DynaOptics promises to bring real optical zoom to thin smartphones next year
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This side of the Samsung K zoom or Panasonic's camera-with-phone-function contraptions, there is no real optical zoom to be found on regular Android phones if your life depended on it. We are not going to wax poetic about the benefits of optical zoom, compared to the fake digital ones we have now, or the cropped "lossless" zoom that some Nokia and Sony handsets offer, as these benefits are numerous. Very often you can't just take a few steps closer to the subject, and need quality zooming done, which is hard to fit in the ultraslim bodies of today's smartphones.

source: DynaOptics
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