Samsung talks Dual Pixel: a stepping stone to brave new phone cameras

Samsung is talking Dual Pixel in its newest posting about the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge, and how it arrived to the trailblazing use of the ultrafast focusing technology in its newest phones. It turns out that there has been a lot of soul-searching in Samsung's R&D department on which of some promising camera technologies to shrink and use in a smartphone sensor. One of the candidates, which uses two photodiodes on each pixel for focusing, demonstrated clear advantages not only in focusing, but also in low-light conditions, which is an improvement that all users want, so Samsung decided to stick with that one, and dub it Dual Pixel.