This is a list of
smartphone
A smartphone is a portable computer device that combines mobile telephone and computing functions into one unit. They are distinguished from feature phones by their stronger hardware capabilities and extensive mobile operating systems, whic ...
s with a primary
camera
A camera is an optical instrument that can capture an image. Most cameras can capture 2D images, with some more advanced models being able to capture 3D images. At a basic level, most cameras consist of sealed boxes (the camera body), with a ...
that uses a 1.0-type (“1-inch”)
image sensor
An image sensor or imager is a sensor that detects and conveys information used to make an image. It does so by converting the variable attenuation of light waves (as they pass through or reflect off objects) into signals, small bursts of c ...
or larger. However, as of February 2024, there are no smartphones that use a sensor larger than 1.0-type.
The first
camera phone
A camera phone is a mobile phone which is able to capture photographs and often record video using one or more built-in digital cameras. It can also send the resulting image wirelessly and conveniently. The first commercial phone with color cam ...
to feature a 1.0-type sensor was the
Panasonic Lumix CM1
The Panasonic Lumix DMC-CM1 is a large-sensor camera smartphone announced by Panasonic on 15 September, 2014 and released in December of the same year in Germany, France and Great Britain only. It was also released in the USA later, in summer 201 ...
in 2014. Seven years passed before another phone featured such a sensor. These early examples used sensors with a
3:2 aspect ratio that were originally designed for standalone
digital camera
A digital camera is a camera that captures photographs in digital memory. Most cameras produced today are digital, largely replacing those that capture images on photographic film. Digital cameras are now widely incorporated into mobile devic ...
s. In 2022,
Sony
, commonly stylized as SONY, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. As a major technology company, it operates as one of the world's largest manufacturers of consumer and professional ...
introduced the 1.0-type IMX989 sensor (co-developed by
Xiaomi
Corporation (; ), commonly known as Xiaomi and registered as Xiaomi Inc., is a Chinese designer and manufacturer of consumer electronics and related software, home appliances, and household items. Behind Samsung, it is the second largest m ...
) with the
4:3 aspect ratio that matched existing smartphones. Every phone in the list since 2022 features the IMX989 or its successor, the LYT-900.
Also note that the
Sony Xperia PRO-I does not qualify for this list, because it only uses 60% of its 1.0-type sensor. The latest
Leica
Leica Camera AG () is a German company that manufactures cameras, optical lenses, photographic lenses, binoculars, rifle scopes and microscopes. The company was founded by Ernst Leitz in 1869 (Ernst Leitz Wetzlar), in Wetzlar, Germany.
...
Leitz and
Sharp
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* SHARP (helmet ratings) (Safety Helmet Assessment and Rating Programme), a British motorcycle helmet safety rating scheme
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Aquos R series phones do qualify because, despite using only 94% of their 1.0-type sensors
(with
4:3 aspect ratio), they maintain the same
crop factor
In digital photography, the crop factor, format factor, or focal length multiplier of an image sensor format is the ratio of the dimensions of a camera's imaging area compared to a reference format; most often, this term is applied to digital c ...
(2.7) and
diagonal
In geometry, a diagonal is a line segment joining two vertices of a polygon or polyhedron, when those vertices are not on the same edge. Informally, any sloping line is called diagonal. The word ''diagonal'' derives from the ancient Gree ...
(1″) as a 1.0-type sensor with
3:2 aspect ratio, since that is the
image circle
The image circle is the cross section of the cone of light transmitted by a lens or series of lenses onto the image plane. When this light strikes a perpendicular target such as photographic film or a digital camera sensor, it forms a circle ...
for which their lenses were originally designed.
See also
*
List of longest smartphone telephoto lenses
This is a list of smartphones with a telephoto lens that offers a focal length (35mm equivalent) of at least 100mm or "4× optical zoom" with an imaging area equivalent to a 1/3.5″ or larger sensor.
Smartphone lenses are often marketed in t ...
*
List of large sensor fixed-lens cameras
This is a list of digital cameras with a fixed (non- interchangeable) lens and a 1.0-type (“1-inch”) image sensor or larger, excluding smartphones and camcorders. Many of these cameras are also known as high-end point-and-shoot cameras or ...
*
List of superzoom compact cameras This is a list of superzoom compact cameras, sometimes also called as superzoom 'travel' compact cameras.
See also
* Point-and-shoot camera
* Digital single-lens reflex camera
* Camera phone
A camera phone is a mobile phone which is able t ...
*
List of lightest mirrorless cameras
This is a list of the lightest and smallest mirrorless digital cameras ever released with an interchangeable lens mount, excluding smartphones and action cameras, sorted by weight including battery and memory card.
Nearly all t ...
Notes
References
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