LG’s new optical zoom sensor aims to get rid of the smartphone camera bump

lg optical zoom sensor 1 1 1

Credit: LG Innotek
  • LG Innotek announced a new camera module that will allow 4-9 times magnification.
  • LG claims the size of the optical zoom sensor should be small enough to remove the camera bump on smartphones.
  • LG Innotek is partnering with Qualcomm to fast-track the adoption of the sensor.

Are you sick and tired of seeing camera bumps on smartphones? Apparently, LG is too as LG Innotek has announced a new camera module that it believes could mean the end for camera bumps.

Although LG has long given up on making its own phones, LG Innotek continues to be a major supplier of mobile camera modules. Its latest project appears to be an optical zoom sensor that can shift between two points.

LATEST ARTICLE

See Our Latest

Blog Posts

admin March 25th, 2026

AI initiatives are moving from experimentation to production at an increasingly fast pace: 44% of organizations with multiple gen AI […]

admin March 25th, 2026

Amazon Redshift helped define the first wave of cloud data warehousing. For many enterprises, it became the backbone of analytics […]

admin March 25th, 2026

Why “Talk to Your Data” Is Table Stakes — and Why the Winners Will Build Context, Not Just Models For […]