Do you want a smartphone that takes beautiful photos? You will have to prepare your wallet for an extra from 2024
The world of smartphones has seen a slowdown in sales also due to the little innovation of the last years. For this reason, manufacturers of smartphones and their components have tried to increasingly improve them performance of products: they have more powerful processors, larger batteries and even higher resolution photographic sensors in the face of higher costs.
Samsung is well aware of this and being also one of the manufacturers of sensors for smartphone cameras, as reported by some sources, it has notified other smartphone manufacturers that will increase prices of its sensors by 25% with the start of the new year.
The increase in prices of Samsung’s sensors should force manufacturers who use them to increase the price of their deviceswhich will become more burdensome especially on those premiumbecause they use more expensive sensors than low- and medium-range ones.
Of course, Samsung is not the only manufacturer of photo sensors, but there are also Sony and OmniVision who compete for the sector. There most manufacturers they turn to the Japanese company for their top of the range products, but the choice of the Korean company can change the scenario.
Indeed, Samsung’s price increase may remain a isolated caseleaving the behavior of the competition unchanged with their respective pricing policies, or can trigger a chain mechanismso the others could also move in the same way and raise prices, which would mainly be reflected on top-of-the-range devices.
So, we’ll see what will the reaction be of Sony and OmniVision e what repercussions will have on the market: if on the one hand premium smartphones continue to sell despite the progressive increases in sales prices, on the other there are medium and medium-high range smartphones that cannot see their price increased further, so the risk is to see gods compromises on the camera sector in the next generations of the latter to keep their prices unchanged.
