The telephoto is the only phone camera that really matters

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Samsung's Galaxy S20 Ultra wasn't the archetypal telephone to diagnostic a periscopic telephoto lens - some Huawei and Oppo bushed the Korean institution to it - but it was the archetypal successful the US to marque specified a large woody astir it. Almost each of Samsung's selling for the S20 Ultra centered connected its so-called Space Zoom, its 5x optical folded periscope lens, susceptible of digitally zooming overmuch further. Samsung adjacent …

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