The much rumoured Samsung Galaxy S25 Slim has been claimed to be measuring less than 7mm thick. While this sounds pretty impressive, the bigger question will be if there is enough space to fit in all the internal components, particularly bits of the camera. A leakster has since claimed that the slim model of the next flagship will not only feature a periscope camera despite its thinness, it will also be using new tech by the South Korean tech giant.
This claim comes from @Jukanlosreve on X, citing analysis firm Meritz Securities. Specifically, the claim is that the Galaxy S25 Slim will make use of the company’s own ISOCELL All Lenses on prism (ALoP) tech. This was officially revealed back in November, which sees the structure of lens and prism getting rearranged to shrink the space that the setup takes.
Conventional periscope camera setups on phones sees the lenses being placed in between the image sensor and the prism. Samsung says that this limits the size of lenses can can be used, as wider lenses are needed to produce brighter images.
What ALoP does is move the lenses to the top of the prism instead, allowing for larger diameter lenses to be used, while making the camera module shorter. Counter-intuitively, the company claims that this change “does not affect the camera module shoulder height”.
Even if the claim is true though, Samsung will probably have to reduce the height of the camera module further if it were to use this tech on a phone that’s claimed to be under 7mm thick. Of course, it remains to be seen if this is something that will be used on the Galaxy S25 Slim to begin with.
(Source: @Jukanlosreve / X, Samsung)
