[aquila48]

Who on earth needs a 48 megapixel camera???

[Blood of Tyrants]

Comes with a built in backdoor for the Chinese government spies.

[Moonman62]

48 megapixel sensor with a 2 megapixel quality lens.

Megapixels are a marketing gimmick (mainly because customers fall for it).

[Captainpaintball]

If you buy a chinese smartphone you are a f—king idiot.

[yarddog]

I have several old 6 mp DSLR’s. That is adequate for most of my photography. I do wish they had higher ISO capabilities tho.

We are reaching the point where lenses may not be able to utilize all those megapixels.

Still, I wish I could afford one of the new models with their super sensitive sensors.

For cell phones, I doubt the lenses can utilize that much resolving power plus they take up a lot of memory.

[kanawa]

F&G Ping

[ctdonath2]

A huge pixel count lets you focus on getting _a_ picture, then cropping it to what you actually want later (and still have good resolution).

[adorno]

Apple has the iPhones, China has the iSpy phones.

[minnesota_bound]

Apple and Samsung are gonna lose their customers if smartphones can be bought for under $200 while they sell theirs for $1,000

[Swordmaker]

There is zero purpose in having a 48 megapixel camera unless you are intending to blow-up you photograph to an extremely large size. None. It’s pure marketing hype.

The way they "pack in" that many photo receptors is by making them four times smaller than the photo-recptors in a 12 megapixel camera. . . Which meany that unless they have some magical way of multiplying light, four times less light will fall on each pixel to trigger it to release electrons or allow them to pass. There are only two ways to do that, bigger lenses, or fewer lens surfaces (each of which absorbs some light) for image light to pass through. Each correcting lens adds two surfaces. . . as does the cover lens.

So, if you are interested in printing 36” x 22" billboards at ~300 DPI at the perfect resolution of an 8x10, then you might want a 48 mp camera, but then you want one with a huge CCD with full size light receptors you’d field in a DIGITAL SLR, not the itty-bitty ones you can stick in the miniature camera a cellular phone has room to allow. . . so the user can take selfies to post on a 6" screen.

[PLMerite]

I have a 12-Megapixel iPhone 7+ and a 10.2-Megapixel Nikon D80. The Nikon takes better pictures, especially when comparing optical zoom vs. digital zoom.

[CodeToad]

Since professional printing is still done at 2450 DPI, cameras still have a way to go to catch up.