The Samsung Galaxy S22 is expected to launch in early 2022, and already more information is being reported about its huge camera, powerful Exynos chip, design, and faster charging.

As reported by 9to5Google, according to prominent leaker Ice Universe, both the Samsung Galaxy S22 and Samsung Galaxy S22 Plus will feature the Samsung ISOCELL GN5 camera sensor. This sensor is an impressive 50MP and is expected to perform well in low-light conditions.

Also, according to Ice Universe, the S22 will feature the powerful Exynos 2200 chip with AMD graphics. Also, GSMArena reports that the S22 will not have an under-display camera like the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3.

It would not be too surprising if the Galaxy S22 uses Samsung's latest 50MP camera sensor; the GN05 was announced earlier this month alongside the 200MP ISOCELL HP1.

The Samsung Galaxy S21 used the GN1 sensor last year; the GN2 was announced in February, and a handful of Xiaomi phones use this sensor; with the S22, Samsung seems to think the GN3 and GN4 are a big enough deal to skip the naming convention .

Samsung advertises that the GN5 has super-fast autofocus thanks to the Dual Pixel Pro feature. This works by splitting pixels both horizontally and vertically so that the sensor can recognize changes in patterns regardless of orientation. The Front Deep Trench Isolation (FDTI) design also provides better light absorption and pixel crosstalk suppression. This means better and cleaner images, even at night.

GN5 also uses Samsung's deep learning 2PD remosaicing algorithm.

And finally, the GN5 boasts Tetrapixel technology, which combines four adjacent pixels to act like one large 2.0 μm pixel. According to Samsung, larger pixels mean brighter 12.5MP images with less noise.

Apart from the powerful camera technology that Samsung is reportedly putting into the S22, we are told that the S22 will not have an under-display selfie camera. Right now, the under-display camera technology is still in its infancy, and given the results we saw with the Galaxy Z Fold 3, it is only really suitable for low-resolution video calls.

We have seen similar lackluster results with other under-display camera phones like the ZTE Axon 30. In fact, right now, the under-display camera is the most unappealing feature on this year's flagships.

According to Ice Universe, the Galaxy S22 Ultra will offer 45W of charging, faster than the S21 Ultra's 25W charging speed. It is not clear if the Galaxy S22 and Galaxy S22 Plus will stick to 25W charging.

The OnePlus 9 Pro boasts 65W charging and the new Xiaomi 11T Pro boasts 120W charging and can fully charge a phone in just 23 minutes.

According to Ice Universe, the S22 will feature the Samsung Exynos 2200 chip. It is unclear if this is for the international market or if Exynos is coming to the U.S. as a replacement for Qualcomm's Snapdragon line. The cool thing about the Exynos 2200 is that it is reportedly being built in partnership with AMD and its Radeon RDNA 2 GPU.

Geekbench 5 scores for the Exynos 2200 are already available on the Internet, and according to sister site Tom's Hardware, it scored 1,073 for single-core performance and 3,389 for multi-core. Compared to Apple's A14 Bionic, which scored 1,596 for single-core and 3,944 for multi-core, the Exynos 2200 still lags behind. But keep in mind that this is an early prototype from Samsung and may not represent the final product.

In any case, if Samsung wants to make a SoC that can compete with Apple, especially the new powerful A15 Bionic in the iPhone 13, the company will need to seriously push its chip design to the next level. The iPhone 13 benchmark allegedly draws high frame rates in demanding graphics simulations.