It's easy to assume that more resolution means a better camera, but that's not always the case. Fortunately, if we believe this Galaxy S22 rumor, it looks like Samsung won't fall into that trap.

According to rumor expert @FrontTron, Samsung's Galaxy S22 and S22 Plus will feature a 50MP main camera lens, plus a 12MP telephoto lens (3x zoom) and ultra-wide lens on the side. However, Tron states that this rumor should be taken with a grain of salt.

Samsung's Galaxy S21 and Galaxy S21 Plus have a 12MP main lens and an ultra-wide lens, plus a 64MP telephoto lens. If this rumor is true, one might assume that the S22's camera has been "downgraded" so to speak, but this is not necessarily the case.

Samsung already has a 50MP ISOCELL GN2 camera sensor with larger 1.4μm size pixels. Larger pixels mean more light, which may improve overall image quality, especially in low-light conditions.

This sensor was revealed in February, and it is unclear if it will be used in the Galaxy S22 series. This is assuming that the rumor is true and that both models will indeed feature these specific camera specs.

We must also consider the growing use of computational photography, which uses specialized software to process images in the fraction of a second between pressing the shutter button and the image being saved.

This has worked to great effect on both the iPhone and Google Pixels. Reducing the resolution of the camera, if that is indeed the case, could be the first step in Samsung taking Computational Photography more seriously.

Of course, we are talking here only about the S22 and S22 Plus, not the S22 Ultra. Presumably the S22 Ultra will have a completely different camera array, with additional lenses and features like the Galaxy S21 Ultra released earlier this year.

It is unclear what that camera will include, but whatever the S22 rumors, the S22 Ultra may not be the easiest upgrade. However, I do hope Samsung keeps the quad-lens camera setup with two optical telephoto lenses.

In any case, if this rumor proves to be true, we will know that Samsung is not just playing the numbers game with phones; extreme numbers like 200MP and 150MP have been thrown around in rumors and there have been rumors that Samsung would do something like this. But so far, the most we've seen on the Galaxy S is the 108MP lens on the Galaxy S21 Ultra and S20 Ultra.

We'll have to wait and see what happens, but we hope Samsung understands that big numbers don't always work out. After all, our tests show that the best camera phone is the iPhone 12 Pro Max.