For the primary time, Samsung is predicted to launch a ‘Slim’ variant of its Galaxy S collection telephone. The corporate is rumored to unveil the Galaxy S25 Slim subsequent 12 months. Regardless of being extraordinarily slim, it’s rumored to supply extra zoom attain than the Galaxy S25+, because of Samsung’s new telephoto lens.

Galaxy S25 Slim may use an ALoP telephoto zoom lens

In line with a brand new report, the Galaxy S25 Slim will use Samsung’s All Lens on Prism (ALoP) telephoto zoom lens. This new know-how, designed by the ISOCELL staff, was unveiled final month.

Samsung is planning to showcase it on the CES 2025 expo present flooring in Las Vegas, USA early subsequent month.

In an interview a final week, Samsung’s Younggyu Jeong (Job Chief) and Minook Kim (Employees Engineer) defined how an ALoP lens works. All lenses are positioned on high of a periscope prism. It makes use of a 40˚tilted prism reflection floor and 10˚ tilted sensor meeting.

Typical folded zoom lenses cannot use wider lenses as that may improve its dimension after which it would not slot in a smartphone physique. Compared, ALoP can use wider lenses, as lenses are positioned horizontally to the smartphone’s physique. Thus, it will not improve a telephone’s thickness.

Samsung revealed earlier that its ALoP lens options an F2.58 aperture at a focal size of 80mm (round 3x optical zoom). Compared, the Galaxy S24 Extremely’s typical folded zoom lens options an F3.4 aperture.

Since an ALoP has a wider aperture and has a slim meeting, it could be an ideal match for the Galaxy S25 Slim. The telephone is rumored to be slimmer than 7mm.

Whereas some rumors claimed that Samsung would unveil the Galaxy S25 Slim on the Galaxy Unpacked 2025 occasion, One UI 7.0 hints that we’d have to attend to listen to about it formally. The telephone might be launched someday in Q2 2025.