A Twitter profile picture, for example, measures just 400 x 400 pixels, which equals a mere 0.16 megapixels. A Facebook cover photo, at 851 x 315 pixels requires 0.26 megapixels.

Some phones — no Google Pixels to date — do let you unlock the full resolution of their sensors. The iPhone 14 Pro, for example, lets you shoot 48-megapixel photos in Apple's ProRAW format.

Selfies via the front-facing camera are also 13-megapixel resolution, which is a step up from the 10-megapixel camera on the Pixel 9 but dwarfed by the 42-megapixel cameras on the 9 Pros.

The Galaxy S23 Ultra uses pixel binning to combine groups of 16 adjacent pixels, using its 200-megapixel image sensor to capture 12.5-megapixel photos (the math checks out: 200 ÷ 16 = 12.5).

Note – for the most common resolution APS-C cameras, there is little difference in pixel size between a 24 megapixel APS-C camera (with a 3.9 micron pixel size) and a 16 megapixel Micro Four ...

HTC's Bjorn Kilburn, vice president of portfolio strategy, shared that the pixel size on the 16-megapixel Titan II measures 1.12 microns, whereas each of the HTC One X's 8 pixels measures a ...

The Google Pixel 7a is the new champion of mid-range Android phones. With its Google Tensor G2 processor and an upgraded camera array that includes a 64-megapixel main camera, the Google Pixel 7a ...

Samsung is pushing the limits again on pixel sizes with its latest smartphone camera sensor. The ISOCELL JN1 fits 50 megapixels into a tiny 1/2.76-inch format for a pixel size of just 0.64 ...

In some instances, it can mean making individual pixels larger rather than cramming more pixels into a given space. That could improve photo quality, but it won’t increase the number of megapixels.

A digital camera's effective pixel count is its horizontal resolution multiplied by its vertical resolution. An image 2,048 pixels across and 1,536 high has just over 3.1 megapixels; a 2,560 x ...

Sony recently unveiled a smartphone camera sensor with the highest resolution yet, a jaw-dropping 48 megapixels. That's more than the resolution of its $3,000, 42.4-megapixel A7R III mirrorless ...

Gizmag reviews the 50-megapixel monster that is the Canon EOS 5Ds . We spent a couple of weeks using the full frame DSLR to see what that resolution can do.