Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra leaker just tipped this huge S Pen upgrade

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Update: The Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra's cameras are arguably going to be its most exciting characteristic .

The Samsung Milky way S22 will aim to hold onto Samsung'southward spot nearly the meridian of our our best Android phones list, with the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra in particular sounding like the phone to get based on electric current rumors. Some other new leak about the S22 Ultra gives united states a new reason to anticipate that item model.

According to Samsung leaker Zaryab Khan, the Galaxy S22 Ultra will be getting a major S Pen upgrade, one that could trounce the Apple tree Pencil on the 2021 iPad Pro. As spotted by XDA-Developers, Khan posted a new video that gives some potential insight on what Samsung has in store when the S22 lineup launches in the early function of this year.

Khan claims that the S22 Ultra's S Pen will have unprecedentedly depression latency at a mere 2.8ms. For context, the splendid Apple tree Pencil has a reported latency of 9ms. Compared to the 9ms latency likewise plant on the Milky way Note 20 and Note xx Ultra, that's a major generational improvement for the S22 Ultra.

Across latency, Khan also reports that 12-flake HDR photography would be coming to the Galaxy S22 Ultra. This will allow for vibrant colors when images are displayed on a proper HDR 12 display.

To push the colors that HDR 12 requires, it oftentimes needs a well-lit brandish. Considering the S22 Ultra is also tipped to have an absurdly bright screen at i,750 nits, it makes sense that Samsung could pair these two features together. Khan also predicts that the S22 Plus volition get a super bright brandish also, which was reported by SamMobile in December.

According to Khan, these AMOLED screens will supposedly offer 100% of the CDI-P3 color gamut.

Given that the Galaxy S22 Ultra will likely stick with the 108MP photographic camera found on final year's Galaxy S21 Ultra, combining information technology with HDR 12 photography could mean massive imaging improvements. The iPhone 13 Pro, by comparison, which features x-bit photo capture, could give Samsung a major edge in the smartphone camera state of war. Heck, Samsung may finally overtake Apple on our best photographic camera phones listing.

Either fashion, these are a lot of rumors to unpack. But if these rumors practice turn out to exist accurate, then we're looking at a solid piece of kit from Samsung. At the moment, the Galaxy S22 line is rumored to exist revealed quondam in February.

Imad Khan is news editor at Tom'south Guide, helping directly the twenty-four hours'south breaking coverage. Prior to working at the site, Imad was a full-time freelancer, with bylines at the New York Times, the Washington Post and ESPN. Outside of work, you can find him sitting blankly in front of a Word document trying desperately to write the kickoff pages of a new book.