List of longest smartphone telephoto lenses

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File:Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra Camera .jpg
Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra with periscope telephoto lens (rectangular opening below the two lenses)

This is a list of smartphones with a telephoto lens that offers a focal length (35mm equivalent) of at least 100mm or "4× optical zoom" with an imaging area equivalent to a 1/3.5″ or larger sensor.

Smartphone lenses are often marketed in terms of "optical zoom"[1] relative to the phone's main camera. For example, 120mm is usually referred to as "5× optical zoom", because the main camera's focal length is commonly around 24mm. However, only a few smartphones, such as the Sony Xperia 1 IV and V, include a true zoom lens that offers continuous optical zoom, whereas nearly all smartphones feature a collection of prime lenses interpolated by digital zoom.

This is not a list of the "best" smartphone telephoto lenses, because many factors affect image quality. For example, the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra's telephoto lens outperforms the S21 Ultra's, despite the S22 Ultra's smaller sensor size and shorter focal length, because of to hardware and software improvements.[2]

In a fixed space, greater focal lengths further constrain the size of the image sensor. Inversely, some manufacturers have recently been able to improve image quality by using a lens with a slightly shorter focal length but a much larger sensor.[3] For example, the Vivo X90 Pro+'s 90mm lens still has a 60% larger effective sensor area when digitally cropped to match the field of view of the X80 Pro's 125mm lens.Template:Efn

This list excludes lenses using sensors smaller than 1/3.5″, which seems to be a lower bound for acceptable image quality (most compact travel zoom cameras use 1/2.3″ sensors, which are more than twiceTemplate:Efn as large).

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Model Sensor
size
Optical
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Focal
length
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Aperture Equivalent
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Pixel
count
Release
year
Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom[4] 1/2.33" 1-10× 24-240mm Template:F/3.1-6.3 - 16 MP 2013
Samsung Galaxy K Zoom[5] 1/2.33" 1-10× 24-240mm Template:F/3.1-6.3 - 20.7 MP 2014
Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra[6] 1/3.2" 10× 240mm Template:F/4.9 Template:F/37 10 MP 2021
Huawei Mate 40 Pro+[7] 1/3.5" 10× 240mm Template:F/4.4 Template:F/37 8 MP 2020
Huawei Mate X2[8] 1/3.5" 10× 240mm Template:F/4.4 Template:F/37 8 MP 2021
Huawei P40 Pro+[9] 1/3.5" 10× 240mm Template:F/4.4 Template:F/37 8 MP 2020
Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra[10] 1/3.5" 10× 230mm Template:F/4.9 Template:F/42 10 MP 2023
Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra[11] 1/3.5" 10× 230mm Template:F/4.9 Template:F/42 10 MP 2022
Sony Xperia 1 VI[12] 1/3.5" 3.5-7× 85-170mm Template:F/2.3-3.5 Template:F/19-30 12 MP 2024
Oppo Find X7 Ultra[13] 1/2.5" 135mm Template:F/4.3 Template:F/26 50 MP 2024
Sony Xperia 1 V[14] 1/3.5" 3.5-5× 85-125mm Template:F/2.3-2.8 Template:F/19-24 12 MP 2023
Sony Xperia 1 IV[15] 1/3.5" 3.5-5× 85-125mm Template:F/2.3-2.8 Template:F/19-24 12 MP 2022
Huawei P40 Pro[16] 1/3.5" 125mm Template:F/3.4 Template:F/29 12 MP 2020
Xiaomi 14 Ultra[17] 1/2.5" 120mm Template:F/2.5 Template:F/15 50 MP 2024
Xiaomi 13 Ultra[18] 1/2.5" 120mm Template:F/3.0 Template:F/18 50 MP 2023
Xiaomi 12S Ultra[19] 1/2.0" 120mm Template:F/4.1 Template:F/22 48 MP 2022
Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra[20] 1/2.0" 120mm Template:F/4.1 Template:F/22 48 MP 2021
Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra[21] 1/2.0" 120mm Template:F/4.1 Template:F/22 48 MP 2020
Google Pixel 9 Pro XL[22] 1/2.5" 120mm Template:F/2.8 Template:F/17 48 MP 2024
Google Pixel 8 Pro[23] 1/2.5" 120mm Template:F/2.8 Template:F/17 48 MP 2023
Google Pixel 7 Pro[24] 1/2.5" 120mm Template:F/3.5 Template:F/21 48 MP 2022
Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max 1/3.2" 120mm Template:F/2.8 Template:F/21 12 MP 2023
Apple iPhone 16 Pro 1/3.2" 120mm Template:F/2.8 Template:F/21 12 MP 2024
Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra[25] 1/2.5" 115mm Template:F/3.4 Template:F/21 50 MP 2024
Google Pixel 6 Pro 1/2.0" 4x 104mm Template:F/3.5 Template:F/19 48 MP 2021
Vivo X100 Pro[26] 1/2.3"[27] 100mm Template:F/2.5 Template:F/14 50 MP 2024
Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra[28] 1/2.5" 111mm Template:F/3.4 Template:F/21 50 MP 2025

See also

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