The new Galaxy's night camera is the upgrade everyone will notice first

For three generations, low-light photography has been the quiet battleground of flagship phones. This year the gap widened. In a week of side-by-side testing, the most striking change wasn't the spec sheet — it was how little effort the shots required.

Point it at a candlelit table and the sensor pulls detail out of shadow that older devices smeared into noise. The processing is restrained rather than aggressive, holding skin tones and color temperature steady where rivals tend to over-brighten.

Zoom remains the headline trick, but the night gains are what reviewers kept circling back to in our group testing.