Phones with 120x AI Ultra Zoom

Phone zoom is three different things and they are easy to confuse: optical zoom magnifies with the lens itself and loses no detail; sensor-crop zoom magnifies by cropping into the middle of a high-resolution sensor and stays clean up to a point; digital zoom enlarges the image and fills the pixels in between by computation.

The 120x in this value is a digital zoom ratio with AI completion on top: a generative model fills the stretched pixels in a way that fits the scene and tidies the edges. The result looks cleaner to the eye, but the added detail is estimated rather than measured — a distant sign may come out readable with letters that are the model's interpretation.