Phones with Sony LYTIA 700C Sensor

The image sensor is the camera's film: the chip that turns light from the lens into an electrical signal and from there into a photo, and no single part shapes a phone camera's character more.

Sony Semiconductor is the largest supplier of image sensors in phone cameras; IMX and LYTIA are Sony's own product namings. LYTIA is the brand name Sony introduced in recent years and generally marks a newer generation of sensor. Naming a sensor this way is common maker practice; the name itself is an identity, not a measure of quality. The list below shows which models carry it.

What actually separates sensors is not the megapixel count but light-gathering ability: the physical size of the sensor and of its individual pixels, the range of bright and dark it can hold in one frame (dynamic range), and the noise it produces in the dark. Those figures need reading off the model's own spec sheet.