It’s the sensor size. Phones will probably never have a sensor large enough to be able to translate a zoom magnification of any decent proportion.
50 mp on a 35mm equivalent sensor, even stacked sensors, is hard to process into a viable noise free image. The sweet spot is somewhere between 24 & 36 mp.
Imagine trying to cram that info into a sensor the size of a literal fingernail. Now, put in a processing system that can sift through that info and compile a viable image in nanoseconds, and still do everything else your phone does.
It’s the sensor size. Phones will probably never have a sensor large enough to be able to translate a zoom magnification of any decent proportion.
50 mp on a 35mm equivalent sensor, even stacked sensors, is hard to process into a viable noise free image. The sweet spot is somewhere between 24 & 36 mp.
Imagine trying to cram that info into a sensor the size of a literal fingernail. Now, put in a processing system that can sift through that info and compile a viable image in nanoseconds, and still do everything else your phone does.