The new system is called ALoP, short for All Lenses on Prism. Samsung Semiconductor's announcement, spotted by Redditors and reported by Android Authority, shows how ALoP enables it to rearrange the structure of a periscope camera.

The leak hints at the same 50MP primary rear sensor as last year, but Samsung may replace the 13MP selfie camera with a new 12MP one.

Periscope telephoto camera lenses have revolutionized the optical zoom capabilities of camera phones. A conventional lens, facing front-back in a phone, is limited to around 3x zoom before the length of the lens' optical stack becomes so long that the phone needs an excessively thick camera bump to accommodate it.

Getting extra zoom out of a smartphone camera requires some clever methods, which is where periscope zoom lens technology comes into play. While it can provide that extra reach in