Samsung S7/S7 edge is equipped with Sony's IMX260 sensor, whose pixels dropped from 16 million pixels of the previous generation IMX240 to 12 million, but the unit pixel size soared to 1.4 μ m, adding dual pixels in the SLR（ Dual Pixel  ）Technology, which can greatly improve the focusing speed, including weak light.

Traditional PDAF phase focusing (phase focusing is also called "traditional"...) only 5% of the total pixels have phase focusing ability, but this sensor has two photodiodes on the left and right sides of each pixel, and each pixel has the ability to detect phase light, which can greatly improve the focusing performance of moving objects and weak light.

In addition to IMX260, the current CMOS with Dual Pixel technology also has Samsung's new sensor. In addition to Dual Pixel technology, it also has Samsung's own ISOCELL technology - physical isolation between pixels, which can reduce light crosstalk to improve image quality. The CMOS chip is also used in the sensor and the backplane with 65nm and 28nm processes respectively.

The IMX260 is similar to this sensor in terms of unit pixel size, pixel number and technical characteristics. In addition, foreign countries have just released screenshots of the European version of the S7 edge (G935F), which confirms that it uses ISOCELL. It can be inferred that the S7 edge uses the newly released CMOS.

Just like Note4, S6, and Note5 used IMX240 and S5K2P8 in the past, S7/S7 edge also has dual versions of CMOS, but this time it is rumored that they all use Samsung's own ISP. This time, the imaging difference between the two is clear that CMOS is the best.