Samsung’s Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus are full of new stuff: a new display that stretches across more of the phone than ever, a new processor, a new digital assistant. One thing that isn’t really new, however, is the camera on the back of the phone.

SamMobile’s Asif Iqbal Shaik points out that the S8 does appear to use new image chips, but the benefits are hard to pin down. There might be some improvements in low light, but if there’s an otherwise significant difference, Samsung declined to mention it during the S8 event.

That initially feels kind of crazy, right? Much like its competitors, Samsung over the years made an increasingly bigger deal about its smartphone cameras. In the previous four Unpacked events, the company spent anywhere…

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