iPhone fans should be excited that Apple might add a 'periscope' camera lens to iPhones in 2022 - check out these photos taken with another phone's periscope lens

Here's a photo taken with the iPhone 11 Pro Max at 10x zoom, which uses the iPhone's 2x optical zoom lens, as well as digital zoom.

Now here's a 10x optical zoom photo taken with the Galaxy S20 Ultra's periscope lens. It's significantly sharper, and there's way more detail. Future iPhones could really benefit from a periscope lens.

Here's the photo taken without zoom with the Galaxy S20 Ultra to show you how far 10x zoom is, which should give some perspective.

Here's another example. This is the iPhone 11 Pro Max's camera at 10x zoom.

Now here's the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra's photo at 10x zoom. There's no fair comparison to be made here.

Here's the perspective shot without zoom.

The Galaxy S20's Ultra's periscope lens affords it some incredible zoom ranges when combined with artificial digital zooming. It can go all the way up to 100x zoom, but the results are bad.

Here's the photo at 30x zoom, which still isn't great. But it's still something the iPhone 11 phones can't achieve at all.