After Sony, also Qualcomm believes the smartphones Image Quality will soon surpass the classic system cameras

Back in May Nikkei reported the following statement from Mr Terushi Shimizu:

“We expect that still images will exceed the image quality of single-lens reflex cameras within the next few years.”

This was quite a big and controversial statement. But now also Judd Heape (vice-president of product management for cameras at Qualcomm) made a similar claim in an interview released by Android Authority:

In terms of getting towards the image quality of a DSLR, yes. I think the image sensor is there, I think the amount of innovation that’s going into mobile image sensors is probably faster and more advanced than what’s happening in the rest of the industry.
The processing in Snapdragon is 10 times better than what you can find on the biggest and baddest Nikon and Canon cameras. And that’s why we’re able to really push the barrier on image quality. Because even though we have a small lens and small image sensor, we’re doing many, many times more processing than what’s even capable in a DSLR.

I am not so sure about that. Any pic taken with a 100MP Samsung is literally not the same thing as a 100MP image taken from a medium format camera. You cannot cheat on pixel size physics…

found via Dpreview