On a smartphone, why is a telephoto camera better than a wide angle with more megapixels?

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The new Samsung galaxy phone has a 200MP wide angle camera and a 10MP 10x optical zoom camera. Is it not better to take a picture with the 200MP camera then zoom in on it 10x then get a 20MP picture, than use the 10MP camera? I’m trying to wrap my head around this.

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The 200 megapixel camera is effectively upscaling a much smaller image to have more pixels. If you’ve ever zoomed way in on a smartphone picture and noticed that it starts to look almost like one of those ai paintings this is why. It makes the overall image look very sharp but the finest details aren’t actually being captured perfectly

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