with or without HP9, X8 Ultra edy tapau samsung phones in terms of photography
their HP* sensors made useless with samsung's stupid post processings.

plus Sony Lytia is better than HP* now. X8 Ultra packs 3 Lytia sensors (main 1", telephoto x2), u say tapau or not?

coming from a person who is still using s23u

sure LYT600 is a rebrand of ol' IMX882...a 2024 sensor lol. it's not considered old.
hp9 can be 200MP, 400MP or whatevs and samsung hasn't used it in their flagship phones. point is even if samsung uses it, it'll still gonna be janky because of their over-processing tendencies + down the line with updates it may get worse, same tales towards s23u where they nerfed the software processing of 10x telephoto to the points it becomes hazy. all that for upselling 5x telephoto.
and LYT-900 (or some says a "IMX989" refresh), with its lower 50MP res inside a 1" sensor, is still better than samsung hp1/2 regardless of how many MPs it can squeeze into the 1/1.3" size, just like how a 35mm 8 year old Sony CMOS sensor at 24MP will absolutely murder what LYT-900 can spit out

I used samsung since 2015, note 4 until now...I reserve the right to criticize them because they start to become lazy like apple in these few years. ppl edy getting better displays, better battery, better charging, better camera but samsung is following apple's footsteps