The Sony 12 Megapixel Image Sensor to Find Use in Sony Camera Phones
By James • Nov 18th, 2008 • Category: UncategorizedThe war in the mobile industry between competitors isn’t something new. For ages, companies have been going at it to see who gets control of market share, giving the consumers the best they can offer, and leading to the evolution of phones. Features such as Radios, cameras, GPRS features, etc. were added and phones had become more of multi purpose devices than just phones. Camera quality is one of the major areas of competition.
Competitors have been at it to bring us the best in cameras, now integrated into phones. It isn’t surprising that we see cameras in phones with 8 megapixels and above, such as the Samsung M8800 Pixon, nowadays. Mobile phone major Sony has taken the war up a notch and is ready to bring 12 megapixel camera phone sensors to the world, due for release in March 2009.
Sony is using the IMX060PQ. That’s an Exmor series CMOS image sensor, with the highest megapixel count in today’s market. It’s priced at a relatively cheap $26 dollars, and has autofocus functions as well. With the IMX060PQ scheduled for release early next year, we should be expecting the new Sony phones with these sensors by mid 2009.
It has been Sony’s dream of delivering to the world a 20- megapixel- camera phone by 2012, and this is indeed the first step, and a big one too, towards achieving that goal. Samsung has also announced similar plans for such phones, so it is likely to be a big showdown between Sony and Samsung for the camera phone market. We can only wait and see who will emerge triumphant.
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