When it comes to the new features Apple purportedly is planning to bake into its third generation iPhone, there is no shortage of rumor, speculation and shear fantasy circulating ’round the Web. Today, one of the more fertile sources has added to this canon with a report fleshing out one of the more likely things on designers’ shortlist of features to make the cut.

DigiTimes writes that OmniVision has won an order from the mothership for 3.2 megapixel CMOS image sensors, which are to be used in the next generation iPhone. The write up goes on to note that the Taiwanese OEM has also won an order for 5MP censor to be used in an Apple product being readied for next year.

Apple’s current iPhone camera is a 2MP model, though most of the complaints about this aspect of the handset center on the poor quality of the lens, lack of zoom and no autofocus rather than the number of pixel per se.

What else might make the cut?

• Apple’s next-gen iPhone to have video camera

• Analyst predicts new scaled down iPhone

• A patent for iPhone biometric sensors

• Next iPhone likely to be faster

It’s a pretty safe bet that the next-gen iPhone will have a better camera, but what else do you think will end inside Apple’s zeitgeist defining handset?

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iPhone features Easter egg hunt

Camera equipped iPods an all but done deal…

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Cameras coming to the iPod touch, iPod nano?

iPhone 3G macro — shoot close and quite sharp

Entry was posted on Friday, April 3rd, 2009 at 12:04 pm under International, News, Rumor, iPhone.  Print This Post

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