Cupertino has ordered 3.2MP camera for iPhone
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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April 6th, 2009
I have to admit, I’m quite a fan boy for apple products but I’m pretty let down when it comes to the iphone. They keep talking about releasing new models and new hardware but they’re just reminding me of Google… releasing loads of half assed ‘beta’ products.
Give us landscape keyboard, give us SMS forwarding, give us MSMS… BEFORE releasing new hardware.