2011 iPhone to Sport 8-Megapixel Camera Sensor From Sony?

[diogenis]

There are very specified limits of what we can do and what we can't do.
These cameras are dSLRS, means they can easily change lenses. And these lenses have nothing in common with the 1mm plastic(?) thing that is pasted on a magnetic coil to move and focus.
Poking deeper on a shot taken out of these tiny sensors will only result in less details as CoC increases.
Make the damn thing more practical. give it IR leds to night shots, faster gpus to capture video, things that mean something and are supposed to help as a carry always and everywhere camera.

 

[MacRigor]

8 megapixels is about as high as you can go in a micro camera/cell phone. After that, the chips just can't handle the noise of a tiny little lens and you "overload" the image making a very crappy picture. Only your girlfriend tells me size matters. BIG RUMOR: The 2011 iPhone will have two lenses - one facing each direction. In fact, the screen side may actually be "hidden" in the screen. You don't see the lens facing back at you. Cool, no?

 

[macnews]

At first glance, I thought the date was wrong on this... 2011? Really? We can barely get rumors right a few months before hand and now some guy is trying to do a rumor a year+ out - don't believe it. That is foregoing all the other good points about an 8 megapixel cam in a cell phone.

 

[tdream]

So many fanboys, so little time. They argue that less is more until the day that 8megapixels arrives and then hail it as second coming...

There's this thing called flash and autofocus, maybe you've heard of it before... noise? LOL have you actually looked at a low light 3GS photo in full resolution? People only post photos in bright light conditions and squash the size down until it looks good, then have the nerve to lambast higher resolution phone cameras, just LOL.

 

[batistuta]

Expect more what? Graininess and fuzziness? 3.2mp is all a tiny lens like the iPhone camera needs/can handle. Anything more is just marketing hype and will lead to poorer image quality. 5mp I can maaaaybe see, 8mp is just ridiculous.

Now if they were to improve the lens somehow...hard to do in such a small form factor, and much more expensive.

What I mean is that the quality of pictures from the iphone is not exactly state of the art amongst smartphones, and I don't mean quality by comparing the number of pixels!
At the price I would expect the iphone to perform top$ in every respect, but I suspect this is not Apples way of doing things. Sure they will up the sensor to 5mp, but the screen, UI and apps are probably more important.

 

[diogenis]

So many fanboys, so little time. They argue that less is more until the day that 8megapixels arrives and then hail it as second coming...

There's this thing called flash and autofocus, maybe you've heard of it before... noise? LOL have you actually looked at a low light 3GS photo in full resolution? People only post photos in bright light conditions and squash the size down until it looks good, then have the nerve to lambast higher resolution phone cameras, just LOL.

Don't forget it IS a phone. It's a device invented to communicate with people. There are limits, limits you can't cross. If you want a better camera just buy one. There is also a reason they exist.
The iphone will never be as good as a http://www.pomegranatephone.com/ is.

 

[crossifixio]

if you want to take good pictures then use a good camera and dont use a phone! A camera phone is a camera phone!

 

[okrelayer]

This quote is paraphrased but.. the best camera is the one thats with you.

I have a wonderful point and shoot canon that i use when i go on planned trips out of state, or special occasions. But every day i have my iPhone on me, ready to take a pic of anything as it happens.

 

[firewood]

By the time they release in 2011 .. other phones will be 12-megapixel.

And 12 megapixels behind any tiny pin-hole sized lens that can fit in a thin cell phone will produce worse photos. Not sure what the optimum pixel count is behind those pin-hole lenses, but it's very likely far less than 12 megapixels.

 

[peperoni]

In cellphone world the amount of megapixels do matter! I know it's a camera as well as any other dedicated camera, but what's different is that the cam modules for cellphones are constantly evolving in much faster rate than in standalone cams. The most uptodate and best image quality cellphone cam modules just happen to 12mpix modules at the moment. Do we need that much on a cellphone? Atleast I don't, I was more than satisfied with 5mpix, but if you want to have the best images you need to buy one of the 8 or 12 mpix modules. 2/3.2mpix modules are made budget phones in mind these days.

To the topic, I don't think I care what's going to happen to iPhone in 2011 just yet when we haven't even seen the 2010 model yet.

 

[PstLMac]

8 to Video

Maybe it's a shared 8 Megapixels for front & rear camera / video capability for zooming and tracking...

Just a thought.