With the SE C905, Samsung INNOV8, and LG Renoir set to duke it out for the 8 megapixel handset throne over the next few months, what’s the obvious next step? More megapixels, of course!
Camera module developer Digital Imaging Systems has bumped it up a notch with the announcement of DIS6931, the world’s first 9 megapixel camera phone module. With its relatively hasty autofocus (<300 ms) and click-to-capture time (<200 ms) and mechanical shutter, I wouldn’t count on seeing these make their way into anything but flagship models within the next year and a half. Commercial availability begins near the end of 2008, so we’ll be probably be seeing these make their way into wallet-destroying handsets by the late-middle of 2009. Now, lets just hope it’s capable of taking a low-light shot without making everyone in the picture look like freaky, blurry smurf people.
[Via UnwiredView]
Great now we can have really high res photographs with a horrible purple tint and diabolical chromatic aberration!
And these will be a waste unless there are good optics to go with the electronics, which I doubt on a camera-phone (unless it’s like a canon rebel with a bluetooth handset, which I have a hard time believing)
But, is it going to really create 9.0MP quality photos? After all, if it has less color resolution with the pictures, then it’s still not worth it to me.