Sony shows off 16.4MP and 8.1MP camera sensors for mobiles

07 October, 2010
If the recent news about the Altek Leo and the Panasonic Lumix phone are any indication, the megapixel wars are far from over. Sony is showing of two new camera modules, one of which has 16.4MP resolution...

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  • Anonymous
  • sxt
  • 08 Oct 2010

[deleted post]So who cares bout your n0kia ph0nes?

,maybe old k810 will shut down your e71 and 5300..
Theres n0thing 2 prove, 16.4mp is 16.4mp..gets?

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    • Anonymous
    • Mty
    • 08 Oct 2010

    Considering that the n8s photo sensor is over 1.5 times the size of this 16mp units, i'ld tell you for sure, its a piece of crap. Just a marketing gimmick. The image would be 16mp large alright but it won't contain as much detail as the n8. The n8s remains to beat as far as mobile cameras units go.

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      • Anonymous
      • BSi
      • 08 Oct 2010

      sony is t he best....make.believe

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        • jc
        • t7$
        • 08 Oct 2010

        Dave, 07 Oct 2010Samsung brought it out first so they win so ha SONY fails again." brought it out first " but sony is the first who advertise .. :p

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          • JÚNIOR REIS
          • P4K
          • 08 Oct 2010

          sony ericsson parade continues on time!

          not present time there is nothing new!

          just put more in a 1/2.8 image sensor, that

          incredibly is still less than the integrated to your camera phone
          top line!

          1/2.8 for over 16 megapixels!

          it is quite absurd !

          pixon 12 uses a sensor for image 1/2.5 for 12 megapixels!

          the n8 use a spectacular image sensor of venus engine with panasonic
          size 1 / megapixels 1.83 for 12 megapixels !

          philosophy with that know when the sony ericsson debunked the n8 the throne best western world camera phone??

          answer: never!

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            • jasdeep
            • up9
            • 08 Oct 2010

            sony is the best electronics company in this whole universe.even aliens frm other planet can't hav such company.we r lucky that we r using sony products.

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              • Anonymous
              • Tr8
              • 08 Oct 2010

              Crazy World, 08 Oct 20105 MP WIth Iso & Xenon Flash Is Enough For Taking a Dece... moreWell its like saying you eat 3 meals a day, why eat snacks in between? Sony is showing the world what they can do, they are hungary for power. I bet later this year or next year, another phone company will have a post 12mp phone.

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                • Jon SWE
                • mhB
                • 08 Oct 2010

                Crazy World, 08 Oct 20105 MP WIth Iso & Xenon Flash Is Enough For Taking a Dece... moreYou are the one who dont get it.
                Obviosly the lens on N8 is good enough to capture well above those 5MP you talk of.
                So there is a gain in detail.
                You might ask what those details are for.
                Well for an A4 photo quality print you need more than 8MP... so 5 wont cut it. For photo size its enough, however.

                But in a device lacking optical zoom, high resolution picture can mean that you can zoom in on details (sometimes done by croping in the phone itself, while taking the picture... But I would prefer some kind of feature that tags the area and leaves it up to the user to later decide if they want the crop or the full size image).

                Sure mobiles cant match the quality of a really good point and shooter camera. Or at least not as long as there is some ongoing development in that area.
                But they can offe good enoug quality for the average consumer.
                So its very likely that mobiles can kill the market for point and shooters.

                What you can do with 5MP is irrelevant as long as you can do more with 12 or 16 megapixels.

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                  • Anonymous
                  • Pf$
                  • 08 Oct 2010

                  60fps?

                  Slow motion?

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                    • JahCre
                    • kbh
                    • 08 Oct 2010

                    Crazy World, 08 Oct 20105 MP WIth Iso & Xenon Flash Is Enough For Taking a Dece... moreok hater!

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                      • Crazy World
                      • nG1
                      • 08 Oct 2010

                      5 MP WIth Iso & Xenon Flash Is Enough For Taking a Decent Photo . no need for 12 or 16 etc.....mobile phones for communicating not for taking photos or video ..even if they made 20 MP with 1080i full Hd 3d video recording ..it will never ever match the real camera or camcorder.beleive me people god gave us abrains ..try to use it and dont blelive this sh...xxx!!

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                        • U of S
                        • x2A
                        • 08 Oct 2010

                        SE 2010, 07 Oct 2010 dude it's true when people say that the mp number is not ... more
                        Your comment is the best that I have read in this forum. Very logical and reasonable, thank you MR. SE 2010 :)

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                          • Anonymous
                          • TC}
                          • 08 Oct 2010

                          back illuminated is the main point people !

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                            • JahCre
                            • Rc0
                            • 08 Oct 2010

                            BrianAW, 08 Oct 2010How about satio video shooting? Suc k.. As I said..sony ... moreok hater!

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                              • BrianAW
                              • ib3
                              • 08 Oct 2010

                              SE 2010, 07 Oct 2010 dude it's true when people say that the mp number is not ... moreHow about satio video shooting? Suc k..

                              As I said..sony cyber shot series phone only used the sony cyber shot ui..useless..

                              Again,people will bored when see the function,ui,software is same between the cyber shot and walkman phone..juz likes the same phone with differend type of ear phone..

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                                • BrianAW
                                • ib3
                                • 08 Oct 2010

                                Wasted..not useful..

                                We want great optics likes Carl Zeiss optic lens from NOKIA..juz imagine if that 16.4MP Carl Zeiss optics..thats not same!!!

                                Everybody know that se cyber sh0t series is not use sony sensor,but only use sony cyb3r sh0t ui..

                                ya,cyber shot ui..lmfao..

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                                  • Kyle
                                  • j9%
                                  • 07 Oct 2010

                                  SE always make desirable phone hardware, but software department sucked. Android 1.6 still, I am waiting for my Xperia x10a update to 2.2 (which is never....)! I should have get HTC instead

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                                    • JahCre
                                    • Rc0
                                    • 07 Oct 2010

                                    Koss, 07 Oct 2010@Anonymous Sony is going to sell those sensors to Nokia si... moreTypical hater as i said!Bout SE died long time ago.WAKE UP PLZ!!!

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                                      • Koss
                                      • nDW
                                      • 07 Oct 2010

                                      @Anonymous
                                      Sony is going to sell those sensors to Nokia since their Cellphones only sells in Japan! The rest of the world thinks SE died a long time ago!

                                      I don't whink that the rest of the world thinks Se died a long time ago... probably you and a small procent of people think that.

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • kbe
                                        • 07 Oct 2010

                                        Sony is going to sell those sensors to Nokia since their Cellphones only sells in Japan! The rest of the world thinks SE died a long time ago!