Samsung announces 12MP and 8MP backlit cameraphone sensors

10 February, 2011
Samsung announced two new camera modules - one 12MP and one 8MP - both of which are capable of capturing 1080p video. The new sensors won't be out for a while, but they will eventually find place in...

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  • Anonymous
  • prp
  • 10 Feb 2011

Same foolish megapixel race, better a 6 megapixel with good result in low light conditions.A good camera has a density of 2mpx/cm sq, this sensor ~80mpx/cm sq .About Apple, they didn't design any cameraphone sensor.

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    • abhi
    • TL5
    • 10 Feb 2011

    AnonD-125, 10 Feb 2011WOW ! this is impressive! that's right, samsung is always c... moreSamsung is not coming out with the best...
    Sony camera modules which have been developed a long time ago r far......... better than these.
    Accept it or not- 'samsung just lost this camera battle'
    The 8mpx camera module of Sony is already available in SE Arc & SE Neo/halon...

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      • AnonD-125
      • Iab
      • 10 Feb 2011

      WOW ! this is impressive! that's right, samsung is always copying the others! but it is coming with the best always! just hope that the samsung galaxy s2 will contain this 8mp! :D go go sammy!

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        • anonymous
        • BrE
        • 10 Feb 2011

        AnonD-619, 10 Feb 2011lol....as usual always after apple apple creates innovatio... moreapple dint innovate nothing, they get other companies to manufacture and create stuff for dem like the apple a4 processor made by samsung, iphone 4 camera by sony ericsson. apple only cons ppl and rips dem off, apple earphones r da crappest earphones, in terms of quality of sound,dn dey sell dem for £60 lol nw dats a rip off

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          • Anonymous
          • iFq
          • 10 Feb 2011

          N8 will remain the best camera phone until Nokia makes better one.

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            • abhi
            • TL5
            • 10 Feb 2011

            Samsung just keeps on copying others...
            Now they r copying Sony which has already made these camera modules a long time ago & sony's camera modules r upto 16 mpx.
            Samsung name in the history will be remembered as a company which never did anything with it's own unique ideas but always kept on copying & following others.

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              • SteelFire
              • m58
              • 10 Feb 2011

              Hmm great! But it will take 2-3 more years for Apple to rich the 12MP in their phones. May be they'll buy it from samsung as they bought the Iphone 4's 1 GHz CPU?

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                • Marc Aurel
                • nx6
                • 10 Feb 2011

                AnonD-538, 10 Feb 20111/3.2"?! Man that's puny! 12 megapixels?! Geez, looks ... more1/3.2" is indeed tiny, but with the current fashion of ever thinner and thinner phones anything larger is pretty much out of the picture. The lens takes more space with larger sensors. I suppose this means that the camera manufacturers can breath a little easier, because a clear quality difference between standalone digicams and phone cameras is going to remain in the foreseeable future. On the other hand for many people the difference is not that significant, because their images are posted at FB in small resolutions.

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                  • Anonymous
                  • 9Eb
                  • 10 Feb 2011

                  AnonD-619, 10 Feb 2011lol....as usual always after apple apple creates innovatio... more@leane, Yeah, both them Sony ones are backlit

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                    • Anonymous
                    • nvJ
                    • 10 Feb 2011

                    AnonD-619, 10 Feb 2011lol....as usual always after apple apple creates innovatio... moreExactly what did Apple innovate?? The use of a sensor that too small? Plausible but I think there were others that failed with too small sensors before Apple failed with theirs.

                    Or are you thinking of something else? Please enlighten me. I cannot come to think a single hardware innovation from Apple's Iphone that others haven't done years before.

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                      • AnonD-538
                      • w0Q
                      • 10 Feb 2011

                      1/3.2"?! Man that's puny! 12 megapixels?! Geez, looks like these guys didn't get the memo: the megapixel race is over for crying out loud!

                      Instead of trumpeting megapixels, why not increase sensor size and brag about it? "New Samsung XXXX with 1/1.6" (Lumix LX-5) sensor!"

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                        • AnonD-619
                        • K2E
                        • 10 Feb 2011

                        lol....as usual always after apple
                        apple creates innovation nd the rest follows..
                        but SE announced 12.1mp nd even 14.1mp sensors waaaay back not sure though they had backlit...

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                          • Anonymous
                          • HIa
                          • 10 Feb 2011

                          Excellent!!!
                          Full HD @ 60fps and HD @ 90fps are too awesome...

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                            • Anonymous
                            • IaH
                            • 10 Feb 2011

                            There's no hurry to use these in Mobiles. The Megapixel race was won by the Pixon. Now we just need better quality lenses. There's no point in going for the 14mp.





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                              • prm
                              • 10 Feb 2011

                              Oh yeah .

                              Go sammy go . you are the best .

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                                • Anonymous
                                • Kg%
                                • 10 Feb 2011

                                1/3.2" is too small, that will cause inaccurate colors and noisy pictures

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                                  • Nokia N8
                                  • nSR
                                  • 10 Feb 2011

                                  When coming new 12mp camera model in the world,what is much more better,what Nokia N8 (and much,much more better what Samsung M8910 Pixon12)?.