Sony/Ericsson - 16-megapixel camera for smartphones!?

YES! it's true while iphones, smartphones etc. soon has taken the marked in mid-range priced cameras and video cameras, Sony now presents a 16 mp. sensor for their new smartphones! with new models shiped jan. 2011 We propebly gonna see these new models in march -The sensor's allready made for two models. the small version with 8 mp. and the top of the pop wopping 16 mp sensor -both doing 1080p HD video recording!

(tjeck out this zoom photo... quit amazing!)



"Sony is going big with two new image sensors designed for smartphones and the like. The showstopper is the 16.41-megapixel Exmor R-based CMOS sensor, which is powerful enough to do away with blurry and washed-out cellphone photography, according to the company.

Sony is also revealing a smaller and less powerful 8.13-megapixel sensor, though both have "dramatically improved photographic performance including significantly high sensitivity and low noise" thanks to a back-illuminated sensor. By comparison, the iPhone 4 — much lauded for its ability to take crisp photos — is only sporting a 5-megapixel sensor. It takes more than megapixels to make an image of course, though Sony's Exmor duo has a larger resolution to work with, and both can shoot 1080p HD video.

What you and I can take away from this is that the difference between a cellphone and your average point-and-shoot digital camera — or digital camcorder, for that matter — is going to get a lot more blurred. The 16- and 8-megapixel sensors won't ship until January and April (respectively), and when they do find their way into products they'll boost the price up by quite a bit, at least for a while.

Still, tech moves fast. Cameras and camcorders are going to have to up the ante if they still want a place in one's gadget bag alongside a cameraphone that does a pretty good job already."