Sony Commercializes World's First 12.25 Megapixel CMOS Image Sensor for Mobile Phones

Sony has announced the development of the finest-yet pixel-pitch 1/2.5" sensor. The 12.2MP CMOS sensor has been developed for mobile phone cameras, but is of a size commonly used in compact and super zoom cameras. The IMX060PQ sensor, which Sony brands 'Exmor' in common with its DSLR CMOS sensors, will also be available incorporated into an F2.8 28mm-equiv lens unit with piezoelectric driven autofocus - relatively advanced for a camera phone module.

[tortella]

just awesome

[Born2BK1NG]

yeah!, its probably gonna happen in 2011, because 3.2 mp cameras are the highest resolution on camera phones, and 3.2 mp is new. KIKIKIKIKIKIKIKIKIKIKIKIKIKIKI KIKI :) :) :) :)

[Kyur4ThePain]

Do you think 3.2MP cameras just suddenly appeared on the market one morning?
Duh. They were announced before being available to the public, just like this one.

[rucky]

Actually they have 5 MP cameras on some Nokia phones for a while now.

[Mukiwa]

5MP camera phones have been around for almost 18 months and you can get 8.1MP phones now...
3.2MP is not quite the pinnacle anymore.

[Senbo]

but i was going to post one of the 3 8MP phones that i know of C905 http://www.gsmarena.com/son...

[Premonition]

Actually samsung has a new phone out thats 8.1 megapixel retails for 650 i believe unlocked.

[Senbo]

the M8800 Pixon http://www.gsmarena.com/sam... and the i8510 INNOV8 http://www.gsmarena.com/sam... are the other 2 that i was talking about. now that i think about it i think the n95 lookalike has an 8mp cam to i just can't remember who made it. (i know it wasn't Nokia)

oh wait no... that is the innov8 it even uses s60....

[BLuKhaos]

Wow that phone is going to kick the nuts off my 7.2 megapixel Sony Cyber shot.

[Yoma]

Samsung and Sony Ericsson do have 8.1 Mpixel cameras

[Shadow Man]

I want one on my one terabyte iphone. :3

[Blood_Spiller]

The noise generated by having such a high MP count on that small a sensor will be atrocious, this is nothing more than a marketing check point to win over the ignorant masses.

[Senbo]

is that CMOS sensors sens light from top to bottom (rolling shutter) wile CCD sensors sens light at the same time(global shutter).

this causes moving objects to come out like this http://web.tiscali.it/rudiv... this is fixed with high shutter speed that cell phones don't have.

in other words even though CMOS sensors have a better image, unless they get higher shutter speeds CMOS sensors should suck on cellphones.

[Bucky Sligo]

High megapixel counts doesn't matter that much once you go over a certain number. It's about the quality of the lens and cellphone lenses are crap!

[anubis12]

wonder how much that will cost?

oled 11 inch? 2000 dollars

[Senbo]

"Mobile Phones Will Shoot Full HD Video in 2012"
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.j...

i just wonder how long they will wait to bring the rest of this stuff out.....even if its a 1GHz CPU

[ElementX]

I heard bad things about Sony phones.

[Kyur4ThePain]

Go figure.

[Jihaad_cpt]

My Last few SE phones have been pretty brilliant. I only wish I had the SE, C905

[thereapersson]

Megapixels are a marketing term, and have only so much to do with image quality. It's mostly reliant on a) the optics, and b) the quality of the sensor itself.

People don't realize this though. They automatically think more megapixels = a better camera.

[xtreampro_REVENGE]

someone on top mentioned something about sony saying a full hd phone will appear in 2012, fistly why is it always '2012', what is so great about this year, hope u guys dont believe in that crap (ya know what) and by the way, the worlds slimest FULL HD phone already exists, its in the LAB's, a fully working prototype, since allot of scientists are 30 years ahead of us, and all new technology is given to militery first..e.g realy good A.I and communicaton devices, and then about 30 years later the public get it