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Sony CEO Lets Slip That iPhone 5 Will Have 8MP Camera
An anonymous reader writes "During a recent interview with Walt Mossberg, Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer may have inadvertently let it slip that Sony plans to supply Apple with 8 megapixel cameras for the next-gen iPhone. While discussing the Japanese earthquake, Stringer noted that Sony's camera sensor plant in Sendai had been affected and that shipments of 8 megapixel camera sensors to Apple were subsequently delayed."
Who cares?
This is news?
QSXGA
Quad Super Xtended Graphics Array... This is among the most annoying acronyms I know! Ahh!
Easier to just say "5 MP" about that, if it's the resolution others are talking about.
But with that out of my system - I wonder who in their right state of mind are actually going to print either 5 MP or 8 MP photos from a mobile phone on an A3-sized (Tabloid-sized for US citizens) sheet of paper?? It's obvious that they're once again just doing the old Megapixel race for no good reason.
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I wish more people understood this rather than "MOAR MEGGAPIXALS MEENS MOAR BETTAR"
8 megapixels is nothing special, what is interesting is if the sensor can provide good pictures.
You can get great pictures with a 4 megapixel sensor. The noise level of the sensor and the optics is a lot more important.
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Sony provides parts to many different companies as they have so many different companies. If your criteria is to avoid all Sony parts, you may have to avoid electronics altogether.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
I care because I didn't know that Sony supplied components to Apple. Maybe I have just been living in a cave or something....but I didn't know.
And now that I DO know, Apple is on my do-not-buy list.
I hate Sony THAT much. And you should too.
Pshaw. Apple has been every bit as evil as Sony, shitting on their customers since the 2nd gen iPod. If you had any real ethics, you wouldn't have been buying Apple products, either.
Apple has been every bit as evil as Sony
No, they haven't. Not even close.