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."

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When will iPhone competitors get a clue?

[Compaqt]

Although I grant that the megapix race is ultimately futile, there are plenty of other specs on which iPhone competitors have settled into a comfortable pattern of too little, too late.

For example, the recently announced Palm Pre 3 will have a resolution of 800x480, which is about half the pixels of the iPhone 4's 960x640.

So when are Android manufacturers and Palm/HP going to start competing with the next iPhone iteration instead of the previous one? I'm leaving Nokia out of this due to utter incompetence and failure to deliver.