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Taiwanese site Digitimes, whose track record regarding rumours is actually quite good, is reporting that OmniVision, the company who makes the CMOS image sensors that go inside the iPhone 3G and 3GS, is expecting to supply with 40 to 45 million cameras for iPhones during 2010. An unknown percentage of those will be 5 megapixel sensors, expected to go in the new iPhone that we’re all expecting to be announced on June 28th. Combine this with the rumour that the next iPhone will have NFC and we’re looking at one serious upgrade. Is it too much to ask for an OLED screen as well?
Note that the iPhone 3GS today uses the Samsung S5PC100 application processor which can do 720p video recording and decoding. If the next iPhone has this new 5 megapixel sensor, which supports both 720p and 1080p video recording and decoding, then you’re looking at HD video possibly coming to an iPhone near you this summer.
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Stefan Constantinescu
Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.
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