Mingchi Kuo, an analyst with KGI
Securities, believes that Apple would include an improved front facing
camera in the next iPhone, capable of shooting at HD resolution
In a note to investors, Kuo said that
Apple is expected to make "quite a few essential adjustments" to the
next iPhone, the most notable of which is of course the bigger screen.
Kuo, much like almost everyone else, expects Apple to bump up the iPhone's screen size to 4 inches, bringing the device's resolution to 1,136 x 640 pixels.
On a screen that large, the current front facing camera's already
unsatisfactory VGA resolution output would look even worse, which might
have pushed Apple to upgrade the camera.
In addition to being upgraded, the front
facing camera would also be repositioned to the center, which is in
line with the leaked front panel images and blueprints we've seen earlier.
Kou believes that Apple would stick to
the current 8 megapixel resolution of back camera, and instead improve
the camera's aperture range from f/2.4 to f/2.2. Apple has, time and
again, pointed out the that capturing light plays a much more important role than the megapixel count when shooting images, and it seems the company intends to do exactly that.
The rear camera's upgraded specs, as
shown in the chart above, would present "unprecedented challenges" for
suppliers, especially when dealing with Apple's scale. Sony, with its new 8MP CMOS sensors,
would most probably supply the next iPhone's rear cameras. The new CMOS
sensors would allow the iPhone to become thinner, while maintaining or
even improving the image quality.
Via Apple Insider
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