16 MP camera modules with low-light friendly ISOCELL technology
aren't the only thing brewing at Samsung for next year's flagships, it
seems. Korean media is reporting on an even more resolute, 20 MP sensor
being in the pipeline.
The source claims that
December 1st marked the date when Samsung's R&D department commenced
a project to develop such sensor from scratch, including the autofocus
actuators and the elaborate lens set. There's no word as to whether this
20 MP unit will also utilize the space-saving ISOCELL tech, or have optical image stabilization.
For
Samsung to adopt OIS in flagships like the S5 would mean at least 50
million suspensions mechanisms for the camera have to be procured, and
there is not nearly enough yield for that yet. Perhaps that is why the
sources mention that the new 20 MP sensor won't be ready until the
second half of 2014, and maybe even reach Samsung flagships in 2015.
As
for next year, the 16 MP ISOCELL sensor is expected to land on 25% of
Samsung handsets sold, which would peg its production to about 90
million units, which probably will include both the Galaxy S5
and the Note 4. There is a big batch of 13 MP and 16 MP Sony sensors
procured by Samsung for next year, say the sources, so we can expect the
megapixel race to be kept alive by the Koreans, in order to offset
somewhat the ever more resolute and elaborate phone cameras with OIS
that the competition is and will be bringing. With the Galaxy S4 and Note 3
Samsung proved it can create a phone that takes very good low-light
pictures even without OIS tech, so we keep out hopes high for the 16 MP
editions next year, too.
source: ETNews via UnwiredView
No comments:
Post a Comment