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Aptina producing cellphone image sensor that shoots HD video

by Laura June posted Nov 22nd 2008 @ 2:18AM

It sounds like your camera phone's video capabilities may get exponentially more awesome in the near future. Aptina -- a division of Micron that manufactures one out of every three sensors for mobile phone cameras -- has announced the high resolution 5 megapixel MT9P013. There are better sensors out there already, but this one will also be able to record 720p HD video at 60 frames per second, and 5-megapixel video at 15fps. The sensor is going into production in January of 2009, according to Aptina, so it shouldn't be too long before we start seeing much better quality amateur films out there in the world.

[Via SlashGear]

Tears are shed on the cameraphone's history

by Brian White posted Feb 7th 2007 @ 3:17AM

We actually shed a few tears in reading a recent feature about the all-too-recent history of the ubiquitous cameraphone. Yes -- it's hard to find even a mid-tier wireless handset these days without a simple VGA sensor on board, even though most entry-level cellys don't have any cam at all. Where have we come from the days of the Sony Ericsson T610 to the Sanyo SCP-5300 -- remember those early cameraphones? Image quality has steadily (but slowly) improved and now your camera (at least one of them) is with you at all times -- and all facets of life are instantly photographable and can be pumped to the net right from the handset. Good times.