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Kodak improves phone cameras
KODAK has released a new sensor which it claims can boost the picture-taking power in mobile phones.
According to Reuters, the KAC-05020 Image Sensor is a 1.4 micron, five megapixel device. Currently smaller cameras are stuck with a clunkier, more expensive 1.75 micron pixel design.
A spokesKodak said that it makes it possible to jack more photographic technology under the bonnet of a phone camera.
The announcement does not come from the boffins in the darkroom, but from Kodak's licensing arm which hopes to make up to $350 million a year from royalties and related revenue through 2011. The technology could have been around for ages.
It looks like the 'new' sensor is a reworking of the traditional CMOS pixel design. A CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) sensor is cheap to build and uses less energy than other designs.
It is likely to be in the shops by 2009, Kodak says.
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More pixels is fine, but unless they start adding fancy optics it won' really do too much good. Unless they start selling these phones with a bayonet mount, of course.
It's very questionable whether a better CCD would give better pictures when the lens on a cameraphone is normally the limiting factor.