Apple's Iphone 5 and Ipod Touch will get better cameras

JAPANESE ELECTRONICS OUTFIT Sony is getting the credit for boosting the camera performance of the upcoming Iphone 5 after its chief boasted that it is helping the fruit themed firm lead the mobile photo snapper market.

Howard Stringer, Sony's CEO was being interviewed by the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg when he said, "It always puzzles me. Why would I make Apple the best camera?"

No one is suggesting that the current Iphone camera is the best one going, particularly Sony, since the cameras on those earlier versions were supplied by OmniVision, so the 'best camera' is likely to refer to that on the Iphone 5, which is as yet unannounced by Apple but is as likely to happen as Christmas.

A camera on the next generation Ipod Nano is also expected, an early hardware model of which has appeared on a Taiwanese Apple fanbois' website.

The page, translated in terrible fashion by Google translate, is mostly nonsense, but images clearly show a camera lens on a mock-up hardware model, but no obvious flash.

Steve Jobs has a long acknowledged distrust of Flash, but the addition of a camera without the additional light burst might not be enough to impress many users. And the expected 8MP camera expected on the Iphone 5 raises questions about why the firm would update its seventh generation music player with a third-class pixel count. µ