iPhone 5 could sport super-slim Sony snapper
The PlayStation-spawning gadget giant has lifted the lid on three new back-illuminated CMOS image sensors, which are very compact, meaning they'll snuggle inside slender smart phones. And as Sony makes the 8-megapixel camera sensor that currently resides in the iPhone 4S, speculation abounds that these new sensors could find a home inside Apple's next iPhone.
The most interesting thing about these sensors is that they allow for HDR video capture. High Dynamic Range is a technique that balances the shadows and highlights in an image to preserve more detail, and often make things look a shade more colourful.
You can already take HDR still pictures using the iPhone 4 and 4S, but the ability to make fancy moving pictures is a new proposition entirely. Sony's made a demo video that shows off how this would look.
