Market source reports from Taiwanese trade mags are best taken with a grain of salt, if not an entire salt flat–particularly if they concern Apple. That said, Digitimes’s claim today that Cupertino has ordered a bunch of 3.2-megapixel CMOS image sensors for its next-generation iPhone seem entirely reasonable, if only because the device’s current camera is so poor (remember, these days some Japanese cellphones are packing upward of eight-megapixel cameras). The report also lends a bit of heft to rumors that the forthcoming iPhone revision will support video recording. Interestingly, Apple (AAPL) is also said to have ordered a number of five-megapixel sensors. Just what it plans to do with them is unknown. Perhaps, slap them into that e-book tablet it’s developing?
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Market source reports from Taiwanese trade mags are best taken with a grain of salt, if not an entire salt flat–particularly if they concern Apple. That said, Digitimes’s claim today that Cupertino has ordered a bunch of 3.2-megapixel CMOS image sensors for its next-generation iPhone seem entirely reasonable, if only because the device’s current camera is so poor (remember, these days some Japanese cellphones are packing upward of eight-megapixel cameras). The report also lends a bit of heft to rumors that the forthcoming iPhone revision will support video recording. Interestingly, Apple (AAPL) is also said to have ordered a number of five-megapixel sensors. Just what it plans to do with them is unknown. Perhaps, slap them into that e-book tablet it’s developing?
