As if rumours of
what the next iPhone will and will not feature were not already reaching silly
proportions, the latest news on the street is that Apple’s next flagship
smartphone will feature a shiny new 12-megapixel camera and improved night time
shooting.
Apple’s iPhone 5S release date is
slated for later this year, and one Vietnamese blog claims to have had a tip
that it will receive a much improved camera when compared to the currently
shipping iPhone 5.
According to a
source working for Wonderful Saigon Electrics (WSE) iPhone fans can look
forward to taking some huge photographs, and this anonymous source could well
be right. WSE makes camera modules for Apple already, so this source could
easily be in the know.
In fact, the Vietnamese blog running
the story, Tinhte.vn, also has form when it comes to predicting what
will and will not make a final, shipping iPhone. Tinhte managed to
confirm that the iPhone 5 would ship with its 8-megapixel camera last year, at
a time when everyone else was predicting a 10-megapixel camera sensor would be
used. Given that track record, and the fact that WSE does indeed already work
for Apple, we’re inclined to give this particular rumor a little more time than
usual.
Whilst the news
should still be taken with a sizeable pinch of salt, using a 12-megapixel
camera would make sense for Apple when companies like Nokia are already pushing
the envelope when it comes to the cameras used in their smartphones. Apple may
need to hit a home run with the next iPhone thanks to increasing pressure from
the likes of HTC and Samsung, pushing the company to pull out all the stops and
offer something truly impressive. A better camera, with improved night time
photo-taking abilities would help to do just that.
The next iPhone
is expected to ship around September time, almost six months after some of its
top competition. Whether that will be a good thing or not remains to be seen,
but with HTC’s One and Samsung’s Galaxy S4 pushing the iPhone hard, it could be
an interesting end of year for iOS.
What do you think, will the iPhone 5S
break the mold and bring forward bigger camera sensors to Apple’s famed
smartphone lineup? [Source]
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