Next generation iPhone to have 8MP camera

Next generation iPhone to have 8MP camera. The rumour mill suggests that the next iPhone avatar iPhone 5 will be sporting 8 MP camera.  According to Omnivision, the camera sensor to Apple, recently said 8 MP sensor biggest supplier to Apple said that the Apple may replace 5 MP sensor  with  8MP sensor  that with improved  backslide illumination.

It is worth mentioning here when Apple had made the iPhone 4 it had  increased   the resolution to 5MP   from 3.2 MP in iPhone 3GS also  raised the sensor size from ¼ “  to 1/3”  which had  helped the company in  improving the resolution of the device..

The  new 8MP sensor that was announce by the  Omni Vision is of  1/3.2”  that will improve  the sensitivity of each pixel.

It will provide better  sensitivity, especially in dim lighting conditions. "These advances include a 20 percent improvement in peak quantum efficiency in all color channels, a 35 percent improvement in low-light sensitivity and a 45 percent increase in full-well capacity," the company said.

Moreover, the sensor also help Apple to increase video resolution of the device up to 1080 p.

But the  8 MP sensor that will supposed to be used in iPhone 5  is not a new thing at all. Several high end smartphones  released in recent time have been sporting the camera of the same pixel! But in many cases the  low light sensitivities doesn’t make the  device  great.

OmniVision claims a sensitivity of 864 mV/lux•sec for the new sensor, whereas the sensor in the iPhone 4 is rated at greater than 1300 mV/lux•sec.

Anyway  the  8MP camerawill certainly give something the company can brag  about.