Years have passed since battle in this area, area of mobile phone cameras between Sony's Cyber-shot, Nokia's Carl Zeiss optics and Samsung's Pixon.
Then, Android came. Suddenly, everyone forgot about this very important function of mobile phone and interest moved in other direction. Nokia has played the game a little more, until crash. Other players remained on the bench.
Serious mobile phone photographers igrnored megapixel race. Putting unnecessary high resolution of 8 or 13 mpix to a small sensor size 1/3" led to great expectations and big disappointments.
Then, Android came. Suddenly, everyone forgot about this very important function of mobile phone and interest moved in other direction. Nokia has played the game a little more, until crash. Other players remained on the bench.
Serious mobile phone photographers igrnored megapixel race. Putting unnecessary high resolution of 8 or 13 mpix to a small sensor size 1/3" led to great expectations and big disappointments.
(HTC One X 8mpix cropped, left - Sony Xperia S 12mpix cropped, right)
Resizing to 5 mpix only makes sense. There are lot of artifacts, noise there. Sensor size could not handle passing too much light and making high resolution photos is absolutely unnecessary.
Year 2013 brought fresh players on the court.
Manufacturers have finally started thinking in the right direction. Sony Z1 brings bigger sensor size and resolution, Galaxy Zoom brings first optical zoom. Good and noticed effort from Apple's 5S and HTC One.
Let the battle begin!
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