Sony launches multi megapixel phone

Communications giant, ­Sony, has launched a 12.25 megapixel camera module that can be used within mobile phones.

The latest model camera becomes the highest megapixel cameraphone on the market today, is expected to be shipped to Africa soon.

According to Sony, the “IMX060PQ” is a new type 1/2.5 CMOS image sensor “Exmor” for use in camera enabled mobile phones that leverages Sony’s proprietary formation technology to realize the industry’s smallest unit cell size (1.4µm), and the industry’s highest pixel count (12.25 effective megapixel resolution).

Sony also announced the launch of “IMX046PQ”, a type 1/3.2 CMOS image sensor “Exmor” with 8.11 effective megapixel. resolution, and “IMX045PQ”, a type 1/4 “Exmor” CMOS image sensor featuring 5.15 effective megapixel resolution.

Sony will also commercialize “IU060F”, a type 1/3.2 lens module with 12.25 effective megapixel resolution, and “IU046F”, a type 1/3.2 lens module with 8.11 effective megapixels. Equipped with lens and auto focus functions, the two modules are the industry’s smallest and thinnest in their class