Samsung has proven that the megapixel race between digital cameras and cellphone manufacturers isn’t over yet, releasing an 8.4 megapixel CMOS sensor that will most probably be incorporated into the latest batch of cellphones worldwide within a year’s time. Despite 10 megapixel camera phones being around for quite some time now, none of these sensors come in the svelte size of this new addition. Samsung claims the new CMOS chip will be widely adopted thanks to the high signal-to-noise ratio and low power consumption, using just 10% the power when compared to CCD sensors that produce the same image quality. Hopefully the lenses on these new handsets will be of better quality, else the number of megapixels won’t matter in the end.
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