Varioptic Announces Optical Image Stabilization For Mobile Phones

Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) has become rather popular on consumer digital cameras, so now maybe it’s time to make the jump, and bring the technology to mobile phones. Varioptic has announced the development of the first liquid lens, the A316S, offering OIS to mobile phones. The A316S doesn’t sport any moving parts, and thus will use very limited power. Aside from being robust, the A316S is able to fit into the typical AF camera module size. The best part is that Varioptic is looking to have manufacturers integrate this technology into camera phones in early 2011, which makes us wonder whether we’ll be seeing OIS as a major marketing point for mobile phones in 2011. Do you think your mobile phone camera needs image stabilization?