Samsung 8MP Cellphone Module

The different phone manufacturers have started a real “megapixel race” which has currently arrived at 5 MP.

Now Samsung has just unveiled the world’s slimmest 8MP CMOS measuring a tiny 28mm × 15.3mm × 8.5mm. But with the exclusively for mobile phones designed module, Samsung shows their will to be one of the first to release a cellphone with a 8MP camera.

The new module, which is 10% more compact than current solutions, will have an ISO 1600 sensitivity, anti-shake capability, face detection technology, 1-cm macro and an automated shoot mode that is activated by silly, smiling faces.

This advanced CMOS sensors will go into mass production in Q3/4 this year.