Details of the Sony Honami and Togari surfaced earlier this week. The phone is rumored to come with a 16MP or a 20MP Cyber-shot CMOS sensor with Carl Zeiss optics, Xenon flash and a dual LED flash. Now new details of the phone has emerged that reveals that the phone would have a 1/1.6″ Exmor RS stacked sensor with Sony Cybershot G Lens. It would have a Xenon or dual-LED flash, and plasma flash is also being considered.The camera would have a new user interface, new processing algorithm, similar to Sony’s Cyber-shot digital cameras and Superior Auto Scene Recognition feature, an enhancement to the Superior Auto mode in the Xperia Z/ZL.
Here’s an illustration from VR-Zone of the sensor size, compared to the other phones. The Nokia 808 PureView, with a total of 41 MegaPixels packed into a 1/1.2″ sensor has a pixel size of 1.4 microns, and the Nokia N8, achieves a pixel size of 1.75 microns with a 12 megapixel 1/1.83″ sensor. Both the Nokia Lumia 920 and the HTC One have a 1/3″ image sensor, however the Lumia 920 outputs images at 8MP resolution with a pixel size of 1.4 microns, and the HTC One uses large pixels on a 4 megapixel 1/3″ sensor with the pixel size of 2.0 microns. Both the Samsung Galaxy S4 and the Xperia Z uses a 13MP 1/3.06″, smaller than all these phones.
It is not clear at the moment, whether the phone would come with optical image stabilization (OIS) or not. According to earlier rumors the phone would come with a 5-inch 1080p display similar to the Xperia Z, quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor clocked at 2.3 GHz and Adreno 330 GPU, 2GB of RAM, 2700mAh to 3000mAh capacity. It is rumored to launch in China in July and the global launch is expected in August or September.
Source: VR-Zone | Via: Xperia Blog