iPhone 5: mount the 8MP Sony Exmor R Xperia Arc

iPhone 5: mount the 8MP Sony Exmor R Xperia Arc - Although many of us looked like a "joke" of Aprils Fools Day last Friday, looks serious and a slip of Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer, indeed, confirmed that Apple would change Omnivision cameras, your provider traditional, Sony Exmor sensor 8MP R Xperia seen in the Arc of the Japanese manufacturer for its upcoming iPhone 5.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Sir Howard Stringer, the then CEO of Sony, said, in what later was treated as a "slip" that the Japanese had put their cameras in the next 5 and iPhone iPads.

The Arc Xperia camera 8 MP in the iPhone 5

This would mean that Apple will switch to another supplier for their devices sensors iOS OmniVision abandoning its traditional partner in this field. The change also means that the next iPhone 5 will not repeat the excellent 5MP CMOS backlit which counts the iPhone 4.

However, Sony is no stranger to these contests of mobile photography, remember its successful line of Cybershot phones with its joint venture with Ericsson, and all the rumors suggest it could be Sony Exmor sensor R, the same assembling and amazed at the Xperia Arc, which would be the next Apple devices up to the 8MP

Supply problems for Japan earthquake

While the motive of "informal" has been given for the change of supplier is the delays suffered by the iPhone 5 production company in Cupertino by the lack of capacity to meet demand OmniVision, not future promises much brighter with Sony, because the same Stringer admitted that its production capacity of components is somewhat compromised after the earthquake and tsunami of last March in Japan which affected 15 of its factories.