One of Sony’s most profitable areas is its image sensor sector. The company has provided camera units for a large number of high-profile flagship smartphones for various manufacturers, including HTC, LG and even Samsung over the course of the past 5-years. That’s why it comes as no surprise to learn that the firm’s brand new deep-focus dual-lens camera technology will be making its way to several products from “major smartphone players” later this year.
This disclosure came during Sony’s Q3 2015 Results Earnings Call. Here’s a short extract from the conversation where Chief Financial Officer of Sony Corporation, Kenichiro Yoshida, reveals the new direction for Sony’s camera development division:
Analyst: “Do you have thoughts from dual camera adoption over the next one to two years and the impact from some of these operations?”
Kenichiro Yoshida (Chief Financial Officer of Sony Corporation): “Well, for next year, our so-called dual lens – dual camera platform will be launched by, we believe, from major smartphone players. However, as I said previously, recently, our smartphone market is growing and particularly, our high-end smartphone market is now slowing down. So, that may impact the demand or production schedule of dual camera smartphones by the major smartphone manufacturers. So, we believe the real start, the takeoff of smartphone with dual lens camerawill be in the year of 2017.”
Unfortunately, Sony was unable to give up any names of the devices that will embrace its new dual-lens sensor. However, Apple is expected to follow in the footsteps of Huawei, Lenovo and ZTE by adopting the Android innovation for its next-generation iPhone Plus, which leads us to believe that it may be purchasing the camera module from the Japanese conglomerate as Apple’s production lines are already full with its ultra-clear iSight cameras.
Via: Xperia Blog
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