HD videophones by 2012

The quality of cameras in phones has risen exponentially in the last few years from poor VGA to the fairly good 3 megapixel and beyond. But there is always progress to be made, and Sony Ericsson have outlined some fairly ambitious aims in the release of their four year plan for smart phones; not only with cameras but other aspects of the phones as well.

However I will begin with cameras, and Ericsson’s vision is that by 2012 the cameras on phones will be capable of 20 megapixels and even the ability to shoot full HD video. This is incredibly ambitious in four years, especially considering the current economic climate, but there is nothing to suggest that it cannot be done. This will certainly have far reaching effects regarding home videos allowing near professional home films to be made via phone cameras, which would be pretty cool!

Moving onto the rest of the future phones, we see that they plan to have 1GHz processors in the phones in four years, as well as 1024 x 768 XGA screens. This will be a massive improvement, although there is a slight discrepancy there since the phone will be capable of taking video of higher quality than it can show, but that is to be expected. Also the report hinted that by 2012 smart phones will support Long Term Evolution, a possible 100Mb/sec 3G successor. Personally, I can’t wait to see the devices move away from phones and towards computers, although where this line would be drawn is definitely up for debate.

Source [PCPro]