14 DAY TRIAL // Sony is one of the largest module camera suppliers in the smartphone industry, so it's no wonder the company innovates on a regular basis. The Japanese company wants to keep its products among the best on the market, but that comes with other advantages as well.
The best camera modules made by Sony will first be included in the Xperia smartphones. Obviously, they will eventually be offered to other handset makers too, but Sony fans will get access to the new technology before anyone else.
As it happens, Sony is about to announce another innovation in the smartphone camera technology. The announcement will go live on February 26 during the company's MWC 2017 press conference.
According to a presentation slide obtained by Esato (via XperiaBlog), the 2017 Xperia smartphones, or a part of them, will pack something called “world's first memory embedded camera.”
A type of predictive capture will make its way into smartphones
The new camera will include a feature called Motion Eye, which is supposed to help detect motion and start buffering, capturing 4 pictures in the one second prior to the shutter being pressed and saved.
It will function like some sort of predictive capture for the smartphone's camera, and it will allow Xperia users to take shots extremely fast.
Sony announced earlier this month its triple-layer CMOS image smartphone sensor, and the memory embedded camera leaked today seems to be a variation of that camera module.
The person leaking the picture claims the new memory embedded camera will be first included on the Xperia XZs and Xperia XZ Premium smartphones. However, it might go inside other mid-range handsets later this year.
Sony is expected to unveil at least four new Android smartphones later this week, but a flagship handset might not be announced. The Japanese company could introduce a Snapdragon 821-based phone at MWC 2017, and another flagship powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 CPU in the second part of the year.