Samsung is reportedly planning to announce the first 12MP cameraphone at the Mobile World Conference in about two weeks, lobbing another salvo of megapixels in the moment’s most pointless technology race.
Details are slim about the handset, which is telling—if the most notable and leakworthy feature of this phone is a noisy, pumped-spec camera then we probably aren’t going to be treated to anything revolutionary. It’d be reasonable to expect something like the Innov8, Samsung’s 8MP cameraphone (pictured above, slightly ‘shopped by Unwired) but a touchscreen handset like the about-to-drop 8MP Memoir isn’t out of the question either.
https://gizmodo.com/samsung-memoir-coming-to-t-mobile-feb-25th-for-299-5141367
Either way, the point remains that the cameraphone megapixel battle is a ridiculous one, driven by marketers instead of engineers—until there’s a truly great 3.2 megapixel cameraphone, milking more pixels out of these phones’ already strained sensors shouldn’t be a priority. [UnwiredView—Thanks, Kurt!]
