YouTube surprised us with a demo video of a new HTC device coming with pre-installed WP7 OS and an interesting 16 megapixel camera. The video is of questionable authenticity and thus we cannot claim it to be 100 percent true. Anyway, the camera, which will come up with dual LED flash, might be the best camera offered by smartphone manufacturers so far.
And this will not turn into a typical update of the smartphone-typical-camera, but already a doubled powerful camera, as the most powerful camera so far is an 8 megapixel one. And this 8 megapixel camera is not even used by all of the leading manufacturers.
The rest of the specs of the device are not revealed. But the device externally looks like the HTC Desire S. Some experts claim that this is going to be the upcoming HTC Ignite.
What company is going to work over the camera? Well, this is just another interesting question. We can only say that at the moment the most advanced camera for the smartphones is created by Altek.
The first manufacturer that was rather serious about the phone cameras is surely Nokia. But even in Nokia phones you will not find anything higher than 12 megapixel. And those devices are coming with a list of supporting features to make the functionality of the camera as optimal as possible. The fact that HTC will come up with a higher resolution camera doesn’t necessarily mean that the pics taken by it will be of high quality.
Unless the manufacturer don’t solve the problem of the supporting items, the idea of an advanced camera will definitely turn into a failure…