The memo we sent out regarding megapixels seems to have got caught up in the mail on the way to South Korea. Specifically — squeezing more and more photo-sensitive dots onto teeny-tiny chips is a recipe for noisy, low quality images with a perversely high file size. Who is guilty this time? Samsung.
It looks like the company will be announcing a 12 megapixel camera phone at this year’s Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona. The rumor is credible simply because Samsung has a habit of being first to market with such pixel-happy cameras. The photo above is a fake, by the way, photoshopped from a snap of Samsung’s Innov8.
However you look at this, it’s bad news. The resulting photographs will certainly be awful, and the only reason for this "innovation" is the show-off value of the number 12 on the handset. I spoke to the Nikon people at CES this year and they all agreed that camera makers are sick of megapixels, but that the buying public just can’t get enough. Which is why, in a naive attempt to change this, we go on and on about it. Do not buy this phone.
Samsung to present the world’s first 12MP phone at MWC 2009 [Unwiredview via New Launches]
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