Sony’s backside-illuminated CMOS image sensors, newly out of the development stage, may further improve the quality of images and videos captured through smartphone cameras, and also help shrink the size of the camera module as a whole, leading to thinner devices.
This image sensor layers the pixel section containing formations of back-illuminated structure pixels onto chips containing the circuit section for signal processing, which is in place (more…)

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Now that people have had some time with their iPhone 4S, I’m sure many have had plenty of time to take pictures using the upgraded 8-megapixel camera. On it’s own, the iPhone 4S takes great shots, but what if you want something more?

This week’s iOS app collection is all about adding effects to your images. The first lets you flip through numerous effects and stack them for amazing results. The second (more…)

sports a vastly improved 8-megapixel camera.
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got to work and found out something new: the 8MP image sensor was manufactured by Sony.
ChipWorks tore down the iPhone 4S to find out who made the 8-megapixel CMOS image sensor in their unit. Instead of using the normal method of using fuming sulfuric acid, they used an infrared microscope to take this picture:
In the past, OmniVision has been Apple ‘s chosen manufacturer for their image sensors, (more…)

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We’ve all been there at one time or another. You’re looking at a beautiful landscape and you want to capture it, but the view is simply too wide to capture it all with your iPhone camera. Or maybe you’re selling something on the Web, but taking a flat photograph of the object just doesn’t seem to do it justice.

Fortunately, with the enormous abundance of photography apps in the iTunes App Store, there (more…)

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Instagram, in case you haven’t installed it already, is a popular
app that allow users to take photos, add filters to make them look better or funny and share them with your friends on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr etc. 
As mentioned earlier, the latest version of Instagram adds radial tilt shift mode.
To update to the latest version of Instagram, visit the App Store on your iPhone or iPod Touch and select Updates or download it for free (more…)

The Klipsch Image S4i earphones are nearly identical to their sibling, the Image S4. They not only provide the same comfortable fit and stellar sound quality, but also offer the added bonus of an integrated mic and call answer button, as well as volume controls and remote playback for the iPod . Call quality through the inline mic is solid, though not overly spectacular for a wired headset. At $99, the Image S4i costs $20 more, which is probably (more…)