Micron behind: Smart phone like prime number armament race towards differentiation

Micron behind: Smartphone like prime number armament race towards differentiation September 25, 2013 10:09 Love fan son I have to say (8 participants) 30w, 130w, 200w, 320w, 500w, 800w ... In the past decade, smart-phone cameras have largely followed such parameters, along with the improvement of imaging quality has brought to consumers a misleading: imaging quality is equal to the number of pixels, so the number of pixels as a common consumer to judge the performance of the camera only reference standards. However, the "micron" unit is expected to become a new reference to "pixel", although ordinary users are still not familiar with it. The IPhone 5s did not have a 13 million megapixel camera as rumored on the recent Apple autumn new product launch. HTC, the smartphone maker that pioneered the "micron" concept, unexpectedly cut the number of its flagship handsets by half this year at HTC One's press conference. Micron is a smartphone's pixel size units, that is, the unit pixel area of the sensor, the larger the pixel size, each pixel can increase the amount of light, low light shooting effect is better. In the case of smart phone sensitive components (usually around 1/3 inches), pixel size and number of pixels of this extinction, to ensure greater pixel size, it is necessary to reduce the number of pixels. Conversely, the pixel size cannot be guaranteed by lifting the number of pixels blindly. At present, the smartphone sensor pixel size is usually about 1 microns, in contrast, the IPhone 5s to maintain 8 million pixels unchanged, by lifting the sensor size, the pixel size to 1.5 microns, and HTC One pixel size is reached 2 microns. Therefore, in the context of the smart phone pixel into the arms race, including Apple, HTC, the charm and other manufacturers do not upgrade the number of pixels is actually a trade-off, because for most consumers, imaging quality is far more important than the size of the photo. Nokia 1020 is obviously an exception, its 41 million pixel is completely by increasing the size of the sensor area, but the result is the camera components inevitably protruding, the portability of the phone is not guaranteed. In essence, such extreme examples are not consistent with the development of smartphones. The current mobile phone market is still in the atmosphere of irrational consumption, high parameters, High-performance is still the primary reference standard for ordinary consumers. From now on, as technology advances to make lighter devices more powerful, the number of smart handbook pixels may rise further, but it will no longer be the simple pursuit of prime numbers.