The 4K mobile phones are coming.... (new Sony phone may take 4K video)

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Steve Castle

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Earlier this year Qualcomm has been touting 4K-readiness in both capture and play of its Snapdragon 800 chips. Sony, who uses Qualcomm as their mobile chip supplier, seems to be ready release their new "Honami" phone that is rumored to have a 20MP sensor that can capture 4K video. The sensor is said to be 1/2.3", which is fairly large for a phone (a little larger than Super 8mm in size). Due to the ubiquity of Sony sensors in everything from iPhones to Samsung Galaxys, we should expect 4K video from pretty much all phone manufacturers in the future.

4K mobile phones are coming...

http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/15/sony-honami-4k-video-rumor/

Alright, we admittedly don't know a great deal about the provenance of the slide above. It was first picked up on Chinese social networking site Weibo, but the original post seems to have been deleted. What we do know, however, is that Sony's forthcoming flagship phone, codenamed Honami, has already beenrumored to possess a 4K-ready processor (the Snapdragon 800), and that Sony is wildly enthusiastic about 4K as something that can unite its expandinghardwareecosystem. The slide's title therefore has a ring of truth to it, because it's accompanied by Bravia branding and sounds like realistic marketing babble from a TV-focused presentation:

"How do you get 4K content? By shooting videos with a 4K cellphone."

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The slide also details a 20-megapixel Exmor R rear camera sensor for Honami, which tallies with earlier reports, as well as a meaty 2.2-megapixel front-facing camera. The only issue we have is with the quoted 4K video resolution of 4,000 x 2,000 -- it's unusual and doesn't match the Ultra HD resolution Sony has settled on for its 4K TVs (3,840 x 2,160). In any case, resolution is only half the story. This is all speculative, of course, but if other bottlenecks in this phone forced Sony to compress the heck out of captured 4K video, there's every chance it'd end up looking worse than 1080p.
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