Hewlett-Packard is licensing imaging technology to Flextronics for improving image quality in camera phones, according to an article CNET News, TheStreet.com and the company's press release (another unnecessary, memory-hogging pdf file).
Flextronics, the huge contract manufacturer of cellular phonnes (among many other products), is expected to produce camera phones with H-P imaging technology in 2007. Flextronics manufactures cellular phones for such companies as Kyocera, Motorola and Sony Ericsson.
The H-P technology will be incorporated into camera phones of three megapixels and above as part of a five-year collaboration with Flextronics, according to CNET.
Three megapixels and better
CNET says, "HP currently includes the same technology in its own digital cameras. The upshot is that the 3-megapixel shots taken with these tiny camera phones will be largely equivalent to the shots taken by digital still cameras.
I certainly will be glad when a three megapixel camera phone photo is equivalent to that taken with a good digital still camera -- both outdoors and indoors.
CNET also says Flextronics and H-P will work to get cellular phone manufacturers to use other H-P features, such as "slimming down" a person's image after the photo is taken.
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