Tokyo, Japan - Sony Corporation today announced the commercialization of "IMX060PQ", a new type 1/2.5 CMOS image sensor "Exmor™" for use in camera enabled mobile phones that leverages Sony's proprietary formation technology to realize the industry's smallest unit cell size (1.4µm), and the industry's highest pixel count*1 (12.25 effective megapixel resolution). "IMX060PQ" is designed to meet the increasing need for advanced image quality within mobile phone enabled cameras. Sony also announced the launch of "IMX046PQ", a type 1/3.2 CMOS image sensor Exmor™ with 8.11 effective megapixel resolution, and "IMX045PQ", a type 1/4 Exmor™ CMOS image sensor featuring 5.15 effective megapixel resolution. Read the rest of this article »

As a backpacker, I like W-Series of Sony's line of CyberShot cameras, especially the W-55. So it was with my own high expectations that I picked up Sony's latest and top-end flagship camera, the W300 camera, the 13.6 megapixel beauty that has literally changed the playing field for the competition.

This may be too big for some people (roughly 5-5.5 MB's per image), however, when you turn the notch down to 8M, the Bayer interpolation goes away on the sensor, and the picture quality, in good light, starts to approach starter level SLR's, when the noise reduction is set right. Read the rest of this article »

Sony has announced an 18-inch laptop, the Vaio AW - an 18.4-inch display with Adobe RGB colour management. That is the digital photos will appear the same onscreen as they will on paper now. The display does 1080p for full HD playback, and its 16:9 aspect ratio matches that of movies. The 18-inch Acer Aspire 8920 also features a 16:9 screen ratio; most wide-screen laptops roll with 16:10. Sony says the Vaio AW weighs a fairly hefty 3.9kg in new money.

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