Thursday, July 02, 2009

Smartphone Sensor Suppliers

Digitimes published a nice table summarizing the suppliers for few high-profile smartphones:

Smartphone Image Sensor Suppliers

Vendor

Smartphone model

Megapixel Count

Supplier

HTC

Hero

5

Aptina, Samsung

Apple

iPhone 3GS

3

OmniVision, ST

LG

Viewty Smart

8

Aptina, Samsung

Samsung

Omnia

5

Samsung, Aptina


Talking about HTC Hero, Digitimes say that Aptina supplies 60%, while Samsung - 40% of the phone sensors. Aptina will supply more than 50% sensors for HTC handsets in the second half of 2009, and the rest will be shared by Samsung and ST, the sources indicated.

2 comments:

  1. It's very interesting that iPhone 3gS went with ST Micro less than a month after releasing the launch models with an Omnivision sensor. Samsung clearly is the prefered choice overall.
    What sensor and embedded DxO ISP does the Palm Pre use?

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  2. I believe iPhone uses both ST and Omnivision. It's quite usual that big handset manufacturers use two sources for camera module.

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