Sony CEO Leaks iPhone 5 Details

In an interview to Wall Street Journal, Sony CEO Sir Stringer revealed about the delay in supplying "image sensors" to one of Apple products. The next iPhone is due in June, while iPad just got upgraded. There is no way an iPod Touch is getting a better camera before an iPhone. So, in all probability it is an iPhone and we could be quite sure about the camera being an 8MP one in the next version. 

Japan is still recovering from the natural disaster that struck it sometime ago. Apart from making an assessment on the loss of human lives and to business, analysts have been speculating at the loss/delay that worldwide technology companies would be experiencing, as they are dependent on Japan for essential electronic components.

In one such interview to the Wall Street Journal, Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer, while explaining the damage to 15 of Sony's plants in Japan, also mentioned that there will be a delay in supplying image sensors which are headed to Apple.
The image sensor in question is an 8-megapixel variant which in all probability, is headed to the iPhone 5.

The iPad 2 features a new processor, A5 which would again in all possibility be featured in the next iPhone. Also, Apple has consistently been improving the camera capabilities with every iteration of the iPhone – be it better sensors for image clarity or high-definition photo/video capabilities or more megapixels. If we join all the points, it indicates to a better image sensor, with more megapixels for the next iPhone.

There is another report to support our claims. An analyst report which came out of February pointed that OmniVision, the current supplier of image sensors for the iPhone, may lost out on its contract with Apple since the former's 8-megapixel sensor would not be ready by June/July, the time around which a new iPhone is announced.

It could also happen that the next iPhone itself might be delayed due to the Japanese catastrophe or Apple might chose not to upgrade it at all. We have already heard reports of Apple concentrating more on software, rather than hardware this time at the Worldwide Developers Conference.