In an interview with Walt Mossberg from the Wall Street Journal on Friday night, the CEO of Sony was originally talking about damage to Sony's 15 factories in Japan by the quake, but "let slip" mentions that one of its factories that were making image sensors for camera iPhone 5 and sensors that will delayed due to the earthquake and tsunami.
Stringer did not specifically say that Sony is making an 8-megapixel image sensor for the iPhone 5, but clearly it was confirmed that Sony plans to supply components of the iPhone 5.
That means, Apple will no longer use the 5MP image sensor made by OmniVision is currently pinned on the iPhone 4. An analyst in February reported that OmniVision may lose the opportunity to supply the iPhone camera 8MP 5 because OmniVision sensors will not be ready for the device to be launched mid-summer's.
Because Stringer has been talking about the irony of providing the best camera for Apple, we can only guess that he was talking about 8MP image sensor, the Wall Street Journal wrote about Stringer in a report Monday morning.
Initially, he picked up the irony of Sony to supply components for the Apple device camera. It "remains a puzzle to me," he said.
"Why do I make Apple the best camera?" From that sentence, it is not clear what he is talking device, as Sony does not know will supply key components of the camera, known as image sensors, for Apple.
A Sony spokesman declined to comment, and Apple spokesman could not be reached for comment, according to Mashable.
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