Jason Dunn
06-03-2002, 03:33 PM
<a href="http://www.3g.co.uk/PR/June2002/3488.htm">http://www.3g.co.uk/PR/June2002/3488.htm</a><br /><br />My wise friend Jeff McKean once said "People do things when they are cheap and easy" - if it's cheap and easy to add a camera to a Pocket PC, guess what? It will happen. This new CMOS sensor from Fujitsu is a huge step in that direction.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/cmos-camera.jpg" /><br /><br />"Fujitsu Limited today announced that it has developed and is making commercially available today a CMOS color image sensor module, the MB86S02A micro-camera module, for mobile phone and PDA applications. The 110,000-pixel unit offers high sensitivity and low noise, Common Intermediate Format (CIF) compatibility, and a built-in lens in the world's smallest, lightest, and lowest-power module of its type. Mobile phones are now being offered with video communications functionality, creating a need for mobile cameras to capture video data. Demand for CMOS image sensors is expected to rise because these devices are smaller and less power-hungry than charge-coupled device (CCD) cameras. Fujitsu has responded to the growing need for this type of product by developing a micro-camera module with the world's smallest feedback noise-reduction sensor (FNRS)." Source: <a href="http://www.mobigeeks.com/emml/emml.php">Mobigeeks newsletter</a>