HTC has 12-megapixel Windows Phone in the works

By on May 30, 2011 at 11:31 AM
mobile May 30, 2011

When Nokia reintroduces itself to the world as a Windows Phone maker later this year, many anticipate that the company will instantly steal the limelight from other Microsoft partners. If HTC has anything to say about it, however, that won’t be the case. HTC looks primed to take a giant leap forward in the megapixel race with a 12-megapixel Windows Phone that can shoot RAW images. Industry insider Eldar Murtazin on Sunday posted an image and preliminary impressions of the unreleased Windows Phone being readied by HTC. The smartphone resembles the HTC Trophy just launched by Verizon Wireless, but the addition of a 12-megapixel camera supplies a point of differentiation that could have photogs drooling in anticipation. HTC has never been known to equip its smartphones with good image sensors and Murtazin says the quality of images taken with the upcoming 12-megapixel offering is just “not bad at all,” but he’s working with pre-release software so let’s hope HTC has some tweaks in store ahead of launch.

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  • http://www.droiddoes.com/ Norm

    now that is a nice looking NON-DROID…I hope lightning doesn’t strike me down from Mountain View for that comment. 

  • Anonymous

    I love how all these oem’s think the more megapixels you can jam into a phone the better the camera is and the better the photos will be. O wait that’s the simple minded people out there that buy these things. Because they think the more mp’s the better the camera will be when there is more to them like sensors, noise rations and light to dark ratios etc.

    • Yes_iHave_an_iPhone

      Yeah like all those iPhone buyers “my friend has one, that’s why I want it..”, “everyone at work has it so I have to get it”, “it’s the iPhone..” hahaha talk about simple minded folk.

    • serpentor

      Kinda like how Apple touts the number of apps in their appstore, huh?

      • Anonymous

        Ya because megapixels on a camera and apps for a phone are the same thing. lol A swear bgr should have people show their common sense in tech id’s before commenting.

      • Betelgeuse Orion

        millions of apps = garbage
        millions of pixels = garbage

        sounds the same to me

      • Anonymous

        Ya because megapixels on a camera and apps for a phone are the same thing. lol A swear bgr should have people show their common sense in tech id’s before commenting.

    • Anonymous

      Of course, and most people know this so I’m going to assume they know this as well.  ;)

      HTC hasn’t produced the best cameras in the past, so maybe this is an indication that they plan taking things a bit more seriously.  

    • Anonymous

      Of course, and most people know this so I’m going to assume they know this as well.  ;)

      HTC hasn’t produced the best cameras in the past, so maybe this is an indication that they plan taking things a bit more seriously.  

    • BDUS

      I agree 100%.  I have a 12 year old 2MP cannon digital that takes 10X better photos than my 8MP EVO.  100MP doesn’t mean shit if it has a crappy lens attached to it.  Let’s see HTC strap a Lieca or Zeiss lense on their future devices. 

      • Betelgeuse Orion

        its partially the lens but i would say for a camera phone its more important to have CCD Surface area

    • Senor Chang

      Since my old WinMo MDA, I have owned 4 other phones (WinMo, Android and WP7), and despite the ‘better’ technology in all those phones, none of them seem to have ever taken pictures as well as that MDA.  Sounds insane, but I stand by opinion.

  • Anonymous

    IQ > MP
    Give us a low noise, 5MP CMOS sensor with good image quality and I will be happy.  I’m not planning on printing A3 sized protraits taken on my phone anytime soon.

  • Sin City

    It looks like the Sprin’t HTC Mazaa, though the screen looks smaller.

  • Anonymous

    I hope that camera SW gets a new feature:

     - Accurate Auto White Balance (non-HTC algorithm)

    Really. After several years of pushing camera phones HTC does not have a *single* camera phone out there that does not have a horrible AWB algorithm. Their imaging unit coders should be sacked and replaced with true professionals. Or somebody in the team should by the standard colour algorithm/colour management book and learn it by heart.

    12Mpix is not very useful, if blues look pink and whites turn yellow and everything is mushy.

    HTC needs to get up to snuff with their image DSP coding.

  • Anonymous

    Dayum, that’s pretty sweet.  Nice looking phone, too!  Then again it is HTC … solid stuff.

  • Anonymous

    Dayum, that’s pretty sweet.  Nice looking phone, too!  Then again it is HTC … solid stuff.

  • Anonymous

    You want a good camera, let’s see what nokia does with it’s first WP7 phone. I will admit that nokia makes some great camera phones (i.e. the N8). I had several HTC Android phones. All of them were just ok when it came to taking pictures.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ricardo-Dawkins/746307628 Ricardo Dawkins

    Good luck beating the camera quality of the N Series, HTC.

    • Anonymous

      Of course N series phones have better camera. They’re twice as thick!
      Havent you noticed?

  • Anonymous

    Regardless of if more mp results directly in better pictures at least HTC seem to be moving the camera feature in a good direction. Also for everyone who says that a phone can’t look different and they’re all just slabs of glass well this one is a bit different.

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