The next iPhone could boast the “biggest camera jump ever,” with next year’s model reportedly looking to blow previous Apple smartphones out of the water when it comes to camera quality.
Daring Fireball‘s John Gruber claims that he was given information about the next iPhone from “a birdie of a birdie,” saying: “The specific thing I heard is that next year’s camera might be the biggest camera jump ever. I don’t even know what sense this makes, but I’ve heard that it’s some kind of weird two-lens system where the back camera uses two lenses and it somehow takes it up into DSLR quality imagery.”
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Though Gruber doesn’t give further details in regards to the rumor, it sounds mightily similar to the two-sensor Duo Lens camera boasted by HTC’s One M8, with the secondary lens featured in the M8 being used to send additional information about images to the primary lens.
Apple typically saves its largest camera improvements for its “S” upgrades, with the iPhone 4s previously bumping the camera’s quality up to 8 megapixels. The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus brought with them more upgrades, introducing Apple’s own image signal processor Focus Pixels, giving the device more information about an image in order to provide faster and more efficient auto-focusing.
It’s yet to be seen where Apple is looking to take the iPhone’s camera from here on out, but we’ll know more in 2015 when the iPhone 6s (if that’s the name Apple chooses to run with) is on its way to market.
