Every time we want to see, finally, Project Ara, one of the projects developed by Google most interesting that we can find today. Whether or not they are the future, the bet of modular telephones is very interesting and Toshiba It will be one of the companies that will offer the most components, specifically three camera modules, one of them for selfies. Know all the details of each of them.
Today Toshiba has presented some camera modules that will allow owners of a modular phone of Project Ara, customize how you want your photos. Each of these three modules is unique, with its own characteristics that will allow to obtain a better or worse quality in the images. One of the cameras is intended for the famous selfies while the remaining two intend to add a sensor on the back.
On the one hand, the selfie camera It is designed to sit on top of the screen and will offer a resolution of 2 megapixels –As it seems, we cannot expect great results with this module, although we can with the rest. In the case of cameras for rear, Toshiba has decided create 2 × 1 modules with a resolution of 5 and 13 megapixels, although it also has several really interesting sensors prepared that even reach the 20 megapixels and they offer some interesting options such as image stabilization or recording with a very high number of images per second, specifically 900 fps (at 320 x 240 pixels).
Obviously the difficulty of getting one compatibility and performance plenary sessions is much more complicated than what we can think of in a conventional smartphone. In the video that we have linked you can see a prototype of one of these cameras being connected to a development board to start working, just like that, as if it were a USB webcam.
Currently the Toshiba project is divided into three phases. Phase one, which is the one we just described, Phase two in which they will add certain modules to use NFC, external memories and a technology of short range and high speed, and Phase three, which is not yet fully decided. For now, Toshiba is one of the great members of Project Ara and therefore one of Google's great allies in a war that will begin very soon.
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I keep thinking the same…. I do not see a use for a smartphone by modules. I prefer to buy a complete cell phone every year. By the way the hooks of the modules by electromagnet? more battery consumption not to mention that if you drop each motor will shoot out with the blow