Sony CEO Howard Stringer just made a huge slip-up by telling us that the iPhone 5 will probably have an 8MP camera from Sony! When being interviewed by Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal, he said
"Shipments of camera lenses to Apple have been delayed by the Japan earthquake."
Sony shipping camera lenses to Apple? OmniVision Technologies has been the sole supplier for cameras on Apple's iPads, iPhones and iPod Touches. So, this shipment must be for an upcoming product, most likely the iPhone 5. Or maybe they're thinking about getting a camera on the iPad 2 with better resoloution than 1.3MP... I hope! This does, however, coincide with a report made in April 2010 that the 2011 iPhone would have an 8MP camera. Also note that Apple filed a patent for a 3D camera on the iPhone... see post "Later iPhones to have 3D camera?"
