There have been plenty of rumours surrounding the release of the newest smartphone edition of Apple, the iPhone 6. Most of them have been about the size of the display, which is rumoured to go up to as much as 5.7 inches, and about the fact that the phone is going to be a lot slimmer. There are also talks about Apple releasing two versions of the phone, with screen sizes of 4.7” and 5.7” and the bigger one having more features.
But as usual, the area where Apple will probably be trying to impress the most is the camera – each iPhone had significant upgrades and improvements on it and this one will be no different.
The recently leaked mocked-up versions of the iPhone 6 by Nowhereelse.fr include a protruding camera lens that might come in play to stabilise the images. The lens would serve to provide optical stabilisation that would otherwise be difficult to fit into a thinner frame. With the recently discovered patent that is labelled “Bayonet attachment mechanisms”, it would not be surprising if Apple would indeed use an interchangeable lens, which would allow much more flexibility with the improvements of pixel size.
It has been widely rumoured that Apple will be trying to improve its pixel size significantly in its next model, which is not an easy task. The iPhone 5s camera had a 1.5 micro meters pixel size, while the iPhone 6 could have a pixel size of 1.75 micro meters, according to a report by Chinese analyst Sun Chang Xu.
Although at this point this is all just speculation and the bayonet attachments for the lenses may even not ever be used, in the event that they were released with the new phone, this would certainly revolutionise the smartphone industry and provide a huge edge for Apple in terms of camera quality over all competitors.
For now, we just have to wait for more information to come out from Apple itself. And with the release date set for fall of 2014, it will probably come out sooner, rather than later.
