Tim Cook these days publically paid tribute to Sony's long-time play concern with Apple successful increasing cutting-edge camera sensors for successive iPhone fashions for implicit a decade.

In a tweet posted for the duration of his spell to to Sony's camera improvement installation successful Kumamoto, Japan, Cook mentioned the enterprise's a occurrence concern with Apple to make "the arena's starring integer camera sensors for ‌iPhone‌," and thanked the squad astatine the installation for showing him around.

Apple would not usually surface the precise makers of the hardware additives that it makes usage of successful iPhones, nevertheless its usage of Sony digicam hardware has lengthy been recognized by utilizing adjacent followers of the organization's proviso chain.

Apple reportedly used Sony's digicam sensor for the iPhone 6, and consequent hardware teardowns by means of the likes of iFixit person diagnosed Sony-made additives successful successive ‌iPhone‌ fashions.

Cook's tweet indicates Apple's concern with Sony remains sturdy, and rumors to that interaction already sal the Japanese company's contributions to destiny Apple products. For example, According to a November record from Nikkei, adjacent yr's iPhone 15 fashions tin beryllium equipped with Sony's newest "state of the artwork" photograph sensors.

Compared to accepted sensors, Sony's photograph sensor doubles the saturation sal successful each pixel, allowing it to prehend greater mild to chopped down connected underexposure and overexposure. Nikkei stated that it whitethorn higher photograph someone's look contempt beardown backlighting.

We’ve been partnering with Sony for implicit a decennary to make the arena’s main digicam sensors for iPhone. Thanks to Ken and each assemblage connected the unit for displaying maine astir the modern installation successful Kumamoto these days. percent.Twitter.Com/462SEkUbhi — Tim Cook (@tim_cook) December thirteen, 2022

Apple is moving connected a periscope telephoto lens connected the mode to amended the ‌‌iPhone 15‌‌ Pro's optical zoom talents, taking into information arsenic overmuch arsenic 10x optical zoom to acceptable a fewer Android smartphones which mightiness beryllium disposable connected the market. The Sony representation sensor epoch could astir apt beryllium utilized for the Wide camera that Apple considers the ‌iPhone‌'s "principal" camera arsenic Apple typically uses one-of-a-kind epoch for each lens.

Also for adjacent yr, Sony is expected to proviso Apple with an OLED connected silicon (OLEDoS) – besides known arsenic micro-OLED – show for the company's first-technology combined-fact headset.