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It is not just optics that needs to be better the size of the sensor would need to be increased, else you'd seriously drown in noise. Also you'd need some interesting storage system for all that data, even assuming you had hardware compression for the video.

Packing all that technology into a mobile sized device might prove to be the downfall of all of this :-)]]>Nov 7th 2008 8:45AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/11/07/ericsson-20-megapixel-cellphones-shooting-full-hd-video-in-4-ye/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/11/07/ericsson-20-megapixel-cellphones-shooting-full-hd-video-in-4-ye/
16Gb should easily store two hours of Blu-ray/HD DVD quality video coupled with a decent soundtrack. The issue is not storage right now, it's the other issue you mention - the optics and quality of the cameras in general.


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Even with the absolute best lenses on the market, cameras are limited by the lenses more and more, not the sensor.

Physics cannot be overcome by a spiffy PowerPoint presentation - get to the lab and come out when you have made it work!]]>Nov 7th 2008 10:35AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/11/07/ericsson-20-megapixel-cellphones-shooting-full-hd-video-in-4-ye/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/11/07/ericsson-20-megapixel-cellphones-shooting-full-hd-video-in-4-ye/
Optically, they could do something along the lines of a micro lens array/light field capture and do some computational photography (on camera) - thus doing away with a focusing system - I guess that will be in the next marketing powerpoint...]]>Nov 7th 2008 10:58AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/11/07/ericsson-20-megapixel-cellphones-shooting-full-hd-video-in-4-ye/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/11/07/ericsson-20-megapixel-cellphones-shooting-full-hd-video-in-4-ye/Nov 7th 2008 11:17AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/11/07/ericsson-20-megapixel-cellphones-shooting-full-hd-video-in-4-ye/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/11/07/ericsson-20-megapixel-cellphones-shooting-full-hd-video-in-4-ye/Nov 7th 2008 2:54PM