Mobile Photography Innovations Called Good for Smartphone Industry
Excitement about mobile photography innovations is “good news for the smartphone industry,” struggling to surpass “stagnant sales forecasts,” IHS analyst Wayne Lam said. Huawei Tuesday became the first vendor to incorporate a folded optics design that enables lossless optical zoom…
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photography in a smartphone. Lam said Huawei and Samsung are investing heavily in mobile photography improvements, while Apple has “arguably been left behind in the current design cycle.” Other “radical” mobile photography designs are coming to market, including one from Nokia’s (HMD)/Light.co with a five-lens, selectable depth-of-focus camera. “Ultimately, competition breeds better products,” and the next wave to mobile photography, including time-of-flight and other “novel” optical sensors, “should give the industry confidence that smartphone innovations have longer legs than the naysayers have proclaimed,” said the analyst. As for Huawei's future in the U.S. market, Lam said the company's success in Europe "helps limit the immediate impact of pressures the company faces from the United States government. Short term, there doesn't appear to be a solution" to the situation in the U.S., he said, and Huawei will continue to focus on existing businesses.