Originally Posted By: gbeer

More megapixels would seem to be the answer to things like small images and sharper images with the ability to selectively focus thru greater depth.


They are already using an 11 megapixel sensor to get (roughly) 500x500 images. Even if they magic'd up a 44 megapixel sensor you are still only looking at 1000x1000 images, which sure sounds at the gimmick end of the scale to me.
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