9 photo sensors on the same smartphone? The crazy bet of Light

The American Light is working on an incredible prototype smartphone, which could well embark … 9 photo sensors on his back. What make manufacturers around the world tremble? Not sure, as its price promises to be high.

It's a big challenge for Dave Grannan and Rajiv Laroia. The founders of Light, an American company that has taken off from Palo Alto in the north of Silicon Valley, have had the good idea to show willful indiscretion towards Washington Post journalists. The US newspaper has unveiled the outline of the smartphone on which Light, a prototype with 9 photo sensors is working, and whose arrival could be announced by the end of 2018.

Credit: Light / Washington Post

64 megapixel photos for the first smartphone Light

Huawei is about to be overtaken, not … surpbaded? It is in any case the threat hanging over the Chinese giant, he who thought to have revolutionized the smartphone market by proposing its model P20 Pro, remember that is equipped with a triple photo sensor. Indeed, the manufacturer Light board on his very first smartphone. A logical continuation after the commercialization of its first camera last year, the L16, a camera with 16 lenses.

The smartphone should proudly display with 9 photo sensors, all on the back. Light boasts of being able to offer 64 megapixel photos (imagine the weight of the files!), With improved low-light performance and stylish, sophisticated depth effects.

And we can imagine, to spin the machine will have to perform well under the hood. So, as you would expect, the price promises to be as bad as the number of sensors installed on the back of the device. It should revolve around 2,000 euros, like the camera of the brand, the aforementioned L16.

Modified on 02/07/2018 at 11h51