document: Sony CEO Accidentally Reveals Secret Details about iPhone 5 Sir Howard Stringer , CEO of Sony , accidentally told everyone in the world that his company will be supplying image sensors for Apple ` s iPhone 5 . In an interview late Friday with the Wall Street Journal 's Walt Mossberg , the Sony chief was talking about earthquake damage to 15 of the Sony 's factories in Japan , and inadvertently mentioned that a camera sensor made in one of those plants is on its way to Apple , and that sensor would be delayed because of the quake and tsunami . Stringer did n't specifically say that Sony is building an 8-megapixel image sensor that will go into the iPhone 5 , but since Sony is currently not manufacturing any image sensors for Apple , this confirmed that Sony plans to supply components of the iPhone 5 . This points to the distinct possibility that in the iPhone 5 , Apple will no longer be using those OmniVision 5-megapixel image sensors currently inside the iPhone 4 . This is supported by an analyst 's report from February of this year saying that OmniVision might lose out on supplying cameras for the iPhone 5 because OmniVision 's 8-megapixel sensor wo n't be ready for the iPhone 5 ′ s rumored mid-summer launch . Because Stringer was talking about the irony of supplying the company 's best camera to Apple , we can only surmise that he was talking about an 8-megapixel sensor . Here 's what The Wall Street Journal wrote about Stringer 's quote when reporting on its own event this morning : Early on , he raised the irony of Sony supplying camera components for Apple devices . It `` always puzzles me , '' he said . `` Why would I make Apple the best camera ? '' It is unclear what devices he was talking about as Sony is n't known to supply key camera components , known as image sensors , to Apple ; A Sony spokeswoman declined to comment and an Apple spokesperson could n't be reached for comment . Stringer 's inadvertent slip also lends credence to the rumors of a delayed release of the iPhone 5 . So what do you think , readers ? Is this enough evidence for us to bet on a Sony 8-megapixel camera going into the iPhone 5 ?
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