Surprise news for us, that all these while it’s been quite tight-lip about, but now Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer ‘accidentally’ said that his company is producing cameras for the next batch of iPhones and iPads during a public interview with the Wall Street Journal. Traditionally, Apple’s sourced its sensors from OmniVision, including the delightfully backside-illuminated 5 megapixel CMOS unit you’ll find in the iPhone 4, but since Sony too has BSI tech and OmniVision has reportedly encountered delays, your next portable Apple product might house a Sony Exmor R sensor like the one found on the Xperia Arc. Great news this is. Of course, there’s a punch line in the article, and that the factory in charge of giving Apple some Alpha-licious camera sensors is affected by the Japanese tsunami disaster, so we might not see it in the next iPhone and the newly launched iPad 2 anyway.

SOURCE via Wall Street Journal