The Rise, Fall, and Return of the Smartphone Megapixel Race –Engadget

With Sony unveiling the world’s first 48-megapixel smartphone sensor, Engadget shares a brief history of the smartphone megapixel war thus far.

Sony’s sensors are widely used in smartphones, so if other manufacturers elect to use the IMX 586 imaging sensor […], we’ll soon see devices with incredible new camera capabilities. […] [H]igh-resolution smartphone cameras might finally come to phones many of us will actually buy.