Get ready for some serious camera phonage. Kodak has just announced that its new KAC-05020 Image Sensor  sensor will be small enough to give camera phones the ability to shoot five-megapixel sized photos.

You can read the original story from Reuters here.

“Kodak says its KAC-05020 Image Sensor is the world’s first 1.4 micron, 5-megapixel device that allows capture of high quality images in small cameras, with quality that equals what is available from current devices using larger, 1.75 micron pixel designs.

“It will help manufacturers reduce their costs…because of the size - you can put more chips onto one wafer, for the same amount of money,” said Fas Mosleh, CMOS Sensors Marketing Director at Kodak. “This is the kind of technology that can help upgrade all camera phones to a real camera.”

Guess everyone will be busting out their cell phones during the next Super Bowl on the sidelines…

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