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Sony ‘lens-cameras’ leaked in promo shots, can be attached to smartphones

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Looks like Sony is planning an interesting reveal for its IFA press event. The company is reportedly going to announce two lenses, which are actually full-fledged cameras without view-finder/ display or controls. These lens-cameras can be attached to any smartphone or tablet to control them via Wi-Fi or NFC.

According to a report in Sony Alpha Rumours, dubbed as DSC-QX10 and DSC-QX100, these lenses will come with built-in sensor, Bionz image processor, Wi-Fi/NFC and SD card slot. These are magnetically attached to smartphones or tablets and function like any point-and-shoot camera.

In other details, the bigger lens-cameras in above photo uses a 1-inch sensor, which is also used in Nikon 1 system. On the other hand, the second lens-camera packs a 10x zoom lens with 1/2, 3-inch 18 megapixel CMOS sensor.

Sony Honami (i1) also spotted in the leaked promo images

One of the promo images that Sony Alpha Rumours leaked along with the lens camera story also shows the rumoured Sony Xperia I1 smartphone aka Honami.  Here is the cropped version, showing the Honami.

By Gaurav Shukla

Gaurav Shukla is a journalist with over 12 years of experience covering the consumer technology space. He started his career with a self-published Android blog and has since worked with Microsoft's MSN.com, XDA Developers, How-to Geek, and NDTV Gadgets 360.

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