Acronyms like RGBW and HDR make any sense to you? This is Sony’s new take on the mobile camera space, and could just be part of the iPhone 5!

Sony yesterday announced a “giant leap in smartphone picture-taking quality”. Since we’re talking Sony here, we paid heed. After all, the iPhone 4S does feature a Sony 8-megapixel sensor. Sony's RGBW Coding function works on a simple enough premise, to the RGB spectrum, the new sensor adds white, so that the light sensitivity is increased, meaning goodbye to noise and low light issues.

The HDR Function (High Dynamic Range) is a way to capture as much detail possible in a frame by essentially guardung against over-exposure or excessive shadowing.

Two pictures are taken, with two different exposure settings (so that one captures details in shadows, while the other captures detail in highlights and brighlty-lit areas). The two pictures are combined into one to achieve results like this:

Now Sony wants you to have HDR bragging rights in video as well:

The iPhone 5 connection:

Son'y new back-illuminated CMOS sensor is tipped for inclusion within the Apple iPhone 5, and that will allow for increasingly thin designs with improved functionality.

According to Sony, "This structure achieves further enhancement in image quality, superior functionalities and a more compact size that will lead to enhanced camera evolution."

Apple iPhone 5 Rumours

Originally expected to land in the place of the now popular Apple iPhone 4S, the iPhone 5 is expected to land later this year with an all new form factor and a bevy of improved innards.

Following the continual trends of the smartphone scene the iPhone 5 is expected to up its camera and processor offerings with shedding a few millimetres and grams although further details on these enhanced components are currently unknown.

What would you like to see Apple drop in the iPhone 5? Would a new, thinner form factor be top of that list?