Texas Instruments chips boost cameraphone flash power
The chipmeisters over at Texas Instruments have come up with a solution for getting a bit more juice to those wimpy LED flashes that all the cool cameraphones are sporting these days. The two new chips they've developed can zap a white LED with 800 milliamps or 1 amp respectively (a pretty high power level for such a small LED) which results in correspondingly brighter flashes. "Brighter" is of course relative to the currently anemic light levels coming out of current cameraphones, but we have a feeling that the inevitable march towards the cameraphone-slr means that this is just another step towards a "brighter" future.
[Via Phone Scoop]
