For months now, we’ve been reporting on rumors that the Sony Xperia Honami, the companies next flagship Android smartphone would include a 20.7-megapixel camera sensor. Despite having screenshots of the phones setting screen which pointed out the Honami’s cameras resolution, we can now very confidently confirm the megapixel count thanks to a sample photo from the camera which was uploaded to Google’s unpopular Picasa photo service. The photo in question which appears to the left of this post is snapped at a whopping 5248 x 3936 pixels, which if my math is correct, comes out to be about 20.66-megapixels. Since then, the photo has been taken down from Picasa but we of course still have the photo to show you, thanks to the magical capabilities of computers saving images from the web.

While you might say that the photo in question could have been taken by anyone and faked, upon further investigation of the account that the photo was uploaded to, we’ve learned that the uploaded in question is Taylor Li, who is a Sr. Manager at Sony Ericsson Taiwan according to the XperiaBlog. More juicy than the megapixel count which we were fairly confident about at this point is the cameras filming capabilities. Such a resolution places the Xperia Honami’s video resolution at 4K. This is however far from a sure thing as Sony could simply tweak the firmware so that video capture happens at a lower resolution. Seeing how much of a storage hog 4K can be, even at a compressed rate which is surely what the Xperia Honami would do if it did end up offering 4K, it begs the question if it’s necessary or useful in any shape. Still, it’s  an interesting and one of a kind feature that Sony can expand upon and push for, seeing how they are the first manufacture to have a consumer priced 4K TV in the market. It’s expected that Sony will announced the Xperia Honami at the IFA 2013 in Berlin on September 4th.

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