For the average smartphone user, their phone can either shoot at 120fp or 240fps, depending on the video resolution, and that tends to be enough. For Sony, which is likely the sensor maker for your phone, especially if you own an iPhone, that’s simply not enough. As Micah Singleton writes for The Verge, Sony’s latest camera sensor can shoot

 1080p slow-motion video at a blistering 1,000 frames per second. The new 3-layer CMOS sensor — an industry first — can capture slow motion video about eight times faster than its competition with minimal focal pane distortion 

and that’s not all.

 The sensor can also take 19.3MP images in 1/120th of a second, which Sony says is four times faster than other chips, thanks to high-capacity DRAM, and a 4-tier construction on the circuit section used to convert analog video signals to digital signals. 

I couldn’t have told you I’d want something like that in my phone but after having seen the results, I can’t wait for it to appear in future iPhones and Pixel smartphones. That’s because although I’m sure it will come to Xperia devices first, at the rate Sony is selling them (or not actually selling them), there simply isn’t enough of them out in the world for anybody to notice until they appear on a competitor phone and hailed as a flagship feature.

As Singlton noted,

 At 1,000fps it even surpasses the Sony RX 100 V, which can only shoot at 960fps. 

And that’s just insane. Why do people buy point-and-shoot cameras still? Oh yea, they don’t buy those either with Sony having sold 6.1 million cameras in 2015 versus 3.8 million in 2016.