Quote Originally Posted by ahab1372 View Post
What will this be good for? To allow cropping?
It looks like cropping (superior "digital zoom") is the primary benefit that they are marketing. I see laypeople trying to get a shot with their camera phone from far away all the time. This would actually let them do it in some circumstances -- you can't just make the lens zoom, because then the phone would have to become larger (and most people would rather have a thin phone with no zoom than a thick phone). This way they can have their cake (thin phone) and eat it too (zoom).