The latest iPhone 5 rumors: expect a new 8 mega pixel camera (current one is 5 mega pixels), and it does seem as though release of the iPhone 5 may in fact be a bit delayed from its normal early summer launch. The reason? A manufacturing plant in Japan. The rumors to date have been that Apple’s current manufacturer for the iPhone 4’s camera chip, OmniVision, couldn’t manufacture a 8 megapixel chip in time for the iPhone 5’s release, so Apple went with Sony instead. Since Sony’s CEO spoke to the irony of the tsunami and earthquake delaying getting the camera chip to Apple, he basically confirms that an 8 megapixel chip is to be expected. From the article:

“In an interview late Friday with the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg, the Sony chief was talking about earthquake damage to 15 of the Sony’s factories in Japan, and inadvertently mentioned that a camera sensor made in one of those plants is on its way to Apple, and that sensor would be delayed because of the quake and tsunami. … Because Stringer was talking about the irony of supplying the company’s best camera to Apple, we can only surmise that he was talking about an 8-megapixel sensor.”