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Using custom-designed semiconductor materials, the company’s QuantumFilm sensors deliver 4x higher performance, 2x higher dynamic range and other professional camera features not previously available in mobile image sensors, according to InVisage.

Today’s digital cameras use silicon-based sensors, but developing higher quality sensors from silicon is not an easy task.

“It is becoming increasingly difficult and expensive to develop next-generation image sensors using silicon; essentially, silicon has hit a wall,” said Jess Lee, InVisage president and CEO in a statement. “The fundamental problem is that silicon cannot capture light efficiently, but until now it has been the only option. The disruptive nature of QuantumFilm builds on silicon’s success in electronics, and elevates its function using new materials that are engineered from the ground up for light capture.”

Silicon-based capture an average of 25 percent of light, while InVisage Technology’s QuantumFilm is capable of capturing 90 percent to 95 percent of light. More light captured results in clearer pictures - even in difficult lighting conditions.

The first QuantumFilm image sensors will target high-end mobile handsets and be available for sample in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to InVisage.

The study indicates a digital divide between people under 30 or over 30 who use standard cell phones, with the under 30 set experiencing problems much less frequently and resolving issues quickly by simply asking a friend how to do it. Cell users are invited to sound off at http://buzz.bowenresearch.com.

“Cell phone manufacturers aim to distinguish themselves from their competition with increasingly complex features and unique interfaces, yet consumers over 30 have this frustrating sense of ‘enough already,’” said Hugh Bowen, of Bowen Research. “That demographic wants features that are easily accessible, not lost in multiple levels of menus within menus; they want large fonts they can read; and they want a simpler button setup so they’re not so confused about what they’re doing, hitting keys by accident, etc.”

That demographic wants features that are easily accessible, not lost in multiple levels of menus within menus; they want large fonts they can read; and they want a simpler button setup so they’re not so confused about what they’re doing, hitting keys by accident, etc.

Even basic features like dialing, speakerphone and using the address book prove difficult and confusing for users 30 and up, a group that number more than 40 million in the United States. Many of these fed up phone users spend time reading manuals and contacting customer service only to give up trying to determine how to use phone capabilities like texting, synching with their computer, email, games and ringtones. While participants in the under 30 category indicated they used 52% of their phone’s features, that figure dropped a full 12% for their more mature counterparts.

Participants in the study, which involved in-depth one-on-one interviews with cell phone users on both sides of the age 30 cell phone divide communicated their frustration in interview after interview, with comments from over 30 users such as:

• “I never quite know what I’m doing after a year and a half.”
• “If it’s too complicated, it just really isn’t worth it.”
• “Not intuitive at all.”
• “To this day, I don’t know how to check voicemail.”

A repeated sentiment from the over 30 group was that a great many cell phone features are impossible to learn and that cell phones are “out of your control” because you try to do one thing, and something different happens. Or, if you do learn how to do something, it’s so complicated that you forget several months later when you want to do it again. More information about the study can be found at www.bowenresearch.com.

About Bowen Research

Since 1992, Bowen Research has specialized in studying how consumers feel about interactive entertainment and high tech products from practical and emotional perspectives.