Apple has been working on dual camera technology for years

While dual lens camera technology has been appearing on various Android smartphones for years, Apple has chosen to stick with its single 8MP camera for the iPhone. That doesn’t mean the company isn’t interested in dual cameras, however, quite the contrary. According to some reports out of Asia, Apple has been working on its own dual camera technology for three or more years and plans to implement the technology in future iPhones, just not 2015’s iteration. 

While some Android smartphone manufacturers have used the dual lens camera technology in some of their terminals for the past several years (most notably HTC and more recently Huawei), Apple maintained its rather conservative view on the matter and continued to equip the iPhone line-up with a single 8 MP camera that kept getting better with each new generation. Interestingly enough however, fresh reports from Taiwan suggest that Apple has been secretly experimenting with dual lens camera tech for over three years now. Additionally, the Cupertino-based company should push the technology on the consumer market once the supply chain will catch up. More details right after the break. According to a new report from Business Weekly Taiwan (citing Altek’s CEO, Xiaru Wen), Apple “has been studying the dual lens” technology for three or more years. For those of you wondering, Altek is the company responsible for the creation of dual lens camera modules for both HTC and Huawei. Xiaru Wen added that Apple already developed various applications to take advantage of the dual-lens camera technology, and that the only thing stopping the company from pushing the tech into production is the supply chain, which doesn’t seem to be able to produce enough units in a given amount of time (a.k.a. poor yield).