The smartphone software could then use this to work out which part of its camera's image should be superimposed and what angle of the interior image should be shown.

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Most notably, the 3D effect only works in a limited viewing range, so if you hold the device at an angle or not directly in front of you, the image goes blurry.

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With a few taps of his pen he rotates the image so the customer can see how the car will look from any angle.

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Its newly designed, large-aperture, 4x optical zoom lens (with the maximum aperture of F2.0 at wide-angle end), high-sensitivity, back-illuminated 16 megapixel CMOS image sensor, and sensor-shift Shake Reduction system ensure sharp, high-quality, low-noise images.

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