LG is ready to launch the Viewty Smart in the UK so if you want an 8 megapixel camera phone then you should check this LG out. The phone will feature a 3-inch touchscreen display with WVGA resolution, 7.2Mbps HSDPA, aGPS, WiFi and 3D S-Class UI. And just in case you would prefer a 12 megapixel camera phone then you should save your money and keep waiting. LG is rumored to launch one later this year.

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We were expecting T-Mobile to roll out Samsung Memoir and that has just happened today. If you need a new 8 megapixel camera phone, then the Memoir might be exactly what you need. Besides the 8 megapixel sensor you will get a Xenon flash, smile and face detection and geo-tagging capabilities. As for the phone you get 3G support, touch support with Samsung’s TouchWiz UI and A-GPS.

The phone will cost you $249.99 with a 2-year agreement so you can go right ahead to the nearest T-Mobile store to grab one. What do you think? Are you ready for the Memoir?

Nokia’s first 8 megapixel camera phone was said to arrive in the second quarter of 2009. And it looks like the N86 won’t arrive any time sooner. In fact, UK customers will get it around July 22. You can pre-order it right now but it won’t be shipped until that date. Expansys is currently displaying it and the pre-order price is about $850. That’s twice what Nokia said the 8 megapixel phone will cost. Will anyone pay that much for it? The smart thing to do is wait for a carrier to bring the N86 to you for a subsidized price. Or get an 8 megapixel camera phone from the competition.

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Nokia N86 is the first camera phone from Nokia to offer us an 8 megapixel camera. And it’s a wide-angle Carl Zeiss optics camera able to take great pictures both in bright and low light conditions. Besides great pictures it will also let you record videos. The camera phone will cost around 375 Euros in the second quarter of 2009 when it will be launched.

Features like geotagging or fast uploading to Ovi Share and Flickr are also available. The internal 8GB memory will let you store about 4,000 images and if that’s not enough, it can be upgraded via microSD card up to an extra 16GB of space. The 2.6-inch OLED screen features scratch resistant hardened glass which will come in handy while you’re browsing through your recent pictures. The phone features full sync capability with a PC and TV-out support. It will come preloaded with Nokia Maps, OVI integration, a built-in compass and an integrated 3-months license for full voice and pedestrian navigation. There’s also support for 3G, WiFi and Bluetooth so you won’t have any problems sending your photos to any destination you choose.

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It was only a matter of time until Nokia released its own 8 megapixel camera phone. The Finish company will announce the new phone at the MWC in Spain. The photo above appeared on Nokia’s site as it was taken with the deice. It’s a 3264 x 2448 pixels shot or an 8 megapixel Carl Zeiss lens. How will the phone look like? We have no idea yet but we’re count on it to fight against Samsung’s and Sony Ericsons’ current 8 megapixel camera phones.

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Sharp has a new phone ready for KDDI. This time is the SH-001 which will bring you a high-definition 8.1 megapixel sensor. Other features that will please the photographer in you are autofocus and Face recognition,and an ISO range of up to 2500. How big is it? Just 111 × 48 × 16.6mm.

As for the phone features, the SH-001 comes with Global Passport CDMA support and in order to improve your phone call experience there are various features like noise-canceling, Talk Slow and Clear Voice. The clamshell phone will be available in Japan only for now, and we have no idea if it will be ever land in other markets. No news on arrival dates and prices either!

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Samsung has a brand new 8 megapixel camera phone and we’ve already seen the looks of it. Sure the pictures won’t be enough to reveal all of those hidden features so we’d like Samsung to tell us more. But Samsung isn’t saying anything! At least not yet! People say that the new phone will be announced at the Mobile World Congress next month. Will Samsung use the event to promote it? Will this camera phone make it to the USA or Europe? Will anyone step up with some inside info about it?

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Samsung has already launched two 8 megapixel camera phones, the Innov8 and the Pixon. Well guess what? The company has one more similar device ready to hit the market. We have no name for it yet and we don’t have any official features of the handset yet. Besides the camera we will get a 800 x 480 resolution touchscreen display with TouchWiz user interface and camera features like Xenon flash and autofocus capabilities. When will Samsung release it? How much will it cost? What countries are going to get it? So many questions are left unanswered today!

The Samsung i8510 Innov8 might be closer to us than we think. The phone has just passed through the FCC and North American customers might see it arrive from AT&T and/or Rogers soon. The American model will come with dual 850/1900 3G support which means you will have great data support in case you want to mail lots of photos taken with that 8 megapixel camera. As always, we don’t have expected arrival dates or pricing just yet.
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The picture above isn’t all that clear but then again no leaked pictures are. It’s supposed to be an 8 megapixel camera phone from Samsung, referred to as the “Memoir”. The phone might arrive from T-Mobile in the near future and besides the great camera it will also carry a touchscreen and everything else this implies. We don’t have any clear specs yet and rumors say the phone might be similar to the Behold or the Pixon, both camera phones from Samsung.

The LG KC780 is a slider phone which has a great 8 megapixel camera. LG has announced it today and we’re going to take a look at its official features. Too bad there’s no 3G, WiFi or GPS to start with. They would have come in handy for sending lots of pictures to friends and geo-tagging them. But it looks like LG didn’t think about that!

Here are the official features:

• GSM 900/1800/1900, GPRS/EDGE connectivity
• 2.4 inch 240×320 QVGA 262K color display
• 8 megapixel autofocus camera
• FM Radio
• Built-in accelerometer
• Divx playback
• 140 MB of user memory
• microSD memory card slot (up to 8 GB)
• USB 2.0, Bluetooth 2.1 EDR
• 900 mAh Li-Ion battery, 6 hours talk and 450 hours standby time.

If you are interested in an mid-range phone with a great phone, the KC780 will arrive in Europe in November while other Asian markets are going to follow soon.

The LG KC910, or the Renoir, is finally available in Europe. Asia and Latin America will follow in November. Africa and the Middle East are next in December while China will get it in January. Something seems to be missing wouldn’t you say?

Here are the official features of the Renoir:

• Wi-Fi
• A-GPS
• 3G via HSDPA
• 8 megapixel camera
• DivX video and Dolby sound
• 3 inch, 240 x 400 touchscreen display
• 3.95 mm thick

The Renoir seems to be a worthy adversary. It has lots of camera options like the Touch Shot which lets you tell the camera what it should be focusing on. Not to mention it’s the slimmest 8 megapixel cameraphone available so far.

So LG hit me with some prices. And maybe with updated release dates for you know, only the rest of the world?

Sony Ericsson is taking its cameraphones very seriously. At the rate we are going we will probably have most point and shoot cameras replaced with cameraphones. We’ve seen plenty of cell phones sporting a rather good built-in camera. 5 to 8 megapixels is what we’ve seen so far and the 9 megapixel camera module is waiting to be inserted in various phone. Sony Ericsson is also rumored to launch a 12 megapixel camera sometime in 2009 so it’s not quite a surprise that the company wants to improve the features of its cameraphones.
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One of the leading retailers of cell phones and accessories in UK, Phones4U, has revealed that the Sony Ericsson C905 is all set to invade the United Kingdom this October. That means customers looking forward to its new 8-megapixel lens and a host of other photog-friendly features, not to mention the GPS with geotagging, will have a short wait until as early as October 10, to get their hands on this Cybershot handset. Apart from its much-talked about lens, the Cybershot C905 also has WiFi, Bluetooth, HSDPA support, GPS, and TV-out functions. Details about pricing are not known yet.

The KC780 is the LG’s 8 megapixel camera phone we’ve spotted last week at the FCC and now we have a better picture of it. This LG could be the slimmest 8 megapixel camera phone so far, although the Samsung Pixon is officially measured at 13.8 mm so far. (more…)

Samsung Pixon which is an 8 megapixel camera phone which we might have already seen before as the Bresson. The Pixon’s camera has auto focus, face detection and geotagging. A 3.2 inch touchscreen will help you visualize and manage all those pictures.
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Looks like LG wants to cover both the high and low end of things, just as it did when it entered the 5-megapixel fray with the Veiwty KU990 and KC550. As a companion to the already announced high-end KC910, LG seems to be working on a low-end 8-megapixel snapper, the KC780. The KC780 has already managed to slip by the FCC unnoticed and except for its powerful lens, it falls short (as LG expects) in many other areas. The slider is designed to work with quad-band GSM networks with speeds stopping at EDGE, and has Bluetooth, USB 2.0 support, and microSD expansion to augment the 140 megs that it houses internally. Not much to speak of, but if we are solely interested in a good cameraphone, this could serve the purpose. No details on pricing or availability, but as always, looks for us to tell you. (more…)

Besides the INNOV8 i850 which packs an 8 megapixel camera, Samsung has another 8 megapixel camera phone ready to be launched later this year. The Samsung Bresson M8800 is the handset I am talking about and it’s said to be launched on September 25th.
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We’ll consider this a rumor until Samsung decides to come out of the closet, but it’s hard to believe Samsung would be hasty enough to release another 8-megapixel cell phone when the first one, Innov8, is yet to be released completely. Supposedly, the Samsung Bresson M8800 will have a 3.2-inch 16-million color touchscreen display and this entry over at phones4u hints at GPS, “high-speed downloads” which could be dumbed down English for HSDPA, and a lithe body of just 15.5mm thickness. The codename “Bresson” is taken from French photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson, a fitting title considering its 8 megapixel lens. We have nothing else to go on other than these details and there isn’t even a picture to show what it might look like. But now that the rumor has started, we don’t think we will have to wait long to know more.

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We have seen two cell phones that can boast of a 8-megapixel camera as of now, but the LG KC910 has another trick up its sleeve, a touchscreen. Built along the lines of LG’s successful Veiwty, the KC910 is endowed with a 8-megapixel camera with a Xenon flash, auto and manual focus, face tracking, and smile/blick detection. It can also record videos at a whopping 120 frames, although that would probably mean recording in QVGA instead VGA resolution. Apart from the camera, the KC910 is also a multimedia behemoth, being capable of playing DivX and Xvid movies while putting out excellent sounds by way of Dolby technology. Coming to its connectivity options, this touchscreen cell phone has WiFi, 3G/HSDPA support, and built-in GPS for turn-by-turn navigation. There’s also a Jogging Buddy feature for the fitness fanatics, which uses GPS to track the user’s jogging routes and provide useful information. Photogs won’t have to wait long to get their hands on this device, as the KC910 is scheduled for an October release with an undisclosed price tag.