What is Nokia up to now that it has launched a bunch of new phones and mobile gadgets? Well it looks like the Finnish manufacturer might be working on a 12.1-megapixel camera phone which should suit the needs of passionate photographers.

Unfortunately the picture you see happens to be a fake and you should not get your hopes up any time soon. A 12.1-megapixel camera is certainly going to be installed on a future Nokia phone but we might still have to wait a long time for that to happen.

On the other hand, considering that this 12.1-megapixel camera phone idea has already emerged on Flickr, we should assume that at least some people are thinking about such a handset. Who’s to say that Nokia isn’t thinking similar thoughts too?

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It seems that a handset manufacturer by the name of Altek has come forth to announced their 12megapixel touting T8680.

As you can see, this phone is as close as you can get to being a digital camera while still retaining calling features. Coupled with its 12MP sensor is a 3x optical zoom, xenon flash and video recording features making it a perfect alternative to an actual digital camera.

Other features include a 3″ touchscreen, Bluetooth, USB, TV out port and tri-band 900/1800/1900 GSM/EDGE capabilities. Unfortunately, there is no word if Altek ever plans to bring this phoen to North America but, as always, we’ll keep you posted.

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Tags: 12 megapixel, 3x optical zoom, altek, bluetooth, camera phone, t8680, touch screen, Uncategorized, xenon flash

AT&T has two new Sony Ericsson available for you, the C905a 8.1-megapixel camera phone and the W518a Walkman. We’ve already covered these Sony Ericsson handsets and those of you interested in a new camera phone or a Walkman handset can now head to AT&T and purchase their next phone. The C905a is available for $179.99 after rebates and with a 2-year contract and the W518a is now available for $49.99 after rebates and a 2-year contract. So what will it be boys and girls?

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Nokia fans in the USA will be happy to know that the N86 is going to be available soon on the NokiaUSA site and in flagship stores.

The N86 is an impressive camera phone which will offer you an 8-megapixel shooter, shutter speed of up to 1/1000 of a second, an f-stop range of 2.4-4.8 and a wide-angle lens. As for the cell phone capabilities you can expect the N86 to offer you a 2.6-inch AMOLED QVGA display, quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE and tri-band UMTS, 8GB of internal storage, WiFi and aGPS with access to Nokia Maps 3.0.

How much will the NAM version cost? Well you can expect to pay around $558 off contract since no carrier is going to announce the N86 just yet!

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LG has its very own 12-megapixel phone. The LG GC990 Louvre is going to be available at some point in the future but it has decided to make an appearance. The phone will offer you neat specs like a 12.1-megapixel shooter, a Schneider-Kreuznach lens, touch-focus features, a 3.2-inch 16:9 touchscreen display, DNLA, TV-Out, XviD and DivX playback, Bluetooth connectivity, aGPS and WiFi connectivity. In other words, the GC990 is a great camera that doubles as a phone. It gets even better! The Louvre can handle ISO of up to 3200 for images and it can record video up to 720p at 30fps. Have we gotten you all excited about it? So now we need some prices and arrival dates! What do you say LG?
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Dell has released a photo printer that uses Zero-ink technology.  The new Dell Wasabi PZ310 Ultramobile Photo Printer accommodates up to 12 sheets of adhesive-backed ZINK Paper, and can connect to a digital camera thru PictBridge or wirelessly to a computer or camera phone via Bluetooth. The Wasabi produces prints measuring 2″ x 3″ (50 x 76.2mm) and this little unit is small enough to fit in a pocket, measuring just 4.8″ x 2.9″ x 0.9″ and weighing 8 oz with the battery.

The 450mAh Li-ion battery can develop 15 prints per charge with prints produced in 55 seconds. If you don’t have Bluetooth, the Wasabi can also be connected using a USB A connector. Note that not every Bluetooth enabled phone will work with the Wasabi Mobile Printer. They need to support the BIP, FTP, or OPP Bluetooth transfer profiles. Retails for around $149.00 from Dell.

Tags: camera phone, Dell, Photo Printer, Printers, PZ310, Ultramobile, Wasabi, Zero-ink, ZINK

Verizon is certainly not too happy about the fact that the Pre and the iPhone 3GS are taking all the headlines these days. And I’m not sure if Big Red has anything hot enough to offer its customers. How many Verizon customers will switch to Sprint or AT&T?

Just in case you don’t want to switch carriers you should be aware of the fact that Verizon has a couple of new phones available for you, the Casio Exilim and the Motorola Rival A455.

The Casio Exilim is a phone made for the photographer in you. It comes with a 180-degree rotating display and a 5.1 megapixel although Verizon you should know there are some phones out there capable of taking 8 megapixel pictures which would suit better to passionate photographers. Although this Casio Exilim will come with camera-like features that other phones lack

Here are some of the most important features:

• 5.1 megapixel auto focus camera with flash, lots of photo related features and video recording
• 180–degree rotating display
• optical 3x zoom
• resistant to water, humidity, salt-fog, shock, vibration, dust, solar radiation, altitude, temperature.
• bluetooth
• up to 8GB microSD memory
• music and video playing capabilities
• V CAST Music with Rhapsody (Subscription, Wireless and PC Downloads)
• V CAST Videos
• GPS
• 2.3-inch 65K TFT Color

The phone is available right away online and you’ll have to pay for it $279.99 after a $50 instant rebate and with a two-year contract. Hmmm, so you’re telling me that for $199 I could get a new phone with some photo features, bigger screen and lots of apps?

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Tags: Apple, At&T, At&T, camera phone, Casio, EXILIM, iPhone 3GS, Mobile News, Mobile Software, Palm, pre, Sprint, Sprint, Verizon, Verizon Wireless

Samsung has recently announced an addition to their Pixon line of mobile handsets, the Pixon 12. The Pixon has been around for a while and has been known to feature high resolution cameras. And if you’ve been paying attention you’ll know that as far back as February Samsung was rumored to be working on a 12MP phone.

Well, the Pixon 12 takes this to a whole new level featuring a 12MP camera that Samsung seems very excited about saying it’s a world’s first. However, the camera’s resolution isn’t the only thing that makes this a beautiful handset as it also has a 3.1″ AMOLED touch screen with a 10,000:1 contrast ratio, a fast-image saving feature with only 2 seconds of downtime between shots, an auto-focus feature, a 28mm wide angle lens and WiFi support.

Word has it the Pixon 12 will make its way to Europe in June and other regions sometime after.

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The last we heard of Nokia’s 8MP camera touting N86 was back in February when we first got wind of it. Well, up until now there was some speculation regarding whether or not the phone would ever hit the States.

Luckily, the above image was found in the FCC’s datebase confirming that the phone is at least in its early stages of hitting North American shelves.

With so many great phones on their way out the N86’s 8MP camera, OLED display and dual-sliding action is sure to have it standing out from the rest.

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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?

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If you want the Memoir camera phone from Samsung, then T-Mobile is the carrier you’ll want to go to starting with February 25. The phone will be available for $249.99 after $50 mail-in rebate and with a two-year contract. Yes it’s expensive!

I think I mentioned this a few times already and I’ll say it again: the Memoir offers an 8 megapixel camera with a Xenon flash, CMOS auto focus, 16x digital zoom, a full touchscreen and a camera menu that will take your pictures to the max. The phone will sport features like blink detection, face detection, anti-shake and geotagging. Ready to pay the price for the Memoir?

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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 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!

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Verizon will launch the new Casio Exilim phone at some time in the future, but until that happens we are left with these leaked photos of the device. A blog from South Korea managed to get them and launch them for everyone to enjoy.

As for specs we already know what the FCC documents say about the device. It will support dual band CDMA, EV-DO Rev. A and Bluetooth connectivity. It will come with a 5.1MP camera, an unconfirmed 3x optical zoom and a WVGA screen. Need more details? We’d like to have an arrival date and a price. Anyone care to leak?

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Tags: camera phone, Casio, EXILIM, Mobile News, Verizon, Verizon

Who said that dreaming won’t get us closer to the future? Sony Ericsson spoke about its future plans for its camera phones business. In about 4 years from now we’re going to probably have camera phones that will be able to shoot 12-20 megapixel photos, full HD video recording and a 1024×768 pixel display. Behind the screen there’s going to be a 1GHz processor and data speeds of 100+ Mbps via LTE or some other fast connection. With all that in mind we can’t help but remember the days when Sony Ericsson were thinking break-up thoughts.

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November 3 is the day when all 5 Motorola lovers will see the MOTOZINE ZN5 get released. Motorola is getting it ready for the holiday season right? We don’t know actual prices for now but we’ll probably get them in about two weeks! In the mean time here’s what you can expect from this camera-phone: (more…)

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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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It was only yesterday that I showed you how small a 5 megapixels camera from Sharp could be. That’s a camera that will be inserted into lots of mobile devices.
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In the mobile world the smaller and the faster the better right?
What you see in the picture above is a 500 asian coin a 5 megapixels camera from Sharp.
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With the recent launch of Thrrum MMS Search, camera phone users now have one more reason to be excited. Now, all the users have to do is take a picture of any text – books, product labels, or any printed material – with their camera phones and send the picture using the Multimedia Message Service (MMS) to m@thrrum.com. The user then gets the low down about the text sent directly to the user’s phone.

The new Thrrum MMS Search helps people get the information that they need with just a few key presses on their phones. It’s easy, convenient, and nifty. What’s more, it’s free of charge for AT&T wireless subscribers in the US.

After the introduction of this new search feature, the sales of camera phones are sure to grow in numbers. The Thrrum MMS Search not only gives the people a new hype, it’s actually something that can be of help to them — presenting a new approach to innovativeness and learning. Bad news for those who have plans of copying this MMS Search technology, though – an extensive suite of patents pending worldwide protects this piece of genius.

via: mobile88

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