The Samsung M8910 Pixon 12 is a 12 megapixel touchscreen phone that is due to hit Europe in June, followed by other regions in August. Coming just days after rivals Sony Ericsson announced the 12 megapixel Satio, the Pixon 12 is notable because it will beat the Satio to market, and will probably be the first 12 megapixel camera phone on general worldwide release.
Closely resembling last year's M8800 Pixon, the most obvious improvement is in the camera area. The 12 megapixel camera aims to be every bit as good as a dedicated digital camera. Samsung have concentrated on giving the Pixon 12 a high-quality lens to ensure optimum image quality, there's also a Xenon flash and the M8910 has an intelligent autofocus system where the user can select the focal point of the picture by touching an object on the screen. Samsung say that the Pixon 12 is fast too, and users can move from shot to shot in about 2 seconds. This handset can also automatically adjust to different background and lighting conditions, and Samsung camera phones usually come with a load of other goodies too.
Seems That Nokia have mutely launched firmware edition 20.149.051.1 for the Nokia N78.No official Changelog accessible though but these are the modifications that have been documented:
Changes/Improvements/New specs I have found from v12.046 to v20.149: Standby screen:
When you scan for wireless networks in the home screen, rather than telling “No networks found” as in the previous version, it tells “No WLANs accessible”, also a few other slight name modifications in this menu.
Sharing online image in Nokia N78 standby screen appears to be different
When returning to the music player through the standby screen, it goes instantly into the player without losing in/out changeover as it did before when Theme
Effects are activated (an immediate reaction)
On the other hand, for entering other parts of Nokia N78 from the standby screen the fade in/out changeover still takes place.
When Music Player is working, and finding the track name on the display, and then when one song stops and goes to the upcoming track, the pace at which this takes lace is much better, though not perfect (there is still some lag).
Scrolling up and down from side to side the entries in the standby screen high-speed and not time-consuming like before.
Call log, Contacts and calling function:
Calling speed (from standby screen to Contacts or Call Log) and changeover to call/disconnected displays much quicker and enhanced
Faster recommence of music playback after call is stopped is a lovely feature in new Nokia N78
Volume bar is switched from ten dotted augmentation to constant colored volume triangle (this has also been mirrored in other menus and choices all over the phone)
Maps:
Maps of Nokia N78 upgraded to version 2.0
Here's Motorola 2009 smartphones latest picture; what sounds like to be renders of Motorola's upcoming cell phones lineup. And it's looking... quite sophisticated. There are just about no details on this Motorola smartphone 2009 for the moment, but hopefully they are all destining towards Verizon Wireless in 2009. The Motorola smartphone photo above looks cool.
Motorola is going to prepare its imminent product portfolio with smartphones. Rather than saturating the cell phone market with a variety of handsets ranging from the low- to high-end, Motorola will be concentrating its attempts on no over a dozen handsets for this year. The move is most probably required by a smaller staff, but could assist Motorola extinguish sophisticated handsets with powerful consumer appeal.
There’s some bad news for lovers of Windows Mobile-powered smartphones from Motorola, there is rumor that Motorola will be channeling the Windows Mobile platform supporting the open-source Android OS for all upcoming Motorola smartphones. The news is reported according to preceding announcements that had Motorola making a social-networking smartphone based on the Android OS, and report that Motorola has been strengthening their Android-development team.
The smartphone market isn’t exactly the kingdom of LG, whose handsets often bring style before utility, but a report from Korean Telecoms announces, that LG may be absolutely changing its status for 2009.
It sounds like that LG has become conscious and it has begun making great smartphones of its own if it desires to keep its market status. From Telecoms Korea’s information, industry marketers have observed that, “LG mobile phones made great pace in hardware but have been puny in smartphones, which needs classy software. The main concern should be focused on software than producing attractive phones like Prada and Viewty.”
It is reported that LG intends to launch more than 10 new smartphones in 2009 and that at any rate one of them has been validated to be running on Windows Mobile. Topping the list of smart phones is the LG Incite, supported by Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, Microsoft Office Mobile and Microsoft ActiveSync 4.5 the mobile is Wi-Fi Enabled and features a glossy smart design.
Specs also include acrystal-clear 3-inch touch screen with vibration feedback and a 3.0 megapixel camera and camcorder.
In the meantime Symbian and Linux-based smartphones are also being reflected by LG, but will just make them if they see that market response is encouraging.
Together with their plans for smartphones in 2009, LG has also announced its aims of producing these devices “million sellers.” Well, that should be straightforward, but only if LG doesn’t twist things up and gets it as it should be.
AT&T and LG have just launched a fresh sleek-looking multimedia device to the already flooded cell phone market. The latest LG CF360 is obtainable now at AT&T for $29.00 following a mail-in-rebate, and is available with the standard 2-year guarantee. If you are fed up with the too complex cell phone devices that have just come out of the market, the LG CF360 brings an easier and yet strong alternative. The LG CF360 shows off turn-by-turn GPS navigation specs through AT&T Navigator. This spec gives you with maps and real-time travel alerts displayed right on your LG CF360 phone. For its multimedia amusement specs, the LG CF360 brings a 1.3 mega pixel camera along with camcorder, AT&T’s Mobile Music, Video Share as well as CV. Apart from being a trustworthy cell phone and a GPS device, the LG CF360 can also be employed as a nice music player that is compatible with all music formats for example, MP3, AMR-NB, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA10. It also provides you subscription access to Napster phone, and a flair for recognizing tracks that you are listening to. For its messaging feature, the LG CF360 phone gives support for the standard text messaging and immediate messaging via AOL, Yahoo, and MSN. It also supports cell phone email. Other specifications of the LG CF360 are, a 2-inch QVGA display, 16 GB flexible storage, 3G/EDGE/GSM/GPRS/Bluetooth, downloadable games, media ringbones, and hands free. The LG CF360 mobile is a quad band mobile that provides more than three hours of talking time and ten days of standby time.
T-Mobile has just launched the latest Sony Ericsson TM506 Scarlet mobile phone. You can buy TM506 for $49.99 after mail-in rebate and with 2-year guarantee; the Sony Ericsson TM506 Scarlet brags a 2.0 mega pixel camera, modish form feature and design with a slew of other ingenious mobile phone specs.
The Sony Ericsson TM506 is a compact flip-phone size of which is just 1.8 x 3.7 x 0.7 in. and weight is 3.6 oz., so you’ll never have an issue carrying this phone anywhere you go. Among TM506 best features include, direct messaging support for all messengers, video features and playback ability. Music player with MegaTones, Stereo Bluetooth wireless tools, MMS picture testing, integrated GPS, 3G connectivity, and support for M2 Memory Stick for more storage. TM506 Scarlet cell phone also brings T-Mobiles’ myFaves services which provides users infinite any-network calling to any five friends with a myFaves scheme. The Sony TM506 features games, music files, and wallpapers.
Taking into account its reasonable price and if you don’t mind getting bound with T-Mobile’s service schemes, you’d also obtain other services for example, AOL Instant Messenger Service, Call Forwarding, Called ID, Call Waiting, as well as Conference Calling. A number of optional services are also obtainable including Caller Tunes that plays music with sound effects or short spoken clips when your friends are calling you.