MWC 2009: Nokia's 8 Mega Pixel Camera Phone...Coming Soon??

Nokia is all tight lipped about its upcoming 8 mega pixel camera phone, which will be the Finnish giant'' flagship camera phone after the N82, which was one the best camera phones that Nokia ever came out with.

The phone's specs have leaked, which look something like this:

• 3rd Edition FP2
• 1200 maH battery
• AM OLED 2.6in display 240×320 resolution
• 8mp camera with aperture f/2.4 (good for low light)
• Mechanical shutter goes up to 1/1000 sec (good for action shots)
• Video 640×480 resolution at 30 FPS
• Scratch Resistant hard-glass front
• 3rd gen dual LED flash and video light
• 8GB internal storage + microSD slot

Lets wait and see what in store for all you Imaging Phone fans out there.

[via NAMP]

Hands-on video of Sony Ericsson's Idou, its first S60/Symbian Foundation smartphone

With the official start of the Mobile World Congress 2009 only hours away, Sony Ericsson announced its Idou smartphone at a press event in Barcelona. We sat down with a few Sony Ericsson execs to talk about the new smartphone, which will be the first device from Sony Ericsson to run on the new Symbian Foundation(INFO) platform. The open-source Symbian Foundation OS is being built upon Nokia's S60(INFO) user interface and the Symbian OS(INFO), and will look very much like the current Nokia S60 5th Edition that runs on the Nokia 5800 XpressMedia, if our sources are to believed.

Since the Idou is a prototype, and doesn't even have an official name yet, we were unable to get video of the smartphone actually powered up. But we did get a chance to play around with the hardware enough to at least be able to imagine what is coming.

For being such early hardware, the Idou felt solidly built. We could see the 12.1 megapixel camera's autofocus lens and Xenon flash, and the signage on the device told us that it will feature DLNA compatible WiFi and GPS as well. The display measures 3.5 inches across and is in a wide screen format, though we don't know what the actual pixel resolution will be.
In terms of the look and feel of the user interface, we can expect it to be fairly true to the stock Symbian Foundation UI, which is expected to look much like S60 5th Edition. Sony Ericsson reps did say that we should expect to see the same kind of Sony Ericsson user experience type apps on the Idou as we see on Sony Ericsson's feature phones and its Xperia X1, though there was no mention specifically of the Xperia panels, which we are not expecting.

We have been told that the full announcement for the Idou, which will contain its final name, full specs, and expected availability date, will come to us by early Summer of 2009. We're looking forward to it. For now, enjoy the photos and the HD video we shot of the device.

[via MobileBurn]

MWC 2009: Nokia Announces Nokia 6710 Navigator and Ovi Store

Apart from the E55 and the E75, Nokia announced the successor of its 6210 Navigator named Nokia 6710 Navigator. This phone focuses more on in-car navigation and pedestrian guidance. Maybe Nokia learnt some lesson from the poor in-car navigation of the Nokia 6210 and made this amendments. Nokia 6710 comes with the latest Nokia 3.0 maps applications with a 5 mega pixel snapper. You can also geo-tag your snaps, I guess this is becoming a must-have function for all phones equipped with Navigation capabilities.

Apart from the three phones, Nokia also announced its Ovi store that will offer users a lot of content, which will be based on their locations and preferences. The content that will be offered in the Ovi Store will range from rich applications, games to widgets fro smart phones. The store will be live from May and Nokia users with S40 and S60 devices can make use of various applications and products available on this store. This is Nokia's version of its App Store. Nokia has also opened up this store for developers so that they can showcase their applications on this store and earn 70% of the money, which comes from the sale of the applications they have developed. This strategy will encourage more and more developers to develop applications for Nokia phones and make their presence felt on the Ovi Store.

via NAMP

MWC 2009: Samsung Beat Disc Music Phone

Samsung Beat Music phone, which leaked sometime back has been made official today at the Mobile World Congress 2009. The Samsung M700's audio is powered by Bang & Olufsen, so you can guess how crisp and clear the audio will be. The phone is called Samsung Beat Disc Music Phone and has B&O's ICE amplifier thats gives you deep bass with crisp treble. As you can see in the picture, the phone's design has been inspired by the jukebox and apart from an impressive audio, the phone has a 2.6 inch touch screen with 3 mega pixel snapper. Other features include, slider mechanism for keyboard access, FM, Stereo Bluetooth, Music recognition and music tagging. Connectivity options include Wi-Fi and HSDPA connectivity.

via NAMP

Motorola at Mobile World Congress

Every mobile phone manufacturer appeared to be fully prepared to show their latest and even future line of mobile phones at the Mobile World Congress, except for Motorola. The international press seems unanimous in their conclusion; Motorola are going through a very difficult time and can't seem to overcome their difficulties. Besides the disappointing presentation of the mobile phone offer, hospitality with respect to the (photographing) press also seemed nonexistent. Several press photographers were refused to capture the Motorola products, even still after revealing they belonged to the press. Motorola seemed to have conveniently forgotten that these people travel around half the world to give their precious time for publications.

Motorola phones at Mobile World Congress

A ridiculous situation, the more so because it became possible to do the job after registering your name. In all honesty I must say that the same thing happened to all photographing journalists at the Samsung booth but one glance at the press pass sufficed to be able to do the job. Those who did enter the Motorola booth after the incident as described before, could only come to the conclusion that the Mobile World Congress came too early for Motorola or that the situation Motorola is in at the moment, makes it impossible to show something really new.

Motorola ROKR E8 mobile phone

At the end of last year an event took place in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Motorola attended this event and various models were showcased and nearly ready to get introduced. None of these were present at the Mobile World Congress and it was the Motorola ROKR E8 that was supposed to save the event. The Motorola E8 was introduced officially last year but up to now it has not been shown in public. It is a beautifully looking handset with interesting specifications and I am curious as to what extend Motorola is capable of getting this device to the consumer in a well-supported way.

Source: LetsGoMobile