Sony Ericsson unveiled its new high-end 12MP camera phone named ‘Iduo’ during Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona. Adopting a 3.5-inch 16:9 touch screen, the Iduo features a built-in GPS receiver and WiFi support. According to the company, it is expected to be available in the 2nd half of the year in selected countries.
Design of the phone looks quite impressive and its something different that Sony has done to this phone and made it look apart from rest of its phone models.

With what next tag line in their all ads, it looks like Samsung is in a marathon race of creating fantastic mobile phones. Every time they come up with a new model, they surprise me. This time we will be talking about the new Samsung Tocco which is also known as Samsung SGH-480 or simply F480. Holding the phone in your hand, first thing you will notice is the big 2.8 QVGA color screen which is a pure pleasure to have in phone. Having a bigger screen means more space on screen for doing work because this phone is sully touch screen phone so having a big screen is definitely a plus point. A touch screen phone with small screen is a real pain, anyone having such phone knows well.

There are many cool features in this phone and what I like most is the balance of all features. You think of any latest feature found in multimedia phones and you find it in the F480! Bigger screen of this phone will allow you to surf web easily without need to scroll insanely and the features like EDGE will help you get the maximum out of your GPRS connection. This phone when loaded with a GPRS connection will be like carrying a small laptop as this phone has so many features and computer capabilities that you may not miss your laptop when traveling. Samsung has made a wonderful phone that everyone would like to have in pocket.

A 5 MP camera is there in this phone which makes sure you get almost standalone digital camera like pictures. When you have a camera phone which is 5 MP, you don’t have to worry about the picture quality because anything above 3 Mp will give you good result, below this, the picture quality is not good. Usually we have seen that daylight photos are good but night photos are very much blurred. This phone comes with a flash that brightens up the area just like any other camera flash and thus enabling good quality photos even at low lights. For storing these photos, you can install microSD cards for more memory space. If you take many photos then you can straight away install 8 GB microSD card and it will give you enough space for some time to come.

For entertainment, the phone comes with FM, music and video players and a heavy duty long life battery s so that your entertainment never comes on halt! There are many mobile phone deals available making the purchase of these new phones more practical.

Just before Christmas Nokia has announced its new Nokia N97 mobile phone with lots of new feature that was not seen in previous N series models. At the first look some people will say that its just another wanna be iPhone thing but its not, this phone comes with a full QWERTY keyboard which really makes typing a much easier task on phone. Key features of Nokia N97 are:

- QWERTY keyboard
- Touch screen display
- GPS
- 5 MP camera with dual LED flash and Carl Zeiss lens
- 32 GB internal memory and support of external memory card up to 16GB
- Bluetooth & A2DP support.
- FM radio and transmitter
- TV-out
- 3.5mm jack plug so that you can use any generic headphone of your choice

This multimedia phone is loaded with Symbian S60 5th Edition operating system, WebKit Internet browser, music and video playing as well as recording capability and its like having a small computer in your pocket with you. this phone is expected to be launched in the middle of 2009

Source: dialaphone.co.uk

Casio is going to launch a 5.2M camera phone ‘model 830CA’ featuring face detection and auto focus functions, which will be available in Japan market in the end of November via SoftBank.

This phone will come with a healthy 3-inch display with 240×427 resolution, the 830CA will support HSDPA, 1-Seg and global roaming service. Color choice with these phones will be white, black, orange and gray, it measures 50×106.1x15mm at 111g.

A very stylish phone from Samsung is here and it’s called Samsung i900 Omnia. This full touch screen phone have a massive screen and what I like most about this phone is that it has only two buttons on front, i.e., call and end button. We need only these two buttons on any touch screen phone but most of the touch screen phones we see today have lots of buttons. So why only these two buttons? Well for me I could do without these too and I am really waiting to see a fully “no button” phone and every thing from touch screen but I think mobile companies will think it as a crazy (and flop) idea and never make such phone.

Talking about technical details, Samsung Omnia is a PDA phone running on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional operating system. Interestingly it comes with a good 5 MP camera with LED flash for taking clearer pictures even in low light conditions and also some advanced camera features like advanced smile shot and face detection, otherwise not all PDA’s have such good quality camera for simple reason that PDA phone are already stuffed with so many chips inside that manufacturers find it hard to embed a bigger and better camera, this is one reason and other reason is that mobile companies think that PDA phone users are mostly business users wearing suits and they will hardly have time to play with their phone and take photos. Other advanced features of this phone are GPS navigation, GPRS with EDGE technology for faster browsing, large 3.2 inch QVGA LCD screen. Wider screen is really useful for any phone which is GPRS enabled because browsing sites on small phone screen is really a pain. It is available in both 8GB and the 16GB versions. I am already in love with this phone and it can be my next phone if something goes wrong with my current PDA. In that case I’ll look for mobile phone deals at online mobile stores and buy it.

Samsung mobile phones are durable and last long and their built quality is also great. Some companies are degrading their phone quality to help maintain their profit margin even after reducing price; this is bad practice while Samsung has maintained quality in their phones always. Omnia weighs about 125 grams which is quite light for a PDA phone of this category and comes with a battery which provides 10 hours of talk time or 430 hours of backup on standby. Again these figures are good considering PDA phone with big LCD screen.