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Motorola launches 5 Mega Pixel Phone ZN5

Motorola has finally launched a 5 Mega Pixel Camera Phone after Nokia, Samsung, LG & Sony Ericsson. The phone is named ZN5 and contains a CMOS sensor developed with the help of Kodak. It's a candybar and has a morph keypad like the Moto Rokr E8.

It also has Xenon Flash, Auto Focus and a 3.5 mm jack. The icing on the cake is the presence of Wi-fi. The only noteworthy omission is 3G and GPS. It is the first camera phone to have RAW support and also can save image files in TIFF format. Video Recording however is disappointing at QCIF.

The audio quality of ZN5 is excellent and is considered on par of other music phones like Moto Rokr E8 & Samsung i450.

It is a very good camera phone, it's relatively cheap and the image quality is also good. Now let's wait when it finally hits stores.

Specs in detail :

Quad Band GSM
2.4 inch TFT QVGA Display
Touch Sensitive Keypad
Wi-fi
Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP
5 Mega Pixel Kodak CMOS Camera with Auto Focus
Xenon Flash
Crystel Talk Technology
3.5 mm jack
FM Radio

Sony Ericsson launch C905 8 Mega Pixel phone

Sony Ericsson has launched the C905 handset which is seen as a successor of C902 handset. The CE 905 upes the specs with a 8.1 Mega Pixel Camera and Xenon Flash. It's based on the new A300 platform and sports Wi-fi & GPS. Sadly it yet doesn't come with 3.5 mm jack and Video Capture is still QVGA.

It's specs are

8 Megapixel with AF
Xenon-Flash / Photo-Flash combo
2.4 inch QVGA-Display
HSDPA
HSUPA
Quadband support
A-GPS
Wi-fi
160 MB Internal Memory
2 GB Memory Card included
Geo Tagging
TV out
QVGA 30 FPS Video Capture
FM Radio with RDS
Bluetooth 2.1
A300 / A3 Platform

Nokia 6260 leaked

Pics of Nokia 6260 have been leaked. It looks like Nokia 6220 Classic. It is rumored to be based on S40 & the specs of 6260 can be speculated as :

5 Mega Pixel Camera with lens cover & Carl Zeiss Optics
Dual Led Flash
GPS
HSDPA
2.4 inch screen with 16 million colors
FM Radio with RDS
S40 5th Edition

Here are the pics

Nokia N85, N79 & 5800 Tube leaked

There have been leaked images of N85, N79 & 5800 Tube.
The N85 was earlier also leaked & is rumored to have :

5 mega pixel camera with camera lens cover & Carl Zeiss optics
Dual Led flash
GPS
Wi-fi
HSDPA
S60 FP2
Dual Slide with mutimdia buttons
Music keys
3.5 mm jack

The N79 is rumored to be Candy Bar version of the N85 without the music keys. It looks like a cross between N78 & N82.

The 5800 "Tube" is Nokia's answer to the iPhone. It is rumored to have :

3.2 mega pixel camera with Carl Zeiss Optics
Led flash
GPS
HSDPA
Wi-fi
S60 Touch
Large Touch Screen with 640 x 360 resolution
3.5 mm jack

Here is the rumored N85

Here is the N79

Here is iPhone rival Nokia 5800 "Tube"

Sony Ericsson 8 Mega Pixel phone leaked

Sony Ericsson who have been pushed to the no.5 slot by LG are bringing a 8 Mega Pixel phone. The phone will in the Cyber Shot Range & will be named as C905. It's codename is Shiho.

It's specs are

Cybershot-candybar
8 Megapixel with Auto Focus
Xenon-Flash / Photo-Flash combo
2.4 inch QVGA-Display
HSDPA
HSUPA
A-GPS
Wi-fi
TV out @ VGA 30 FPS
Bluetooth 2.1
A300 / A3 Platform

Here are some pics of Sony Ericsson Cybershot C905 "Shiho"

Source : Mobile-Review Forums Image Courtesy : Esato

Nokia N Series phone leaked

A new Nokia N-Series phone has leaked. The pictures display it as a N00 phone but everyone is speculating it as N85 or N88. The phone is believed to have the following specs :

5 mega pixel camera with camera lens cover & Carl Zeiss Optics
Dual Led flash
GPS
Wi-fi
HSDPA
S60 FP2
Dual Slide with mutimdia buttons
Music keys
3.5 mm jack

The phone looks quite like a mix between N96 & N81.

Here are the pics

Image Courtesy : Engadget

Apple 3G iPhone announced

Steve Jobs today announced the 3G iPhone after days & days of media frenzy, rumors & leaks. The 3G iPhone has 3G (obviously) & GPS in it. Even with the 3G, the battery times reported are really amazing for the Phone. The 3G iPhone is rated at 300 hours of standby time. 2G talk time is up to 10 hours (it's 8 hours with the first gen iPhone), while 3G talk time is 5 hours. It will be able to allow 5-6 hours of 3G browsing, 7 hours of video playback and 24 hours of audio playback.

The form-factor is mostly the same. Same 3.5-inch multi-touch screen, same button-less face, minimalist design - but with a few changes.There are going to be some incredible applications and games for the iPhone available through the AppStore - and it looks like free or $9.99 is going to be the pricing structure. At least we won't have to worry about which application is going to be cheaper than another.

And, the iPhone 3G will launch in 20 countries worldwide on July 11 for $199. Talk about affordable - there won't be any of those "it's too expensive" arguments against the iPhone 3G floating around that were seen last year with the original iPhone's launch.

Let's recap the specs a bit.
It's got Quadband support, Triband 3G support, Wifi, GPS, Bluetooth 2.0, 8GB & 16GB Flash Storage, normal headphone jack, same 3.5 inch 16 million color screen, same 2mp camera.

The new features of the 3G iPhone (apart from 3G & GPS) are :

Contact Search

Bulk Deleting

Saving Images

Scientific Calculator

Parental Contols

Support for Various Languages

There will be a Black & a special White Version

Image Courtesy : Gizmodo

Samsung SGH i900 announced

Samsung has announced the Samsung i900. It is believed to be an iPhone rival and has the following specs :-

Network: quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE + HSDPA 7.2Mbps
Wireless: stereo Bluetooth (A2DP), WiFi
Display: 3.2-inch WQVGA (240×400 pixels) touchscreen
Camera: 5 megapixels with auto-focus, featuring face and smile detection as well as auto-panorama shots
OS/UI: Windows Mobile 6.1 with Samsung's widget-friendly TouchWiz user interface running on top of it
CPU: Marvell 624MHz
Other: built-in GPS, accelerometer for auto-rotation, optical mouse
Two models will be sold: 8GB and 16GB, that can further be expanded with microSD memory cards
Availability: from June 2008, Europe - July 2008

It was earlier leaked & then a few live pics were also leaked. The good thing about the i900 is the presence of MicroSD card slot just like Nokia N96, which will allow up to 32 GB of Disk Space.

Samsung i900 live pics leaked

Well I reported a little while ago about Samsung prepping an iPhone competitor with better specs than iPhone, now I've got hold of some live pics of the Samsung SGH-i900.

Let me recap the specs of i900, it has got a full-body, 3.5-inch (240×400) touchscreen with some sort of fingerprint-scanner/touch-sensitive navigation pad at the bottom of the display and Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, HSDPA, WiFi, FM radio, 5 megapixel camera, TV-out, 16GB of onboard storage, microSDHC card slot, and Bluetooth 2.2 with A2DP along with huge 1500 mAH battery - all packed into a 112×56×13mm package.