HTC is likely to beef up its cameraphone department

While known for its superb business and sleek fashion phones, the innovative Taiwanese HTC stated , from BGR, that it would try to improve its cameraphone department.

Eric Lin of HTC said it would not compete in the megapixel race, as hyped by the flamboyant-yet-unproven Idou.

As quoted from BGR :

"We've seen plenty of research that says 5-6MP is the sweet spot for a camera phone, so would it make more sense to put a bad-ass 5MP sensor in one of our phones?

Clever. Intelligent. Why not create a killer imaging smartphone, with working 4x optical zoom, great macro support, and all the standard features and quality of digi-cam that will drop our jaws? Certainly bigger megapixel does not equal better images. And who needs that 12 MP loaded into our printers, or our commonly used Microsoft Picture Viewer.

I personally think megapixel race is worthless. People are not stupid, and they can buy great 10 or 12 megapixel digicam with much much higher image quality and peace of mind, than speculating in an exotic device like Idou. However, there are always early adopters, and these people will surely flock to idou.

HTCs are truly smarter. It may be small, but I belive it will continue to release carefully thoughts smartphones, not only bigger and stronger ones.

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Sony Ericsson Xperia 2 Has Some Rumors Spread By Sony Ericsson Managing Director of UK and Ireland

Oh, please. Another hype spread out deliberately by Nathan Vaultier, Managing Director of Sony Ericsson UK and Ireland, at MWC 2009.

While it is perfectly okay and common to generate buzzword as part of marketing tactic, but his statement should be clearer than this vague rant(quoted from BGR) :

"The Xperia brand is not just about Smartphones, it's about the latest and coolest thing in mobile phones. The next product will be very different to the Xperia X1, aimed at a different product segment and also enhancing the user experience."

Considering the failure of Xperia 1, the Xperia 2 would better be a really cool device, with reasonable price and killer features. And let's stop the hype-generating statement. We want a great phone. period.

While the Idou is also hot on the talk, yet its promise of "Entertainment Unlimited", in my humble opinion, is simply unrealistic. Samsung OmniaHD deserves to use this slogan much much more than Idou. Allright Idou will have 12 mp, but so what. Entertainment is about audio visual experience, and Samsung OmniaHD with HD recording and playback simply delivers the hippest entertainment up to date.

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Sony Ericsson W995 Walkman with 8 mp camera announced!

Sony Ericsson W995 Walkman with 8 mp camera announced!
CellFreakz Blog
by Beta Ismawan

Sony Ericsson W995 has been officially announced by Sony Ericsson. W995 is a high end sliding Walkman phone with 8 mp camera. W995 has 118 mb internal memory, and ships with 8 GB memory stick.


The display is 2.6" which supports 262k colors. Sony Ericsson W995 will be available in three colors : progressive black, cosmic silver, and energetic red.


Additional great features also on board W995 : aGPS, Google Maps™, Wayfinder Navigator™, Wi-Fi™, DLNA Certified™ and full PlayStation3 compatibility. With these features, you can adventure and go anywhere carrying W995.

Minor but useful feature of W995 is the phone stand, that enable you watch video on your with phone standing on the table.

Full specs here. And more images here.

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Sony Ericsson 12 mp camera officially codenamed Idou

Sony Ericsson 12 mp cameraphone officially codenamed Idou
CellFreakz Blog
by Beta Ismawan

While the 12 mp cameraphone from Sony Ericsson is still under development, Sony Ericsson 12 MP Idou has been officially announced. It is a 12.1 megapixel cameraphone with 3.5 inch touchscreen display. The resolution of the display is 640x320.

The phone has been codenamed "Idou", but it will not be the official name when released. Below are some images captured from its official website.


Front looks convincing with generous near-edge display. There are three thin buttons in the lower part. Apparently no physical keypad whatsoever, so we'd better pray it comes with regular virtual keypad to enable single handed SMS-ing just like common phones.


The rear part is simple, Cybershot-ish style of layout. Wew, that's 12 mp camera we are looking at!

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Sony Ericsson W395 : new basic Walkman phone

Okay. Didn't I mention there are already too many Walkman models launched by Sony Ericsson? Now the Japan-Swedish duet throws again another so-so Walkman phone, the basic Sony Ericsson W395. It's basic because it is a no-3G phone, and with no-GPS.

Entitled with the sacred "W" title, the Sony Ericsson W395 offers high quality walkman engine, decent display, 2 megapixel camera, and sliding form. It ships with 1 GB memory stick micro card. Roughly it can contains about 400 mp3 songs. It comes up in two options of color, titanium or grey. The picture I think shows the titanium example.

It is a great looker, but beyond that there is nothing really special. But Sony Ericsson seems target youth and first time user with this Walkman. Not the hard core like you and me. If that is the case, then Sony Ericsson W395 can succeed with its great look and quite generous memory capacity.

If it is launched last December, Sony Ericsson W395 could have been a cool Xmas gift for your kid or nephew.

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Sony Ericsson gets married with Facebook, The Child : Sony Ericsson C510

Sony Ericsson could not resist the temptation of Facebook, and it launches the new Sony Ericsson C510. At first I thought this would be another Cyber shot series from SE, but apparently, the handset is already optimized for messaging. Yep, one most notable feature is you can set your sms displayed as if it was chat session. So you can sms-chat, or even mms-chat, since you can insert pic or vid to your message on the fly.

But the story of Sony Ericsson C510 is it's heavily geared for accessing Facebook. Once your Facebook account is set up in the phone, the updates of your Facebook's friends status etc will appear in your phone. Sony Ericsson C510 also enables you to upload your pic directly to Facebook right after taken. There are not yet detail review on these features yet.

As Facebook has topped as the winner of social networking sites, quite likely other cellphone manufacturers begin to create device geared to Facebook just like Sony Ericsson did. Blackberry has also been providing Facebook for Blackberry to download.

So, have you updated your status, friend? :)

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Sony Ericsson AB-900 : Innovative Car Kit from Sony Ericsson

When you're driving in highway and suddenly your boss calls you, you know how hard it is to concentrate to the call while keeping car's speed and course right. Well that's why car kits created. Nokia has been providing lots of types for these kits, while it's quite a while since we heard of Sony Ericsson car kits.


Sony Ericsson just announced AB-900. Essentially, it is a car kit, plus some more features. It can wirelessly stream music from your phones, so you never run out of songs when you have long driving. AB-900 also equipped with 5 buttons to shortcut call to your 5 favorite numbers. And it can also store radio. The best part, though, it does not need any installation and battery operated. Most likely the sound will come out from the device internal speaker, though there is no confirmation yet about this.

The competition Nokia CK 600 offers bigger color display, and other features of Sony Ericsson AB-900, as well, except that Nokia CK 600 did not have FM radio in it. Aesthetically speaking, Nokia wins. The drawback of Nokia CK 600 though, is inflexible, because it has to be installed into car's electricity system. With Sony Ericsson AB-900, you can take it to any other cars you have without having to uninstall it.

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The Classic Phones That Changed It All

Well, since the first time cellphones introduced back then in the early 1990s, there are undeniably several phones that changed the face of the world, err, may be not the world, but quite by far and wide changed how we communicate and work.. So here they are, six phones that changed the way we live.

Nokia 7650. Released in 2002. The first Nokia that brought Symbian OS. Elegant by design, and strong in features, camera, java, symbian, but lacks external memory. Still, this device started the Symbian evolution, followed by Nokia 3650, 3660, 6600 and up until Nokia phones with latest Symbian we see today. A truly classic and beautiful phone!

Sony Ericsson P800. Released in 2002. The predecessor of P900, P910, and P990i as we knew. In huge competition with Nokia 7650, this phone was among the first who featured Symbian UIQ system. It also brought touch screen ability, the first time in cellphone industry with handwriting recognition and huge screen. Also packed with external memory slot, and camera. It was quite stylish and techie at its day.

Ericsson T10s. Released in 1998. This phone defined the meaning of compact size. Before T10s, cellphones were always bulky. But T10s started the thin competition! Loved by teenagers because of its compact size and bright colors, T10s were very iconic at its time. Though interface is a bit too simplistic and lacking flexibility compared to Nokia 5110, but still T10s got quite huge fan.

Sony Ericsson T610i. Released in 2002. The phone that defined the meaning of the word "style" in cellphone industry, and created a huge following. VGA camera, bluetooth, infrared (yes that day infrared was important), and wrapped in stylish duo tone colours made people go crazy after this phone. This phone may be one of the best selling model made by Sony Ericsson. 

Nokia Communicator 9110. Released in 1998. This is the phone that  pioneered the modern Communicator E90 as we see today. Actually 9110 is not the first communicator released by Nokia. Before that, Nokia launched Communicator 8880 and Communicator 9000, but these models were not very successful. Nokia Communicator 9110 already supported fax and document viewing, a very novel feature for 1990s phone. Actually, the Communicator form factor is very genious if we think about it. You can use it as regular phone, and by opening it, also as mini laptop.  

Nokia 5110. Released on 1997. This is it. The phone that is simply, legendary. The simple and easy interface, the generous number of text lines (at that time compared to its competitor), the snake game.. the exchangeable cover, all made this phone the idol for the crowd. Nokia 5110 cellphone is the one that brought GSM communication to the masses. May be the only downside of this phone is its ugly external antenna. Other than that, everything is fine. The sms capacity (for inbox and sent items) is 30 messages, which is quite okay for those times. 

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Sony Ericsson W902 : Hot or just a recycle of other Walkman series?

Walkman, walkman, walkman. And more walkman series launched by Sony Ericsson. It seems like the brand intends to saturate the market with its excellent (but become quite repetitive) walkman range handsets. Yet the recently launched Sony Ericsson W902 packs HSDPA, 3G, high quality 5 megapixel cam with LED flash, 8 mb external memory card included (with handset supports up to , FM radio, rather stylish though quite boring design, and great walkman player. For the price, it is quite a steal. 

According to GSMArena, it has one of the best stereo sound quality, even the website coronate W902 as "gifted musician". For you audiophiles, who needs to upgrade to the latest music phone, this piece of gem should be into your consideration. Contract free price is about $500, and this will soon decline in the next 6 months or one year. Compared to Nokia 5800 Express Music, the touch screen and Symbian OS from Nokia make it seems a better valued phone, but everyone knows that 5800's camera is poor. 

Check full, and awesome, review by GSMArena here.

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