Here is good news for those who have pre-order the highly anticipated Nokia N86 8MP. The dual-slider phone is now available for purchase in the US market. It is no longer a pre-order on Amazon. Priced at $468.99, the Nokia N86 is actually Nokia’s new imaging flagship. The phone comes jam packed with a superb 8MP shooter with dual-LEDs flash, GPS, S60 3rd edition FP2 operating system, US 3G up to 3.6Mbps on the downlink, and WiFi. The Nokia N86 8MP also has a 2.6-inch AMOLED (active matrix organic light-emitting diode) screen that reproduces sharper and brighter colors with better battery consumption. The 3G-enabled N86 offers high-speed connectivity for fast and easy upload of your photos and videos to sharing and social networking sites. [Engadget via Upcoming Cell Phones]
Sony Ericsson has announced their latest GPS-enabled phone, which is known as the Sony Ericsson U10i. The UMTS HSPA phone features an 8.1MP digital camera with flash, a microSD cards for storage expansions, a slide-out keypad, a full touch screen display, Bluetooth, and a 1000mAh removable battery. The handset is also known as the Aino, which will be available in the U.S. market in the fourth quarter of 2009. [Navigadget via Upcoming Cell Phones]
LG Electronics has recently unveiled the LG-SV710 a.k.a. Suit during World IT Show 2009 in South Korea. Measuring 14.7mm-thick, this premium clamshell phone is specially designed for businessmen and comes with a high-gloss blue body, a 3MP shooter with video recording, and five new mobile games. The price ranges from 400,000 Won ($313) and 500,000 Won ($391). [AVING via Upcoming Cell Phones]
Verizon Wireless and Casio have joined together to launch the new Casio Exilim C721 that has a 180-degree rotating display, a 5MP camera with a 3x optical zoom, a LED flash, Auto Focus, and Image Stabilizer. Available in silver color, the camera phone is priced at $279.99 after a $50.00 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement. [Slashphone via Upcoming Cell Phones]
Here is Samsung’s latest 12MP camera phone which is dubbed as the Pixon 12 (M810). The phone also features a 3.1-inch AMOLED touchscreen display with 720×480 resolution, a 150MB of internal memory, a microSD slot, GSM/GRPS/EDGE, HSPA, GPS, and an FM radio with RDS. The Pixon will be available in June in Europe, and August elsewhere. [OLED Info via Upcoming Cell Phones]
SoftBank has rolled out Sharp AQUOS SHOT 933SH 3G camera phone that comes equipped with 10-megapixel CCD camera. Measuring 110.6mm × 51mm × 16.7mm and weights 127grams, the phone also features a 3.3-inch VGA (854 x 480) wide LCD display, a 0.8-inch OLED sub-display, up to ISO 12800, 1-Seg support, GPS, Bluetooth connectivity, global roaming service, and video recording up to 10MB capacity. Available in Ivory, Black, White, Bordo and Blue, the Sharp AQUOS SHOT 933SH retails for 47,520 Yen ($497). [AVING via Upcoming Cell Phones]
Samsung Telecommunications America and T-Mobile USA have released the Samsung Memoir. The handset will be available from February 25th onwards on an exclusive basis from T-Mobile USA. It is a touch-screen handset that comes jam packed with a 8MP camera with auto focus, 16x digital zoom, Xenon flash, adjustable brightness and flash, blink detection, face detection, anti-shake to reduce blur and geo-tagging. There are also five different shooting modes. Using the Memoir, you can record video for up to an hour depending on the type of resolution you use. Its TV-out allows you to share your favorite memories with family and friends. Other features include Samsung’s TouchWiz user interface, widget support, 3G connectivity, a full virtual QWERTY keypad, haptic feedback and A-GPS. No word on pricing at this time. Video after the jump. [Press Release via Upcoming Cell Phones] More
Hitachi’s new Wooo is part of Japan’s KDDI AU Spring line. What makes this handset cool is that it comes with the ability to display 3D videos and pictures. Its 3.1-inch display offers 845 x 480 resolution and can be swiveled horizontally to be more TV-like. Other features include microSD memory card slot, 1Seg TV tuner support, and e-wallet support. There is no word on pricing of this Japan-only handset. Stay tuned for more updates. [Gizmodo via Upcoming Cell Phones]
The Sony Ericsson C510 Cyber-shot is the first camera phone in the world that adopts the smile shutter technology. The handset is powered by a 3.2MP camera module with face detection feature and auto focus camera lens. The mobile phone supports GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 and UMTS/HSPA 850/1900/2100 and comes with Access NetFront Web browser, Java, Bluetooth, Geo tagging of photos (cell-id), and Google Maps. Available in Future Black or Radiation Silver, this camera phone will be available in selected markets from Q1. [Slashphone via Upcoming Cell Phones]
Sharp will release the new Sharp SH810C camera phone for the Chinese market. It is an 8MP camera phone that comes equipped with a huge 3 inch LCD AVS with an 854×480 resolution. No word on pricing at this time. [Akihabara via Upcoming Cell Phones]
