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Filed under: Handsets, Sony Ericsson

It’s tough to predict the future, especially with cutbacks to R&D budgets in the face of a global economic slowdown. Still, it’s continuously nice to see a forward-looking corporate-slide related to mobile handsets from the taller, blonder half of that Sony Ericsson partnership. LTE and fast CPUs are certainly no surprise, nor is that 1,024 x 768 XGA screen resolution that Japan’s superphones are already bumping up against. The most compelling vision is that of the embedded camera sensors: 12-20 megapixels capable of recording Full HD video by 2012. Adding more fuel to firey speculation that handsets are about to find their persons embroiled in a megapixel war. Fine by us, just as long the optics and image processing are there to support such a resolution. Even though 12-20 megapixels seems high compared to the 5-8 megapixel cell phones we see today, those numbers are entirely within reason when you recall that Samsung hit 10 megapixels in Korea two years ago. In fact, we wouldn’t be suprised in the least to find Ericsson’s mythical device on the market well prior to 2012. Combined, these features certainly make for a tantalizing glimpse at the wireless handset future.

Ericsson: 20 megapixel cellphones shooting Full HD video in 4 years originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Handsets, HTC, KDDI, Windows Mobile, EV-DO, CDMA

Hard as it may be to believe, not every CDMA phone out of HTC is destined for North American soil. The company clearly sees the potential for its Touch Pro to win the hearts and minds of Windows Mobile lovers the world over, so it has partnered with KDDI au to bring it to Japan as the E30HT next spring. Thing is, au’s a CDMA network through and through — with EV-DO, of course — so it comes as no surprise that the version launching over there looks suspiciously like the one coming to Sprint and other CDMA carriers in the coming months. Can’t wait until the first part of 2009 to put it in your pocket? Well, tough cookies — but at least you’ll be able to catch an early glimpse at CEATEC at the end of this month where the E30HT is scheduled to make a cameo.

[Via Engadget Japanese]

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Filed under: Handsets, HTC, KDDI, Windows Mobile, EV-DO, CDMA

Hard as it may be to believe, not every CDMA phone out of HTC is destined for North American soil. The company clearly sees the potential for its Touch Pro to win the hearts and minds of Windows Mobile lovers the world over, so it has partnered with KDDI au to bring it to Japan as the E30HT next spring. Thing is, au’s a CDMA network through and through — with EV-DO, of course — so it comes as no surprise that the version launching over there looks suspiciously like the one coming to Sprint and other CDMA carriers in the coming months. Can’t wait until the first part of 2009 to put it in your pocket? Well, tough cookies — but at least you’ll be able to catch an early glimpse at CEATEC at the end of this month where the E30HT is scheduled to make a cameo.

[Via Engadget Japanese]

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