Hot on the heels of their INNOV8 i8510, Samsung have announced the Pixon M8800 8 megapixel camera, that is only 13.8 mm thick.

The Pixon is a touchscreen phone with a 240 x 400 TFT LCD screen. The camera has a 16x digital zoom and includes auto-focus, face detection as well as geo-tagging, and there is a dedicated photo browser to view and share pictures.

There is only 200MB of internal memory - not great compared with other top spec phones - but you can add more with the micro SD card - upto 16GB, which should allow for lots of pictures.

The Pixon is expected in the UK from 1 November.

The expected specifications are:

PlanetN96.com report that the Nokia N96 has started shipping, first in the UK, for a retail price of £535.

Although it has not yet hit the shops, there is a cool video of what you get in the N96 box

Nokia have started gearing up for the launch of the new N-Series “super phone”, more a multimedia portable computer, the N96, with the launch of Facethetask.com.

You can see the device in action, along with some martial arts video shots (although we not too sure how the two are linked), as well as bid to win an N96 or try to ‘buy’ one by donating to WWF.

There are 96 specal edition N96 phones that Nokia are releasing this way, and they are gauranteed to be with the lucky winners before the phone is actually released in your country.

Good Luck!

From PlanetN96.com

If you got a new camera phone for Christmas, or even a brand new digital camera you’ll probably have clicked up a number of photos by now, some of which you will have deleted straight away, whilst others you will want to keep.

Of course you have various options to display your photos but here are some of our favourites.

Get your digital pictures printed out

There are many services that will enable you to transfer your digital photos into good old fashioned prints, and you either need to take a CD, DVD or memory card to your local photo shop where they will carry out the service for you or there are a number of online services where you upload the photos you want printed and order them online. Snapfish is one such service, but there are others as well. Most will also have introductory offers: for example at the moment you can get 30 free prints from Snapfish.

Put a photo on your desktop

There are many places where you might be able to show your favourite digital photo, for example the desktop of your PC, your camera phone desktop, or on your PDA. The advantage of digital photos means that whenever you get bored with that photo, or you take a better one you can easily stop around.

Get a digital photo frame

A digital photo frame takes the desktop display idea one step further and allows you to display hundreds of digital photos in an electronic format, either as a slideshow, or by simply showing your favourite. Over the last few months the design and quality digital photo frames as improved immensely and of course the cost has also come down with digital photo frames now available for under £50. Visit Buy Digital Photo Frame for more information and a great selection.

And whatever option you choose, remember to back up your photos off your PC and onto a CD, just in case your PC stops working.

Manufactured in a joint-venture between Bang & Olufsen and Samsung, the Serene is probably unlike any other mobile phone you will ever come across. From the start it has obviously been designed by Bang & Olufsen and its pedigree is clear to see. The phone can best be described as a clam shell, and closed up has a slightly trapezoid shape. Read the rest of this entry »

Sony are reported to be working on a brand new mobile phone within the PlayStation brand. This would be a joint effort between PlayStation and Sony Ericsson.

This phone will bring a brand new videogame console to the mobile phone market and an official Sony in Japan has been reported as stating that Sony are planning this device to take full advantage of the handheld gaming market.

Given Nokia’s failures with the N-Gage and a difficulty in launching the N-Ggage application platform, this would seem to be a brave move on behalf of Sony, but the PlayStation brand is very, very strong, so it may suceed, where Nokia have failed. The market is potentially very big and the potential rewards could be hugh.

In addition to competition for Nokia’s N-Gage the PlayStation phone would seem to be a direct competitor for must have gadgets such as the iPhone but it would still seem that this device is a long way from launching.

With the launch of the iPhone on 02, we have glossed over the launce of the Skype phone/mobile link up with the 3 Network.

If you use Skype, then you know all about the benefits of free calls, particularly free international calls. And with a stand alone Skype phone costing upwards of £100 (of course access to the network is free if you use a PC), this looks lie a good deal. Free phone, with the starter price plan at £12 per month.

The phone comes with a built in 2 megapixel camera, music player and memory expndable to 1GB with an SD card.

If you don’t want to sign up to a contract the skypephone is avaialble on PAYG for only £49.99 and you get free Skype access for 30 days after you top up with at least £10. Becasue of this, the Skpyephone is going onto our Best Buys for Christmas list.

At 6:02 tonight, 02 and Apple stores will start releasing the Apple iPhone to the UK market.

If you don’t fancy queueing it is available direct from 02, Carphone Warehouse or from All Camera Phones, without needing to stand in the rain to get it!

The 2 days to go before the UK launch of the iPhone, exclusively on 02, this Friday, O2 have reviewed the 200MB monthly cap they were proposing for data downloads. Read the rest of this entry »