Sony Ericsson "IDOU"

Sony Ericsson surprised us by announcing yet to be fully functional prototype, code named "IDOU". Its good to see that SE is finally moving around after the down fall of UIQ. No doubt this phone is the flagship device of the company which is dragging in the meltdown of world economy.

It is the first 12MP camera-phone which has seen its light. I don't know why companies are after MP race. Who needs this 12MP camera in a phone after all considering the size limitation of the phone it is very hard to fit a larger sensor. And without a sizable sensor its hard to produce vivid images. Another thing is size of picture which increases as MP increases so it will take more time to resize, transfer via bluetooth, or upload. They haven't said anything about video recording but i hope it will be at least VGA@30fps. The good thing about camera is that it has xenon flash which is very useful considering that most of us shoot more indoor than outdoor. It also features Geo-tagging, Face and Smile detection.

The next thing about this phone is its Touchscreen(640x360 pixels, 3.5 inch). It is unclear whether it will be capacitive or resistive screen . It packs Symbian UI which is still being developed by Symbian foundation. All types of connectivity options have been taken care in this phone still it looks beautiful and compact with dimension 111 x 54 x 15 mm.Release date and price is yet to be known. It seems that this phone won't land on to the market before September-2009.