Leaked picture of 5 megapixel Motorola camera phone
Back in May 2007, Motorola announced that it was teaming up with Kodak to develop a 5 megapixel camera phone. Since then, every other mobile phone manufacturer has released their own 5 megapixel camera, each of which produces excellent results that are on a par with low-end digital cameras from a few years ago.
Every manufacturer, that is, except Motorola, who, despite their announcement over 7 months ago, still haven't produced an equivalent phone.
Now, though, a new leaked photo has emerged that shows what could be an actual Motorola-Kodak 5 megapixel camera phone - exactly what Motorola promised all those months ago.
The pic itself isn't necessarily convincing - it could very easily be a be-Photoshopped fake - but if Motorola are to have any chance of succeeding in 2008, they simply have to release this phone, just to stand still. With the Nokia N95, Samsung G800, Sony Ericsson K850i and LG Viewty, all the other mobile phone manufacturers are fully accounted for, leaving Motorola struggling just to stay in the same place.
Already the company has gone from the number 1 mobile phone manufacturer to number 3, with both Nokia and Samsung overtaking it, and next year will see camera phones with 8 megapixels and a plethora of advanced image enhancing technologies. If Motorola don't release a new 5 megapixel Motorola-Kodak camera phone, they'll be sending out a signal to the market that they can no longer compete, and their mobile phone division will literally be dead in the water. 2008 is going to be an interesting year for the company.
[Source: EngadgetMobile]
