LG KC910 camera phone
LG are rumoured to be working on the LG KC910, a flagship uber-phone that’s set to take on the forthcoming Sony Ericsson C902 and blow it out of the water! The C902, if you recall, is a monster camera-phone with 8 megapixels, xenon flash, auto-focus, and a variety of features for taking better pictures.

The LG KC910 offers all of these features, and then crams in a whole load more just for fun. How does widescreen video recording at 30fps sound? If that’s whet your appetite, read on for more after the jump.

LG KC910

The LG KC910 will be an 8 megapixel camera phone complete with image stabilization, xenon flash, and automatic face detection. All these you’d expect in a flagship cameraphone (well, you would since the announcement of Sony Ericsson’s C902, anyway!).

So to help it get an edge over its rivals, LG have added widescreen 720×480 video recording at 30fps to the mix as well. In addition, you get a WVGA (800 x 400) touchscreen, and what the rumour is describing as ‘completely new’ user interface.

LG have focused on video recording before in an effort to differentiate their phones from the competition. The LG Viewty, for example, was a good 5 megapixel camera phone, but where it really differed from similar 5 megapixel camera phones was in its ability to shoot videos in slow motion at 60 fps.

It seems this is now part of their overall strategy for new uber-phones. It’s obviously working, as they’re not losing market share, and it really gives them an edge over their rivals that they can talk up.

Competing 8 megapixel camera phones

The LG KC910 should be available by October 2008, which means there will be at least two 8 megapixel camera phones on the market before Christmas. There’s also rumour that Motorola are also working on an 8 megapixel monster, but I’ll believe that when I see it, which just leaves Nokia and Samsung.

I find it hard to believe that the two most innovative phone manufacturers don’t have a comparable phone up their sleeves; indeed, Nokia’s been rumoured to be working on an 8 megapixel phone since 2007, while Samsung released an 8 megapixel CMOS sensor specifically for camera phones in March this year.

All this leads me to think that Christmas is going to see a battle royal of uber-camera phones. Enjoy it while you can, though, as next year should see the battle shift towards devices that focus more on the Mobile Web, as both the iPhone 3G and new Google Android phones bring the Web into people’s pockets. Once that happens, a usable mobile Web experience will be essential for any phone, which will force the manufacturers to focus their efforts on interfaces, software, browsers and services.

[Source: MobileCowboys]