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The Samsung i8910 Omnia HD in this review is a superb combination of high-end feature phone and slick touchscreen smartphone. If you demand the very best features from your phone, but you don’t want to lose the ease of use of a touchscreen, the Omnia HD is quite possibly the only phone you need to consider.

At its heart, the Omnia HD is all about video – and high-def video at that. Capable of recording and playing HD video at 720p, the Omnia HD gives you the best quality video of any mobile phone on the market, and shows it off in superb style with a super-clear 16 million colour AMOLED screen.

That’s not the end of its talents, though – not by a long shot. With superb 8 megapixel camera, GPS and slick touchscreen interface, the Omnia HD is perfect if you can’t decide between a high-end feature phone or a touchscreen smartphone – the Omnia HD gives you both!

Read our full Samsung i8910 Omnia HD review to see just what this mighty phone can offer you.

The remarkable Samsung Pixon 12 cameraphone in this review has the power to revolutionize your memories.

A bold claim? Perhaps, but ask yourself if the following has ever happened to you:

• A perfect sunset has been lost forever as your camera’s at home and your cameraphone doesn’t work in the dark
• Your friend’s birthday goes unrecorded as all the cameraphone pics you take end up blurred
• You spot the perfect picture – your baby’s first steps, your cat falling into your fishtank – but you miss the moment as your cameraphone takes too long to activate
• You take some cracking pictures on holiday, only to be disappointed with their insipid colours and fuzziness when you print them out

In short, your camera phone is letting you down, and losing you valuable memories that you could be looking back on for years to come.

You don’t need a gimmick – you need a camera phone that’s genuinely as good as a digital camera.

Step forward the Samsung Pixon 12, Samsung’s latest feature-packed phone, and its best camera phone to date.

In fact, as the following Pixon 12 review shows, as far as picture quality is concerned, it’s the best camera phone on the market today – it’s even won awards to prove it! Read on to find out why.

Before beginning this Sony Ericsson Satio review, we need to clear something up – Satio is pronounced Sah-tee-oh, apparently! Right, with that out the way, let’s have a look at what the Sony Ericsson Satio has to offer.

Imagine having the perfect mix of camera and phone, with a huge 12.1 megapixel camera capable of taking superb pictures, coupled with a touchscreen user interface and all the mobile connectivity and multimedia features you could ever wish for. That, in a nutshell, is the Sony Ericsson Satio.

When Sony Ericsson decide to create a flagship mobile phone, they don’t mess about – they create one that blows the competition out the water! The Satio might not be the first 12.1 megapixel camera phone on the market (the Samsung Pixon 12 takes that honour, at least in Europe and the US), but is the best – and by a long long way.

Read on after the jump for the complete Sony Ericsson Satio review.

Update: We’ve added a guide on how to choose the best camera phone, and picked our list of the best camera phones of 2009

A new video of the Sony Ericsson Idou has been released from Russian site Mobile Mail. Quite why the Russians seem to get advanced previews of the latest phones I’m not sure, but they do seem to get a heads up before the rest of us.

Whatever, the Idou is looking like one tasty new phone. Its main claim to fame is that it’s a 12 megapixel camera phone with a plethora of camera-oriented features. Not only will it be the best camera phone on the market in terms of megapixellage, it should also take the best pictures, and will certainly give the low-end dedicated digital cameras a run for their money.

What the specs don’t reveal, though, is what the phone is like up close – its overall size, usability and all round user experience. Fortunately, the video gives us some idea of what we can expect when the Idou is released in the second half of 2009.

More details, plus the video after the jump.

LG have officially announced the new LG Viewty Smart, a brand new upgrade to the 6+ million selling LG Viewty cameraphone. The LG Viewty Smart (or the LG-GC900 to give it its official, and even worse, name!) is LG’s top-end camera phone, and has been designed to take on the high end camera phones of the other mobile phone manufacturers.

To that end, LG have equipped the Viewty Smart with an 8 megapixel camera, the same 3D touchscreen UI as the LG Arena, and some seriously impressive specs.

Check out the details of the LG Viewty Smart after the jump.

Although Sony Ericsson formally announced the Sony Ericsson W995 at today’s press conference at MWC 2009, the one thing everyone’s been clamouring to see more of is the Sony Ericsson Idou – a phone that still so much in development, the company hasn’t even given it an official name yet.

The excitement should be no surprise, though. Whereas the W995 is just an 8 megapixel CyberShot phone with Walkman MP3 player (and I can’t believe I’m being so dismissive of an 8 megapixel camera phone!), the Idou will be a huge 12.1 megapixel camera phone, complete with Wi-Fi, HSDPA, GPS and a full touchscreen user interface that actually seems to work.

Details are scarce, but Sony Ericsson let some of the assembled journalists have a play with a pre-production version of the Idou. Fortunately for humanity, they recorded their findings on YouTube; and fortunately for you, I compiled five of the best Sony Ericsson Idou videos, which you can see after the jump.

Sony Ericsson have just announced details of a forthcoming touchscreen camera phone that they plan to release later in 2009. Currently called the Sony Ericsson Idou, it’s a whopping 12.1 megapixel phone based on the Symbian S60 platform with a 3.5″ 16:9 touchscreen and a xenon flash.

That’s all the details we have at the moment. Sony Ericsson have shown it off on-stage, but they’re not releasing any more info on it just yet. Boo!

More pics of the Sony Ericsson Idou after the jump.

Sony Ericsson have announced the Sony Ericsson C510, along with a couple of other mobile phones, at the CES 2009 exhibition in Las Vegas.

And about time, too! There have been loads of cool new gadgets on show at CES this year, including an entire army of new HDTVs, but very little in the way of mobile phone announcements.

Finally, Sony Ericsson have given us something new to report with the C510. More details after the jump.

I thought it was about time I did a Samsung Pixon review, as I missed the initial announcement of this monster 8 megapixel cameraphone, and the Pixon looks like it could become the most advanced camera phone on the market. As you’d expect from a top-end Samsung cameraphone, the Samsung Pixon has a huge range of features, some of them straight from a dedicated digital camera.

Samsung are serious about the Pixon. They see it as a genuine challenger to Sony Ericsson’s CyberShot brand of camera phones, and so are using all their digital camera experience to create a new range of high end camera phones based on the Pixon brand.

But enough of the background. What about the phone? Read on for initial Samsung Pixon M8800 review.

Cameraphone fans, the new LG Renoir will be available to buy on October 15h. Is this special? Hell yes! The LG KC910 Renoir takes all the features (and, LG hopes, the success) of the LG Viewty and runs away with – far, far away!

You can think of the LG Renoir as LG’s answer to the Nokia N95. Actually, it’s more than that – in many ways, it’s the successor to the N95 and what the N96 should have been.