Samsung Pixon gets 12-megapixel camera upgrade

This one just out. Samsung has announced the Pixon12, a 12-megapixel touchscreen camera-phone due out end-June in Europe, with a Q3 launch date for Southeast Asia. Aside from a higher-resolution image sensor, the Pixon12 packs a Xenon as well as LED flash, 28mm wide-angle lens, Wi-Fi, dual-band HSPA, GPS for navigation and 720 x 480-pixel video capture at 30fps. Most of these are upgrades from the earlier Pixon, save for, oddly a smaller 3.1-inch touchscreen on the Pixon12 since both Pixons are similarly sized. Pricing details were unavailable at the time of writing.

Next-gen iPhone autofocus, compass revealed?

A Chinese-language blog UMPCFeaver posted pictures recently that its claims are the first ever photos from a functioning next-generation iPhone. The site translated through Google displays images of iPhone OS 3.0 running some of the rumored new iPhone features we covered here, here, here and here.

According to the report, the new iPhone contains an auto-focusing camera that uses an onscreen square that can be moved around with a combination of taps and dragging to choose the object to focus on. The rumored digital compass and its software is shown as well. Other features in iPhone OS 3.0 are demoed on the site like MMS--supporting video and photos, copy and paste, the Voice Recorder app, etc.
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Sony Ericsson Aino: I know, I know, it's the PSP phone

Sony Ericsson recently unveiled a couple of prototypes alongside the Idou--sorry, Satio--including a phone that points the way towards a possible PSP phone. The Sony Ericsson Aino--Aino being a character in Finnish mythology whose name means "only", myth fans--beams your PlayStation 3 content direct to you wherever you are. Wowzers!

The Aino boasts an 8-megapixel camera and comes with a wireless dock and headphones. It will sync with your PC over Wi-Fi or 3G, and features a Bluetooth headset, all straight out of the box. But what's really rocking our socks is the fact that the Aino can connect wirelessly to PS3 from anywhere in the world. From your living room to Timbuktu, if you have digital content--TV shows, films or music--on your PS3, then you can access it through your Aino*. You can't play games, sadly, but you can--get this--switch your PS3 on and off. Magic.

Right, that's enough from us. Click through our gallery of ill-lit but lovingly posed photos for more on the Aino.
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Japanese university uses iPhone to keep tab of students

If American school children have to resort to some special mosquito ringtone to use cell phones at school, a university in Japan is doing the opposite: Giving cell phones to students. And not just any cell phone--the iPhone 3G.

According to Asiajin, about 550 students and staff members in the School of Social Informatics at Tokyo-based university Aoyama Gakuin received the iPhone 3G for free earlier this month as part of their study materials.
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