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Sony Ericsson IDOU

Feb 16, 2009 gps navigation, gps phones, sony

Sony Ericsson IDOU will probably be the highlight of the MWC 2009 (mobile world congress in Barcelona) for the company. However keep in mind IDOU is only a concept name until they’re ready to market it.

Until we get a list of full specs you’ll have to make do with these features:

• Symbian OS
• 3G
• 12MP camera with Xenon flash
• 3.5″ screen
• GPS receiver

Here is a demo video:

If you find yourself asking “what am I supposed to do with 12MP camera on my phone here is your answer from a commenter an engadget:

ANY cameraphone which uses a single, fixed lens smaller than a US dime will be diffraction limited at laughably small resolutions. We’re talking 2, maybe pushing 3 Mpxl if it’s a particularly good lens given the constraints. Any more pixels simply capture diffraction effects; you get precisely zero additional sharpness by putting more pixels behind a piece of crap lens.

Furthermore, cramming 12 million pixels into a sensor measuring a few millimeters in each dimension means terrible noise performance. This is particularly true as sensitivity gets ramped up, so this thing is an absolute joke for any use except in broad daylight.

Moral of this story? Sony is flexing their marketing E-Peen here, so they can claim they have the camera with the highest number of pixels. Nevermind that those pixels are effectively unusable, and because of the noise performance actually will turn out performing WORSE than if they’d put a 3 Mpxl sensor in there instead.

If you fall for this crap, you deserve to have your money taken away.

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