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Check Sony's announcement: http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press/200811/08-144E/index.html

The 12 MP sensor should be 1/2.5" while the 1/3.2" is 8 MP (same as used in the C905?).
8.1 MP CMOS camera... me want this very much.... NOT!
Don't you people see that iEye was being sarcastic? He was just poking fun at Apple and their mediocre phone.
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"Granted, they're suggesting here that apps should be smart enough to save and restore state as they're killed and restarted, but we figure it takes more than that to simulate true task switching."

I thought the iPhone was running OS X. If it does, why would you have to "simulate" task switching. Is this how the desktop version also behaves?
Yes, the radical redesign would be necessary, hence my comment about "the optics to support" the sensor.

Regarding the comments about lack of auto focus, I'm not so sure this is a bad thing. A camera with fixed focus is always ready to shoot immediately while auto focus always takes some time, plus that auto focus requires good lightning. Some auto focus cameras lack focus assist LEDs so these are very difficult to operate in low light situations. One example is my i-mobile 902. It has auto focus, Sony 5 MP CCD ICX495 sensor (also used in Canon's 5 MP P&S cameras), but no focus assist LED! It shoots extremely good night photos but only of typical landscape shots where infinity focus is OK.
MinceyFresh,
How much would you be prepared to pay for a camera phone with a CMOS sensor from a dSLR and with the optics to support it? And keep in mind that CMOS is only good when the sensor is very large. When you go down to the sizes used in P&S cameras and camera phones then picture quality suffers tremendously and high quality noise reduction software is required to cope with the large amount of noise.
"Just make sure you've got plenty of light to frame those shots if you're expecting anything close to a quality image."
Samsung, LG, Gigabyte and Samart produced phones with 5 MP CCD image sensors last year. I own Samart's i-mobile 902 and the sensor in this phone is Sony's 5 MP ICX495 which can also be found in for example Canon's SD450 digital camera. The drawback with CCD is the need for more power: if I shoot lots of photos, the phone gets hot and the 1100mAh battery drains quickly, almost as fast as a Windows Mobile PDA battery.
Tried to "cheat" with the URL http://www.engadgetmobile.com/photos/hands-on-with-the-lg-ku990/ but got only a "Coming soon" page.
120fps video? Ultrasmooth video, but at what frame size? 64x48?
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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