Motorola QA4 Evoke - touchscreen slider phone

Motorola has announced the launch of a new mobile phone - QA4 Evoke. Similar to a number of phones including the iPhone, Palm Pre, BlackBerry Storm, etc, it has a full touchscreen but also with a sliding keypad. It seems that the mobile phone maker is taking into account want we all like to see - a physical keyboard.

The QA4 Evoke will feature the following specs:
CDMA 800/1900/1700/2100, Diversity 1900MHz and 2100 MHz EVDO Rev A
2.8” WQVGA 240×400 Touchscreen display
2 megapixel camera with 5x digital zoom
256 MB Internal storage, microSD expansion
GPS
Bluetooth
Widget-Based, customizable homescreen
MySpace, YouTube and Picasa integration
Full HTML browser
Centralized & conversational style SMS and email (POP3/IMAP4)
108mm x 50.5mm x 17.5mm dimensions

Sony Ericsson’s iPhone killer Idou announced

Sony Ericsson previewed their latest iPhone killer, scheduled to appear in summer 2009, during the company’s press conference at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The full touchscreen phone called Idou (Sony Ericsson does seem to have plans to change this code name to a more commercial friendly name in the future!) features a 3.5-inch touchscreen and a massive 12.1-megapixel camera, all running on a Symbian OS, more details to be revealed very soon!

The bar for the digital camera feature on mobile phones has been raised today with introduction of Sony Ericsson’s Idou. This iPhone Killer will have 12.1-megapixel camera with Xenon flash. The main display is 3.5inch with 640×320 resolution running Symbian S60 OS. Launch date is most likely sometime in the second half of 2009. Stay tuned for more news.