Mebius NJ70A netbook - the first with integrated optical sensor LCD Pad

Sharp has unveiled its latest and very impressive netbook: Mebius NJ70A. It is expected that Sharp will be announcing Mebius NJ70A in the coming press conference soon. Some of the features include 10.1″ display with an Atom N270 CPU, and Intel 945GSE Express Chipest, 160GB of HDD and web cam. Most importantly, it features an integrated 4″ optical sensor LCD with led backlight and 853 x 480 resolution, one of the first to be seen in a netbook! The Mebius NJ70A netbook will be in stores in Japan.While this Netbook is just plain standard, the optical sensor LCD is really impressive and lets you use either your finger or a stylus to write memos or emails with its handwriting recognition mechanism. Other functions also include playing the piano, zooming in and out on documents is just like you would do on the iPhone.

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.