Samsung officially announced the Pixon12 (aka M8910), the world’s first 12 Megapixel camera phone. As an upgrade to the Pixon, the Pixon12 has a similar design. Pixon12 features a 3.1-inch AMODLED touchscreen display with 10,000:1 contrast and a 12 Megapixel with touch auto-focus, Xenon and Power LED flash, 28mm wide angle lens, Smart Auto mode and dedicated shutter button. The Pixon12 can record 720×480 videos at 30fps. It includes Share Pix function that allows users to upload photos and videos to social networking sites like Facebook, Picasa, Flickr, MySpace, Photobucket.
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Spotify, the streaming music service which is gradually gathering a large fan-base in Europe, has been plotting a mobile version. It recently hired a head of mobile and the speculation was that it would come out with an iPhone app first after releasing a teaser video. But today it’s released video of an Android app it’s being demoing to people at Google I/O.

The Android app is still very much a work in progress and subject to minor changes, but it gives a pretty good overview of their thinking. The demo highlights a number of features including playback, playlists, offline synch and music search.
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Skyfire, the server-compressed mobile browser that promises “the full web,” i.e. Flash support, on Windows Mobile and Symbian phones, has graduated from its excruciatingly long testing period. In a word, it’s great.

The release notes point to a few major changes from earlier versions of the browser, emphasizing better text rendering, faster startup, easier controls and improved compatibility with complex AJAX-driven pages like Facebook and Gmail. To be honest, the changes aren’t massive, but a few of them make noticeable differences.
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It seems as if almost every time there is an Apple announcement coming up, more rumors of a Mac tablet show up. This time around, TechCrunch is reporting that they have heard from OEMs and people who have held prototypes that a 10 inch Mac Tablet and/or large iPhone is on the way.

According to them, the price point for this product will be anywhere from $500 to $1,000 and “the project is very real.” Currently, they don’t really have any information about the specs of the machine other than those already mentioned, just that it exists. If you ask me, these rumors are getting somewhat redundant. That said, I wouldn’t mind at all if Apple were to release a tablet touch screen device if they do it right.
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Sprint has announced today that the Palm Pre will be available on June 6. Sprint announced that it will be available nationwide in Sprint stores, as well as at Best Buy, Radio Shack, and select Wal-Mart stores. The webOS-based phone will retail for $199.99 (after rebate and service agreement).
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Currenly, rumors for all over the net  that nokia has a plan to lauch thier newest high end phone, Well, according to the latest rumours circulating the internet now, Finnish mobile phone maker is planning to launch several new full-touch screen handsets that will be equipped with capacitive screens instead of the resistive screens that have been used in the company’s first mass market touchscreen device Nokia 5800 XM, as well as in their forthcoming flagship touch device, Nokia N97.

DigiTimes also reports that Nokia has decided to adopt Synaptics’ touchscreen IC solution for its upcoming high-end handset and smartphone to be launched in the third quarter, and it does not rule out the possibility of offering multi-touch functions, according to sources at Taiwan IC designers.
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Currently, Samsung has announced shipment of its latest 32 Gigabyte (GB) moviNAND, the highest density embedded memory card using 30-nm class process technology.

It improves the performance of high-end phones and other mobile consumer electronics when processing and storing large amounts of multimedia content.
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After announcing quite a bunch of Windows Mobile and Android devices, Acer finally launches two smartphones, DX900 and X960.

The first is a Windows Mobile 6.1 dual SIM handset with support for triband HSDPA connectivity plus quadband EDGE.
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Microsoft has begun offering the final pre-release version of its upcoming Windows 7 operating system.

On Tuesday the company pushed the Release Candidate build of the new Windows live for widespread user download.
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Nokia has just announced its newest handset to support Near Field Communications (NFC). NFC on the Nokia 6212 allows it to pair and exchange contents (music, video, calendar data etc) by tapping it with another NFC-enabled device such as a NFC-enabled photo frame, cellphone, speaker etc. Now, it has been extended to the classic 6216, to allow contactless payment via NFC. “The launch of the Nokia 6216 classic SIM-based NFC handset is a great step forward for payment and ticketing services“, says Alex Sinclair, the chief technology officer of the GSM Association.

The spec includes : Quad-band GSM, dual-band 3G (850/2100 MHz), 2-inch QVGA display, 2 megapixel camera, microSDHC support, Bluetooth and 22MB of user-accessible memory.

The Nokia 6216 classic is due to be available in the third quarter of 2009 in select markets with an estimated retail price of 150 euros before tax