As reported here on Cell Phones Etc. and across the Web, here’s your daily brief on what happened in the world of mobile phones this Monday, April 4th, 2011.
Sony CEO claims 8-megapixel Sony camera coming to iPhone 5
First off, Sony CEO Howard Stringer didn’t specifically mention the iPhone. He did, however, reveal that camera sensors shipments to partner companies have been delayed as a result of what happened in Japan, and Apple is one of them. Given that Apple doesn’t currently use any Sony sensors on any of their products and that there’s no other new product on the horizon for Steve Jobs and company except for the iPhone, it’s now rather easy to piece things together and come up with the conclusion that its the iPhone 5 he’s talking about here.
BGR
Nokia is going to launch 40 phones this year
Yes, 40. Sounds like a lot, right? Do note, though, that that’s already the total for the entire year and for all markets. 12 of the 40 are reportedly smartphones, one of which we’re hoping will be the much talked about but yet to be official N9. No timetable was revealed, but they did go on to say we can look forward to some big announcements after mid-April.
GSMArena
Bell officially releases the HTC Incredible S
The HTC Incredible S is now available on Bell. Its retailing for just $99.95 on a 3-year contract or $499.95 outright purchase. The Incredible S runs on Froyo, and comes packed with a 4-inch touchscreen, 8-megapixel camera with dual LED flash, a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera, WiFi, Bluetooth, and a 1 GHZ processor running under the hood. A Gingerbread is expected to be released later this year.
Mobilesyrup
redsn0w untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.3.1 released for Windows and OS X, lacks iPad 2 support
The iPhone Dev Team is at it again. They’ve released the newest version of redsn0w, 0.9.6RC9, that can jailbreak iOS 4.3.1, and best of all, it’s untethered. redsn0w o.9.6RC9 is compatible with the iPhone 4 and iPhone 3G S, and is available for both Windows and Mac OS X.
Engadget
Amazon considering jump into NFC mobile payments
With Google already on-board and Apple expected to follow suit, it’s not exactly surprising to hear that Amazon also wants a piece of the upcoming NFC pie. NFC is expected to hit it big this year, and it would certainly serve Amazon well to be among the first to support this feature. Apart from mobile payments, Amazon can also utilize NFC for marketing purposes, where users can acces product info through Amazon’s website by simply tapping an NFC tag. According to a source, Amazon is expected to arrive at a final decision on whether to adopt NFC this early on in the game or not within the next 3 to 5 months.
Geek
