RIM's forthcoming Blackberry Curve 9300 has been putting on a show for the cameras again, but this time in much more detail. The 9300 isn't exactly anything to get terribly excited about in terms of specs, it is after all essentially your bog standard Blackberry with 3G thrown into the mix, but it should at least be a bit less expensive than the top tier models so no doubt it will attract its share of fans. The 9300 has been out and about before, but usually in blurry pictures. Well here we have it on video for a glorious 7 minutes thanks to the chaps at Mainguyen, a Vietnamese mobile site. The video is pretty good quality and crucially offers a fairly extensive look at the handset and confirms some of the specifications that have already come to light such as the 3.2 MP camera. The video is, as you would expect, in Vietnamese, but you can still get a good feel for the device just by watching

Apple announced iPhone 4G on june,2010 and for the first time Apple has changed the iPhone Design or as I can say (Famous Design) and made it different in a little strange way as some popel think its like a Cheap Samsung but one of its Great features that Attract Apple fans & Consumers is the 5MP camra and the A4 CPU 1Ghz the same CPU that apple has put on the iPad.

The iPhone 4G is a new product in Apple world and they sold about 2M Device until now and still selling. But is it great as people is buying it or just because many people are just used to buy any New phone that come out to be Up-to-date with the latest technology ONLY . But to be True 256MB Ram & 1Ghz CPU can do a lot of Multi-tasking on the 3.5” HDNA Capacitive Touch Screen . But Should I buy an iPad or get the iPhone 4G!!?

Ans: if you want something is in the same performance of the ipad but has two cameras and can be used like a Mobile phone and fit in your pocket…Get an iPhone 4G and Don’t worry about the Antenna problems it will be solved on the OS 4.01 as it’s a Software issue Not Hardware issue (According to Apple)!

Samsung are on a mission to save your screen! The South Korean manufacturer is working on a new type of Super AMOLED display, one that will be very tough to break. OLED-Display.net are reporting that within the next two years Samsung aim to have in place ultra-rugged, nigh on unbreakable smartphone screens shipping out to OEMs. Interestingly the report doesn't make mention of the digitizer. Why is that interesting? Well the digitizer is the part of the display that registers touch input when you make contact with the screen.  At any rate you can get an idea of just how tough these new displays will be from the video below. Two screens, one ordinary and one super tough, are put through their paces using a mallet and there's no prizes for guessing which one passes muster.

The new screens use plastic AMOLED panels with polyamide protective film. It seems this works well enough.

Samsung expects to push the new AMOLED into mass-production within the next two years.

University and Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, have created and released a new, open-source digital photography platform, called Fcam, (short for 'Frankencamera'). It allows developers to create new capabilities for digital cameras, and users to take advantage of a whole new class of photography apps. The platform is available as a free download for the Nokia N900, starting today, at https://garage.maemo.org/projects/fcam/.

Fcam allows the creation of new digital camera applications that help users overcome some of the shortcomings of their devices or create interesting new types of imagery. It is part of the Camera 2.0 project, created in collaboration between Nokia, Stanford, and other partners.

Nokia Fellow Kari Pulli said: “The N900 is a camera phone, but it runs a version of Linux almost as complete as that installed on personal computers”. For this reason, it was chosen as the host device for the Fcam platform.

The researchers have already created a series of new photography apps for the platform, some of which will also be free to download. These three will be available from the Fcam project page:

Fcamera is an example camera application that uses Fcam libraries and drivers. It is released in source code to serve as a starting point for programmers to create their own camera applications.

Low-light Assistant helps in situations where there is not enough light to avoid the choice between a quick exposure that will look sharp, but dark and noisy, and a long exposure that will have enough light, but likely be blurry. Instead, the app captures two images in rapid succession and then automatically combines them, resulting in a photo that is both bright and sharp.

HDR Capture helps in situations where there is too much light, such as a portrait of a person with a bright sky behind her. The camera takes up to three images with different exposure settings and combines them to an image that shows the details of both the foreground and background objects, without under or over-exposing any of them.

Photo-trickery is also on the cards. One of the applications described in a research paper captured the position and trajectory of playing cards thrown into the air with complete clarity through the use of two flash units, each behaving independently. The paper will be presented next week at the SIGGRAPH conference in Los Angeles.

The hope, though, is that once Fcam is in the public domain, Nokia developers and camera programmers will work to create a whole new class of programmable camera applications which will be gathered together on the project web site.

What other applications would you like to see emerge if your device's camera had a bit more brains behind it? Personally, a slimming effect on selected subjects (me) would definitely be of interest.

Apple seems to have really gone to lengths to prove that it's not just their own wayward progeny experiencing dropped signal issues, but smartphones from a variety of manufacturers. Nokia had already come in for a pasting from Apple at their press event, but Apple are apparently not content to leave it there as they also made a video showing the Nokia N97 Mini dropping from a full seven bars of reception to a scant two bars. Mind you the video doesn't say whether that resulted in a dropped call or lost data as has been the case with the iPhone 4. It also flies in the face of Nokia's claim to put antenna performance over a handset's design. Watching the video you'll notice that it's another tight grip of death, not exactly what many iPhone 4 users have been doing to be fair. Lets Wait and see How Nokia will reply to this Video!