At a recent international press conference Ericsson announced that by 2012 consumers should see the introduction of camera phones featuring 12-20 megapixel cameras. According to Ericsson, the units will also be capable of recording high definition video footage.<\/p>\n
"We have an image of a mobile terminal equipped with digital camera and camcorder capabilities of the future," said Jonas Lundstedt, Ericsson’s director portfolio management<\/p>\n
The terminal’s display will support a resolution of 1024×768 and an operating frequency of 1GHZ. <\/p>\n
Ericsson also expects the high definition recording capabilities on mobile phones to be the equivalent of dedicated current high end camcorders.<\/p>\n
In terms of communications, Ericsson expects the phone to support at least 100Mbs LTE internet connections. <\/p>\n
Current HSPA technology has a maximum theoretical transmission speed of 7.2Mbps. “HSPA evolution” is expected to emerge later this year, and is expected to increase maximum data speed transmission to 21Mbps. <\/p>\n
LTE is said to follow HSPA evolution over the next few years, and will increase theoretical bandwidth speeds to around 100Mbps.<\/p>\n
In South Africa we are just getting comfortable with regular 3G technology which is limited to 3.6Mbps, so local LTE implementation will definitely take a bit longer to get here. <\/p>\n