All 12 megapixels of Sony Ericsson's Satio get poked and prodded by the FCC

I want this, i hope the US 3G version comes out soon. I just wish it had more on-board storage.

Anyone with the slightest optics background will tell you that 12.1 megapixels *will not* make for better picture quality in a camera phone.

It’s pure marketing misdirection that’s forced their engineers to increase the resolution (without, for example, increasing ccd size or lens quality, which is way more important in this case)

I agree with Jimmykicks.. 12.1 megapixels in a phone this size?? I don’t get why people get such a hard-on for massive pixel counts.

With any digital camera, as you add megapixels, you shrink the photo-site size so less light can be gathered for each pixel, resulting in degraded low light performance.

I have issues with my point and shoot camera under low light situations.. I can’t imagine how this camera will work!!

I’ll take my 3mp blackberry camera thanks.. I wish it was 2mp!

I agree with Jimmykicks, I wish the pics showed the optics and how large the lens on the camera is so we can determine if this 12.1 megapixel Camera Phone is truly a beast.

Pure Sex.

Let me find out SE got their swagger back.

@ jimmykicks 12.1 megapixels can and most likely will present sometype of an improvement in picture quality. Granted that this phone will never properly utilize the full megapixel rating, so in that sense it is a marketing move, but with added technology and an advanced optics system like Carl Zeiss it should take better pics than say an 8 megapixel cameraphone.

I just like the last part of the article… “Phone p0rn” lol

Any mega pixel count over 4 on a CELL PHONE is marketing hype, especially on a lens of this size. The only difference will be the size of the file. I can’t imagine this phone being that good, the functionality just isn’t there. I’ve used SE phones before and their native operating systems are too inflexible.

@ Jason

It will not.

Once you downsample that 12.1 shot in photoshop to something doesn’t look like complete crap, you will be left with more noise than if you took the same shot with a lower-resolution camera (everything else being equal). This is especially true for low-light shots.

Hawking cameraphones spec’d like this is simply a move to pull in rubes that don’t know any better.

8 megapixel is high enough for me, don’t know if there is really a viewable difference going to 12. Anyway, I like Symbian, but it needs a redo of the OS. Now Maemo5 is coming out, SE should have used that instead of S60 v5 edition. If this used Maemo5, I would be highly interested. I had the Xperia briefly and returned it. Lets see if they do this right this time.

sounds like a bunch of people with iphones read this article and felt like their e-penises were too small so they had to bash the phone, lol. All that I know is my old SE p1i(3.2mp) put to shame my BB bold’s 2mp camera and iphone’s camera. and assuming the lighting is good I suspect this phone will have a camera that puts to shame all of the above.

iphone fanboys are so tiring, I deal with them all day at work, all day with relatives, and just about everywhere else I go. bah. rather then bashing it and call it marketing why not applaud them for making an effort to really integrate a decent camera into a phone.

You’re an idiot. No one above your comment mentioned apple. You yourself must have some real jealousy issues.

I have to agree. Shutup. Isn’t AT&T and Verizon giving away free Bold phones now. I wonder why. Hmmmmmm

I sure wish every company on the planet would get off the touchscreen wagon. Touchscreens suck! Im sure the majority of touchscreen phone owners out there agree with me.

Any info on UMA

I’ve gone through a fair number of camera phones, ranging from 1.3mp to 8mp, and I can safely say I have seen the improvement from more megapixels in almost every case. the iphone users just try to say the mp’s are a marketing campaign because their 2mp camera is awful.
**disclaimer**
I owned an iphone for 3 weeks and took it back, the battery life and lack of physical keyboard made it worthless to me. The camera also sucked.
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if we went through this thread and asked everyone that said it was all a marketing stunt if they owned an iphone, I believe just about all of them would say yes.

you can also find pictures taken by the satio if you take a look around the internet for 2 minutes and you will see that despite the fact that it is a prototype still, the pictures are of great quality. not as good as my 12.1mp DSLR but good for such a small package.

@JohnBo: It runs Symbian S60 5th Edition, not a S-E dumbphone OS. Then again maybe you’re not a fan of S60 either.

don’t worry too much about the megapixels. the battery will only last long enough to turn the phone on and play a welcome tune. The battery will then die and then people will realise, that phone technology can’t advance this far until they create a friggin battery to power this ridiculous piece of kit.

I completely agree with the critics of the silly 12 Mpix camera. The backlash against the megapixel race is growing among photographers who actually use their cameras to take pictures. The tiny puny sensor and the small lens (with unavoidable diffraction) will limit the quality of the camera. I calculated the pixel density to the record high 44 Mpix/cm2 in an article on my blog (clickable) and explained why 12 Mpix in a cameraphone is a bad idea.

P.S. Satio might be a great smartphone, I don’t know.