Back at You, Nokia...

In the 24 hours following Nokia Oyj's announcement of 5 new handsets, including the first megapixel camera, Nokia's competition has fired a deafening salvo back, including over 30 news phones and the first 2-megapixel camera phone.

Max Wang in Singapore, writing for DigiTimes broke the news of LG's 2-megapixel phone, at the Communicasia show. He writes that the SD330 phone features a built-in 2-megapixel camera, and that it "...garnered much attention at the event." In addition, LGE introduced multimedia capable models including the LP3000 and SC8000 and two new WCDMA phones, the U8100 and U8150.

At the same Communicasia show, Max reports that Samsung has launched 20 new phones. In addition, Samsung plans the launch of a 3-megapixel camera phone in addition to the 2-megapixel which they already sell in Asia. Samsung's new phone are in five categories as defined by Samsung, Flip-type, Camera phone, Trendy, Personal trendy, and Smartphone. Max includes a beautiful photo of Samsung's new Smartphone, the SGH-V500.

Finally, the busy Max Wang filed this report on 10 new phones being launched by Panasonic including their X300 Motion Video handset which comes with a pop up LCD color screen for easier filming.

Certainly a busy day at Communicasia and it speaks to the enormous competitive pressure, especially from Asia, that Nokia is now seeing in the marketplace. Perhaps Jorma should look again at the handset release schedule and reconsider the phones that have been delayed...