It is beginning to look like Sony Ericsson may be having a little competition with their 12 megapixel Idou mobile phone quite soon as LG has committed to releasing their own 12 megapixel camera phone sometime this year.

LG UK marketing head, Jeremy Newing has confirmed LG is likely to release a 12 megapixel handset to compete in the megapixel race while at Mobile World Congress 2009.

LG, unlike Sony Ericsson or even Samsung, doesn’t have stand alone camera segments to protect and thus is more likely to produce more complete features so to compete with dedicated camera. A 12MP cameraphone will probably generate 3MB files which should be ok for local storage but would take slightly longer to send.

So we can probably expect better lenses improved optical zoom, improved image stabiliser, ISO settings and face detection.

Source — itproportal