Mitsubishi are showing at CeBIT a Symbian phone. The phone is in the planning stages (currently best thought of as a concept phone). Features include a 1/4 VGA screen, a high resolution camera (megapixels), Memory Stick Duo slot, and Voice over IP technology. Sounds nice! All this from a company who has no public link with Symbian.

The concept is a:
Free style Mobile Phone with a high resolution camera. It is easy to change the style, from the viewer style to the camcorder style or the camera style.
When the style is changed, the function is changed also.

Some of the features are:
• Sending and receiving data using wireless LAN
• High resolution camera (Mega pixels)
• Memory Stick Duo
• QVGA LCD
• Symbian OS
• Picture
• Video
• Voice Phone (IP using wireless LAN)






This is evidently a future phone in development, but this gives us a hint of what the next Symbian phones are likely to like. It gives an indication of why Symbian will be powerful - all of these relatively complex features are not easy to implement. By using Symbian OS manufacturers cut down considerably on development costs. They get a custom desinged, flexible OS from a company who is keen to encourage them to differentiate the software.