Sony just announced the world's first 16.41 megapixel camera sensor for mobile phones. The Exmor R sensor is CMOS and is back illuminated.

The new sensors will drastically improve the picture quality by reducing noise and increasing sensitivity.

Additionally Sony will also launch two new lens modules which equipped with image sensors including the smallest and thinnest models for mobile phones.

This is the first time that the Exmor R is being commercialised for mobile phones.

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Augmented reality apps have been an integral part of Android based phones and Android users have craved for different apps based on augment reality. There have been a genre of coders that have always wanted to have their own augmented reality apps and if you are one of them then Qualcomm has some exciting news for you. Qualcomm has launched its own SDK for augmented reality based apps. Coders can now utilize this SDK platform to come up with their own styles of augmented reality apps, the possibilities are literally endless.

Qualcomm's SDK could surely be path breaking considering the fact that the Android community is huge and loves to experiment with what they get. We got to wait for a few days and we surely are going to get some crazy responses from developers around the globe.

First announced at Qualcomm's Uplinq developer conference, Qualcomm's AR platform has drawn interest from companies spanning a variety of industries, from traditional mobile developers to consumer product manufacturers and marketers. Mattel, Inc., a worldwide leader of toys and family products, was among the first consumer products companies to embrace Qualcomm's AR platform and developed a concept application to bring Mattel's classic Rock 'Em Sock 'Em® game to life.

[via Qualcomm]

Update: a few minutes after I published this article, the application went live on the Ovi Store. It's free, go download it here.

It's been an eternity since Nokia started releasing touchscreen S60 v5 phones with the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, yet one of their stellar home-brewed entertainment applications, Nokia Internet Radio, was never ported to these devices, to the dismay of many Internet Radio addicts.

Well, it seems the wait might be finally over, as I stumbled across a yet-non-legit version of Nokia Internet Radio today for S60 v5 or Symbian