And you thought that Sony Ericsson would sit quietly and let Nokia claim the crown in smartphone’s camera sensor? The Nokia N8’s awesome 12-Megapixel sensor will soon get pawned by Sony’s new 16.4-Megapixel CMOS sensor. This would obviously find its way into their famous camera phone lineup, namely the Cyber-shot S006 smartphone.

In addition to all those megapixels, you’ll also get ISO settings up to ISO 12800, and the rest of the camera’s specs aren’t too shabby either, including a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, a 3.3-inch screen (said to be VGA, though we’re assuming it’s actually HVGA or WVGA), and built-in WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS. Unfortunately, all of that is paired with Sony’s own proprietary non-smartphone OS and it’s, of course, exclusive to KDDI in Japan for the time being (and only being released next spring). Too bad, there’s no way you can show it off to your Nokia friends if you’re not in Japan.

SOURCE via Akihabaranews