In a mobile conference I attended almost an year back, one of the commentator mentioned USA being a “Third World Country” when it comes to Mobile Network Freedom. Now, it is true to some extent because consumers don’t get many choices to pick the phone they want as almost all the carriers use the CDMA technology. They have to rely upon the national carriers for the device they are eventually going to use and some mobile phones never even reach the American shores.

T Mobile is realizing that American consumers want better/more pixels in their camera phones. T Mobile has officially announced that availability of Samsung Memoir on its network. Samsung Memoir is an 8 megapixel camera phone and it will roll on the 3G spectrum of T Mobile.

T Mobile had earlier launches two 5 megapixel camera phones, Motorola ZN5 and Samsung Behold and it seems that they don’t want to limit themselves in the battle to provide better camera phones.

Mobile consumers now look forward to buy mobile phones (if their budget allows) which can do multi-tasking and prominent of them being a good digital camera. It’s no common sense to keep a cell phone as well as a digital camera when you can have both of them in one device. This convergence has apparently made the Nokia the biggest digital camera manufacturer in the world as more people buy camera phones than the standalone digital cameras.

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