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Due to the release of Sony Ericsson’s new Cyber-shot phone the C902, Sony have teamed up with Academy Award nominated director Mike Figgis (director of Leaving Las Vegas starring Nicolas Cage and Elizabeth Shue) for a unique film making project called Life Captured.

The competition gives you a chance to produce a day-in-your-life film from your mobile phones pictures. Entrants must use their phones to capture five pictures of their day and choose from four categories; morning, afternoon, evening or 24 hours. The pictures will then be uploaded to the website, where you can see the other entrants’ pictures as well.

The competition is open to 21 countries including Romania, Russia and South Africa and lucky winners will receive the new Sony Ericsson C902 Cyber-shot phone, with five of the best entrants being invited to London to see their film premiered at the Raindance Film Festival in October. The overall winner at the festival will receive a grand prize that is to be announced at the films premier.

Closing date for the competition is the 10th August. For more information and to enter visit the Sony Ericsson Life Captured website.

The ROKR E8 is the latest mobile phone/media player from Motorola and ticks all the right boxes when it comes to media playback on a mobile phone.

The candy bar shaped ROKR E8 comes with ModeShift technology that switches the device from a phone to a media player and to a camera with a touch of a button. The phone also features a navigation wheel for scrolling through your music, contacts and images effortlessly.

The ROKR E8 includes 2GB of internal memory and a microSD card slot to add an additional 4GB if required. The media player supports the usual audio formats like MP3, AAC, WAV and WMA and has a 3.5mm headphone jack and A2DP stereo Bluetooth for connecting to wireless speakers.

Being a small device, the ROKR E8 has a 2 inch QVGA screen and only weights 100 grams.

Probably the biggest drawbacks of the phone are that it only has a 2 megapixel camera with no flash and the phone lacks Wi-Fi and 3G, which is becoming more and more popular with other manufacturers.

The Motorola ROKR E8 is out now and contracts and prices vary.

The new Samsung Innov8 smartphone is one of the most advanced phones that Samsung has ever made and sports a huge 8 megapixel camera. This Symbian based smartphone also features Wi-Fi and GPS, as well as an advanced media player, with a host of other features designed to rival the Nokia N96 and N95.

The Innov8 phone has an 8 megapixel camera with a host of features lifted straight out of Samsung’s digital camera range like, autofocus and dual LED flash, face recognition and image stabiliser with built in image editing software.

The screen is a 2.8 inch QVGA display capable of displaying up to 16 million colours and supports Divx, WMV, H.263 and H.264 video files and MP3, ACC and WMA audio playback. Internal memory is rumoured to be either 8GB or 16GB depending on the version and can be upgraded with the microSD card slot by another 16GB.

Controlling the Innov8 is the Symbian S60 operating system, offering lots of applications and customisation and the phone also has Bluetooth and USB 2.0 connectivity.

The Samsung Innov8 is due for release in August; no price or network information yet, but expect it to have a similar price and contract as the Nokia N96.

Sony Ericsson is set to release their first Cyber-shot slider and the most advanced mobile phone camera to date. The C905 has an 8.1 megapixel camera and Xenon flash and delivers the picture quality that rivals a standalone digital camera. The C905’ camera also features face detection, auto-focus and a contrast and image stabilizer.

This is a powerhouse of a phone featuring HSDPA and Wi-Fi for broadband-like internet speed, built in A-GPS for finding your way around and has DLNA support, allowing the phone to be connected wirelessly to other devices.

The Sony Ericsson C905 has 160MB of internal memory and a Memory Stick Micro card slot which can take up to 8GB. The Sony Ericsson website states that a 2GB memory card will come as standard with the headset.

The C905 also has all the features you would expect from a new mobile phone like an audio and video player supporting a range of different formats, USB lead for fast transfer of files and various quick keys for switching to camera mode and for playing audio and video files.

No word on release date or price yet, but expect the C905 to hit the shops sometime in Q4 of this year.