Shootout at the three-megapixel corral

Phone-makers have slowly been upping the ante with the quality of the cameras in their handsets. Today in the paper we take a look at the first three-megapixel cameraphones to hit the Irish market: the Sony Ericsson K800i and Nokia's N80.

Neither is a real substitute for a proper digicam and both are on the fat/heavy side but they're the closest any phone has come to decent picture quality. Read the full review of the K800i and N80 in today's paper.

In games, Microsoft's annual Xbox showcase previewed some of the hot titles headed for the 360 in the next 12 months. X06, held in Barcelona, was Microsoft's attempt to increase its headstart on Sony's beleaguered PS3. The line-up was mighty impressive (Alone in the Dark, Bioshock and Assassin's Creed among them) but most won't land until 2007.