The world is going to see a surge in the availability of 8-megapixel phones soon. Samsung without any hoopla launched M880 Pixon, their second 8-megapixel phone. This time Samsung decided to ride the phone on its native TouchWiz UI with lots of features to please the photography enthusiasts. The Pixon has a 3.2-inch touch screen with handwriting recognition, GPS, Accelerometer and even DivX playback but no Wi-Fi. The phone will start retailing from November 10 at price of 550 Euros ($880).
Full specifications:
Quad-band GSM, tri-band HSDPA
107.9×54.6×14.9mm, 110 g
3.2-inch touch screen display (240 x 400 pixels)
8 megapixel camera, auto focus, face recognition with smile detection and blink detection, WDR (wide dynamic range), ASR (advanced shake reduction), GPS geotagging, ISO 1600, WVGA (720×480 pixels) and VGA (640 x 480 pixels) @30fps video recording
Built-in GPS receiver
Accelerometer
DivX playback
FM radio with RDS
microSD card slot
Bluetooth
Landscape virtual QWERTY keyboard
Handwriting recognition
ShoZu integration – direct image and video upload
Office document viewer
There’s also a video showcasing the camera capabilities of the phone.
To see the phone from every angle, click here.
[Via GSMArena]
The Samsung M8800 Pixon is all about multimedia – a superb camera, and a superb music player. 8 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash and lens protectionis the headline feature of this phone, though, these days 8mp cameraphones are still rather exotic. As for looks the Pixon has plastic casing and it is akin to a number of similar Samsung devices, TOCCO F480, S5230 Star…