For the last few months I’ve been waiting for someone to come up with a statistic saying how many new mobile phones are being announced each day, each our, each minute or second. It would be fun seeing all these phone giants battling for market share, wouldn’t it?
The latest groundbreaking release this fall is Samsung Pixon M8800, a 15.5mm thick 8 megapixel camera phone that packs some incredible photography skills. Autofocus, built-in double flash with LED, image stabilization and anti-shaking software, panoramic shooting, face/smile/blink detection are just a few of the features that can turn the new Pixon into a pretty good point-and-shoot camera. It also records videos at a resolution of 720 x 480 @ 30 fps, or 320 x 240 pixels @ 120 fps.
Other than a perfect camera phone, it packs a 3.2-inch display (400 x 240) with 256k colors, a TouchWiz interface from the i900 Omnia, 2100 MHz HSDPA, Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, built-in GPS, a built-in memory of 200MB, Micro SD slot (up to 8GB), 1000 mAh Li-ion battery and unexplainable … it misses WiFi. It does, however, play divx, xvid, h.263, h.264, wmv, mp4, mp3, aac, wma si amr files. Talking about audio and video playback, it has a stunning feature. It tries to mimic a 5.1 surround device.
Samsung Pixon M8800 is expected in stores at the end of October, start of November, and the price should be somewhere near $800. I think it’s going to be a top seller, right from the begining.
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