Image: courtesy of Samsung
Not content with launching the UK’s first 8-megapixel cameraphone, with its i8510 smartphone, Samsung has added another 8 million pixel mobile to its line-up with a super slim touchscreen model, the Samsung Pixon M8800.
‘Intelligent’ settings
Imaging is central to the Samsung Pixon’s appeal. Besides the headline-grabbing pixel-count, Samsung has stacked up an impressive amount of camera features and shooting gadgetry.
To complement autofocus and macro shooting, there’s stuff like a ‘Smile Shot’ setting (where it will only snap if it detects a smile), ‘Blink detection’ (it won’t shoot if someone’s blinking), ‘Face detection’ (looking to identify faces from previously stored and tagged images), location geo-tagging (exact positioning info using GPS), plus an assortment of settings adjustment and editing options.
Minimalist styling
Samsung hasn’t strayed too far from the post-iPhone touchscreen phone norm with the Pixon’s design.
Its all-black exterior, with a plastic and metal casing, is minimalist, with just three small buttons on the bottom of the fascia beneath the display, and an inconspicuous low-res video call camera above the screen.
The large WQVGA (240×400 pixels) 262K-colour display provides a decent amount of space to view images, video and other content, plus there’s an accelerometer inside to auto rotate the screen between widescreen and portrait phone mode with certain functions.
Oh, and you can make phone calls with it too!
From TechRadar
