Samsung Shows 10-Megapixel Camera Phone
Posted by Peggy Watt | Wednesday, October 11, 2006 6:51 AM PT
Samsung is releasing a 10-megapixel camera phone that includes a 3X optical zoom lens and other features usually found only in standalone digicams--but it's bound for the market only in Korea.
Like some of the company's previous phones, the SCH-B600 is styled to look like a conventional digital still camera from one side and a bar-type cell phone from the other side, says Martyn Williams, our colleague with the IDG News Service. The high-end camera phone
made its debut at the Cebit exhibition in Germany in March.
Its other features include a tuner for South Korea's TU Media satellite multimedia service, Bluetooth, MP3 player, business card reader, and TV-output--for a price tag of about $950.
The phone is the latest in a line of high megapixel camera phones from Samsung. The company launched a 5-megapixel camera phone in October 2004, a 7-megapixel phone in July 2005 and an 8-megapixel model in November last year.
Wow! This is cool. Understanding that the idea of having a camera phone is not just a toy, but a very practical tool, that could be made useful by having a camera that actually takes good pictures is a great leap forward in company consumer understanding. I hate that it is only being released in Korea, but oh well, I am sure this will be a standard thing in a few years.