Samsung Pixon 12 – World’s first 12 megapixel phone
1 Jun2009
Samsung has announced that they are the first company to reach the 12 megapixel threshold for a camera phone. Samsung’s rumored 12 megapixel cameraphone has finally arrived. The Pixon 12 and its 3.1-inch AMOLED touchscreen with a Samsung promise of fast shutter speeds and quick browsing.
The Pixon 12 (M8910) has a dedicated shutter button, touch auto-focus (wherever you touch becomes the focal point) that locks in to track moving subjects, Smart Auto mode that adjusts to conditions, and a 28-mm wide angle lens.
More megapixels do not make for better photos especially when jammed tightly into a sensor small enough for a cellphone. And 12 megapixels translates to files ranging from 2MB to 18MB and beyond depending on the compression used (Samsung doesn’t say).
Is it really worth the storage space and the associated delays when uploading images to Samsung’s Share Pix service (with Facebook, Picasa, Flickr integration) over the Pixon 12′s built-in WiFi and HSUPA data? No rush, you’ve got time to decide — Pixon 12 will be hitting Europe in late June, other regions sometime in August. One more pic after the break.
An update says that full specs just arrived which is: 150MB of on-board storage (up to 16GB MicroSD expansion); quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, HSPA 900/2100MHz; Xenon + Power LED flash; 720 x 480 pixel videos at 30fps; internal GPS, and FM radio with RDS.
