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Samsung Announces 12 Megapixel Phone

Jun 1, 2009, 7:24 AM by Eric M. Zeman

Today Samsung announced a new phone touting a 12 megapixel camera. The Pixon12 features a full 3.1-inch AMOLED touch display and advanced camera features such as a dedicated camera power button, touch-based autofocus, fast shutter speeds, instant scene-changing modes, Xenon flash and 28mm wide angle lens. Photos can be sorted by by tags, file names, ratings, and time, and it features tools for uploading to social networking sites. The Pixon12 captures video at 30 frames per second at 720 x 480 pixels. The Pixon12 has quad-band GSM/EDGE, 900/2100 dual-band HSDPA/HSUPA, Wi-Fi, GPS and FM radios on board. It goes on sale in Europe later in June.

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lafountain

Jun 2, 2009, 5:51 AM

It will probably take nice pictures?

If i put a V8 in a Yugo will it drive fast? Maybe the camera in this phone will make it look that way? 😉

smittythepig

Jun 1, 2009, 9:28 AM

and shots still probably won't look as a decent as a good point and shoot

is it just me, or does increasing the pixel count on cellphone cameras only result in larger not-so-great pictures? i mean, some of them do take decent shots. but it seems like even the ultra large megapixel cellphone cameras still don't compare to a real point and shoot camera that's only say 4 or 5 megapixels.

HawkeyeOC

smittythepig said:
is it just me, or does increasing the pixel count on cellphone cameras only result in larger not-so-great pictures? i mean, some of them do take decent shots. but it seems like even the ultra large megapixel cell

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BLubak1

OMG, I'm so glad that someone else feels this way! They keep increasing the raw number of megapixels that these phone cameras take in, yet it seems like they use the same crappy sensors and the pictures are still just as crappy as the older, lower-meg...
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PhoneCrusher

Jun 1, 2009, 8:03 PM

Deja Vu

Is it me or is samsung rolling out a lot of phones that look alike 😲 😲

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