Samsung SCH-B600 Has a 10-Megapixel Camera Inside October 10, 2006
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Here's what Samsung is calling "the world's first super camera phone," the Samsung SCH-B600. That's a 10-megapixel digital camera in there, and the lens is long enough to let it zoom 3x optically. A neat trick: the phone is 6mm thinner and 10g lighter than Samsung's 7-megapixel V770 camera phone it introduced last year. It works just like a regular digital camera, too, with autofocus, a 2.2-inch 240x320 LCD display and video at 320x240 and 30fps. The bad news is that it will initially only be available in Korea for $900.
Well, it's about time somebody rolled out a decent digital camera inside a cell phone, and even though this one will only be only available in Korea for an exorbitant price, it's just the next shot in the ongoing war to place real cameras inside cellphones, and not just a bunch of unusable blurry bullshit. But that megapixel number doesn't tell the whole story. Wonder if the lens is any good, or those sensors gathering the light...?
Editor and Contributor | Martin Lynch
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Forget megapixels, I found what separated the Sony Ericsson K800i from the competition was including a decent flash - most others I've used are basically unusable (often illuminating the smokey air in clubs and bars, which is home turf for trendy cameras).
Got to see this in the flesh in June and it takes an amazing picture. Colours were very crisp, as good as any compact digital camera I've seen.
A friend also has the Sony Ericsson K800i and I find that the flash on that is too bright and illuminates the face too much.
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