nickrich
03-16-2005, 11:14 AM
Samsung today announced what it claims is the world's first phone with a seven megapixel digital camera built in.
And it's not your average phone camera at that. The SCH-V770 provides a 3x optical zoom - and a 5x digital zoom - autofocus facility, flash, full manual mode, 1/2000th of a second shutter speed, and scope to add additional lenses. It can capture 320 x 240 ***** at 15-30fps.
This "high quality digital camera" will appeal as much to professionals as more casual *****graphers, said Samsung's telecommunications division president Ki-Tae Lee. The company hopes the V770 will particularly appeal to *****-journalists, he added.
Flip the 12.7 x 5.2 x 2.7cm handset over and it looks like a traditional phone, though its 2in, 240 x 320 display is capable of showing more than 16m colours. It has integrated TV-out, too. There's an MMC Micro slot on board to complement the built-in 32MB of RAM - a little small, perhaps, for a 7mp camera.
The 180g handset doubles up as an MP3 player, and sports a digital audio amplifier. It support 64-voice polyphonic ringtones.
For now at least, the V770 will remain a CDMA handset aimed at the Far East market.
Not so the SGH-i300 hard disk-equipped smart phone, which Samsung also demo'd at CeBIT 2005 this week. It's a tri-band (900/1800/1900MHz) GSM/GPRS phone that manages to fit a 3GB hard drive into its 11.3 x 4.8 x 2cm casing. Samsung wasn't saying who makes the compact HDD - it could be Samsung itself, it could be Toshiba, though it's working on a 2GB model, with a 4GB unit to follow, not 3GB.
And it's not your average phone camera at that. The SCH-V770 provides a 3x optical zoom - and a 5x digital zoom - autofocus facility, flash, full manual mode, 1/2000th of a second shutter speed, and scope to add additional lenses. It can capture 320 x 240 ***** at 15-30fps.
This "high quality digital camera" will appeal as much to professionals as more casual *****graphers, said Samsung's telecommunications division president Ki-Tae Lee. The company hopes the V770 will particularly appeal to *****-journalists, he added.
Flip the 12.7 x 5.2 x 2.7cm handset over and it looks like a traditional phone, though its 2in, 240 x 320 display is capable of showing more than 16m colours. It has integrated TV-out, too. There's an MMC Micro slot on board to complement the built-in 32MB of RAM - a little small, perhaps, for a 7mp camera.
The 180g handset doubles up as an MP3 player, and sports a digital audio amplifier. It support 64-voice polyphonic ringtones.
For now at least, the V770 will remain a CDMA handset aimed at the Far East market.
Not so the SGH-i300 hard disk-equipped smart phone, which Samsung also demo'd at CeBIT 2005 this week. It's a tri-band (900/1800/1900MHz) GSM/GPRS phone that manages to fit a 3GB hard drive into its 11.3 x 4.8 x 2cm casing. Samsung wasn't saying who makes the compact HDD - it could be Samsung itself, it could be Toshiba, though it's working on a 2GB model, with a 4GB unit to follow, not 3GB.