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Samsung Launches the World’s First 10 megapixel Camera phone

10 October 2006 by axxxr
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Samsung launches the world’s first 10 megapixel mobile phone (model: SCH-B600) for the Korean market.

Samsung reached another milestone in camera phones by launching 10 megapixel camera phone, which was unveiled at CeBIT in March this year. Samsung has been the first to introduce mobile phone with embedded camera in 2000. Samsung has also launched the world’s first 5 megapixel camera phone in October 2004 ;the world’s first 7 megapixel camera phone in July 2005.

Samsung’s 10 megapixel camera phone (SCH-B600) is 6mm thinner and 10g lighter than the 7 megapixel camera phone (SCH-V770) and sets itself apart from its previous megapixel camera phones by combining mobile TV capability in Satellite standard.

The B600 offers the same level of picture-taking sophistication that a 10 megapixel digital camera offers. The camera function includes 3x optical zoom and 5x digital zoom.It also has auto focus and a flash unit that performs optimally for 10 megapixel photographs.

Also, the B600 comes fitted with a LED autofocus feature which assists users to capture clear, crisp photos even in dark settings. Located next to the lens, the LED autofocus automatically determines the distance and utilizes the appropriate focus setting for optimal photo shooting.

The B600 also supports white balance, manual focus, continuous picture-taking, and interval picture-taking functions.It also supports Bluetooth which enables users to send pictures wirelessly to other mobile phones, printers or to Bluetooth headsets.

The high color Reproduction TFT-LCD produces the highest possible display for its size. The photo-fine chromic LCD can reproduce 16 million colors, virtually any color found in nature, earning it the “True Color" appellation. Moving pictures can be recorded in QVGA resolution at 15-30 frames per second.Users can watch live TV in crisp picture through Satellite DMB function.

It also supports external memory (MMCmicro) in addition to its internal memory. The mobile phone supports a TV-out function where users can connect their phones to view still or motion pictures.The B600 comes with a design reminiscent of a real digital camera. The front is designed as a bar-type mobile phone, while the back side is used as the digital camera.

Other advanced functions in the B600 include an MP3 player, business card reader, and 128 polyphonic sounds.The price of B600 is around 900,000 won (about $ 900) in Korea. www.samsung.com






Comments
On 6 Nov 09:36 nok wrote
samsung s 4 korean people only.
On 31 Oct 06:46 ramya wrote
how about the camera is it good for a student
On 28 Oct 08:52 tunde wrote
well am yet to see the fone but i still give it to my SE k800i
On 23 Oct 12:43 lun wrote
its like my penise with great tetease
On 19 Oct 05:31 BobTluanga wrote
Excellence

what's the price in Indian Currency ?
On 16 Oct 22:20 MikeL wrote
GUYS, this Samsung is complete JUNK! There is no better phone out there than SONY ERICSSON. I got 4 different models, love every single one of them. My missus has Nokia 6280, is a bloody piece of SHEIT! hard to use, waste of space, and money!

STICK TO SONY ERICSSON, at least the picture quality WONT let you DOWN.

I bet u that my latest SE K800i 3.2 mp camera would be much better than this new shitty SAMSUNG!
On 14 Oct 13:46 WIFIGUY wrote
Absolutely ridiculous
On 13 Oct 16:51 mrboboi wrote
scarry phone with poking optic.. i will think more than twice just to hold it.. afraid of the brain cancer if it touches my head.
On 12 Oct 23:24 immy wrote
this fone is just a digitalcamra with glued on mini fone...it just looks like brick that is from a kitchen wall or sumfing.
iwont buy this fone ever!!!
On 11 Oct 20:04 Jayachandran wrote
The Phone lookks.., But the Proformance ...
no can predictt.. for SE looks viable..
On 11 Oct 18:05 jack77777 wrote
i can say one thing: i wouldnt buy it , never !
On 11 Oct 16:21 etaab wrote
I cant remember the last time i saw so many stupid comments in one section of the news thread.

"10 mega pixel camera is best" - according to who ? it might have a higher megapixel value, but the resulting images could (or probably) be p!ss poor !

"It's far better to buy this one than N95" - how so ? the N95 has so much more, but yet is poorer because it only has a smaller megapixel value camera ?

Some people are so obsessed with bigger is better !

@ everyone - where is SE's answer ? does it need to give one ? this phone is a concept design that will be released in only small numbers in even smaller available territories. This isnt a cameraphone, its a test unit to see how well such technology will sell. SE and other companies who produce cameraphones in mass quantities will fully milk the market with 2mp, 3mp, 4mp, 5mp all the way up to 10mp before they'll release anything as high specification. Thats how technology works, you have to earn so much from each generation before moving onto the next otherwise there was no point in developing it in the first place. Im sure SE could quite easily announce a 10mp cameraphone, but they'd be stupid to do so.

Bigger isnt always better, it might have a 10mp camera, but i'd bet money everything else about this phone - the GUI, size, battery life, sound quality, features etc.. would SUCK !

end of rant.
On 11 Oct 13:04 antichrist wrote
i don't belive this joke. first of all, why it is launched only in korea? a friend of mine has a 8mp digi cam and it's twice the size of this phone this means that this phone has super-mega-ultra-clever chip. but i don't think so....
On 11 Oct 11:56 YogeshKnowsbetter wrote
nice to see samsung launches the 10 mp cam phone........ if cam phone is taking over the digi-cam.. then no need to buy digi's....
i think sony developes the 10 mp phone internally and just waiting for the fooled samsung & nokia user's to buy his phone's ..
everybody's knows.... se rock's....................
On 11 Oct 11:31 chunkybeats wrote
nice to see the barrier being broken, but its for the asian market and we are behind them at the moment (uk), but when se expands the cybershot brand to its phones it will blow all the competitors out of the water, because they are excellant digital cameras. As for this, i can only imagine it will weigh an absolute ton!!! looks bulky like n93!! SE rules!
On 11 Oct 10:52 Usman wrote
what a mobile phone.i really like this cell phone.10.0 mega pixel chamera.i want to buy this cell phone.i love samsung.
On 11 Oct 09:54 Rach wrote
Who actually need 10mp images though? and if Samsung is anything to go by it will be nothing close to the quality of SE
On 11 Oct 09:47 mayur32 wrote
10 mega pixel camera is best
but
its screen is to small for that camera
On 11 Oct 09:36 WhiteEye wrote
It's far better to buy this one than N95.

Hopefully SE will make the successor of Wilma
On 11 Oct 09:26 hafsaviquar wrote
cool phone!!
On 11 Oct 03:53 jasond wrote
Primarily available on the Asian market, I presume.

It's times like this when I really question if Sony Ericsson are just 'comfortable' with where they are in the market, and not really charging ahead. Yes, they had auto-focus before Samsung, but the features of this handset are unheard of.

Come on SE, just because your Western compeditors don't do it doesn't mean you need to hang back as well. Stop milking the market and deliver some high end.
On 11 Oct 01:28 QuickShare wrote
10Megapixel... but just 3x Optical zoom.. now this is a real joke :P hopefully the Megapixel served well to owner of this phone
On 11 Oct 00:46 AmitPandeyINDIA wrote
WHAT A JOKE..!! I think so, its just an imaginative design. It is not manufactured yet, as samsung`s 5 & 7 megapixel camera.
On 11 Oct 00:04 AFSHIN wrote
THE SAMSUNG IS YERY LOW CLASS SONY ERICSSON IS VERY BEST AND MOST BETER DAN SAMSUNG AFSHIN_APACHII@YAHOO.COM
On 10 Oct 23:51 Residentevil wrote
I am speechless.
On 10 Oct 22:15 Ranjith wrote
this is jst a joke!!!!....where are their 5 and 7mp phones?????never saw it with any1!!!
On 10 Oct 21:31 SloopJohnB wrote
K800 looks like a toy close to this...
On 10 Oct 21:23 AamirandAfzal wrote
simply great.Any possibility of competetion with N-Series?Wats SE doing?Simply watching the competetion?
On 10 Oct 20:28 DonJuan wrote
Where can you get these phones? anybody know
On 10 Oct 19:15 Xugaa wrote
O_O
On 10 Oct 19:08 OWAISABDULAZIZ wrote
BEST BUT WHAT I S RATES
On 10 Oct 18:22 awave wrote
any possibility of getting this outside korea??? - i want one....but probably can't afford it!!!

-|- awave
On 10 Oct 18:17 royalty wrote
WOW that impressive, a phone inside a digital cam

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