Camera Phones Plaza

Samsung has a new slim phone in the offing. The Samsung SPH-V9900 is all of 6.9mm thin, and it was recently showcased at the KES 2006. This CDMA 2000 cell phone is compatible with 1x EV-DO (1900MHz) for high speed internet access.

The Samsung SPH-V9900 also includes a neat 2 megapixel camera and 1.9" QVGA resolution display. Other goodies on the phone include an MP3 player, video-on-demand and music-on-demand capability and a dictionary.

There's also a file viewer, although it's not clear what formats are supported. No word on pricing or availability yet.

Via aving.net.

Samsung Korea today announced that Cingular will launch a new HSDPA clamshell. The Samsung A707 appears to be based on the Z560 - a thin, light folder launched in Europe earlier this year. In addition to HSDPA high speed data, the A707 has a 2 megapixel camera and stereo Bluetooth. The Z560 featured a QVGA and MicroSD slot, it is likely these features will also carry over to the A707 but they have not been confirmed.

The Samsung A707 features Windows Media DRM and is compatible with Plays For Sure music services such as Napster and Rhapsody. It is possible Cingular will also launch a music download service with this phone as well. It also has music identification software that will find the name and artist of a song when played into the phone.

Via techticker.

We have all seen mobile phones with digital cameras, some of us have even had one or still do, but I'm sure you haven't seen or had one that has a real built-in digital camera. This is the case when we're talking about the freshly launched Samsung SCH-V770, a mobile device that sports an impressive 7 megapixel camera
(not very outstanding compared to the 10 megapixel one that rests under the case of the SCH-B600, but pretty mind blowing anyway).

The Samsung V770's digital camera is the first one on the mobile market that does lots of things for the first time. It offers its users manual functions only featured until now on stand-alone cameras (you can manually adjust the focus, the focal length tweakable from 7.8 to 23.4 mm, the shutter speed from 15 seconds to a as little as 1/2000th of a second, the auto exposure lock and you can also mess around with the exposure, of course if you know what you are doing, by tweaking the aperture priority, the shutter priority, all of these by fully manual options).

It also comes with tele-conversion and wide-angle lenses, auto-focus and flash, 3x optical zoom and 5x digital, and it works with the help of a 1/1.8 inch CCD sensor.

Via techfresh.

Samsung made a press release today in which announced the world's first super camera phone, the Samsung SCH-B600. The handset features an amazing 10 megapixel camera with 3x optical zoom, 5x digital zoom and a flash unit. The SCH-B600 also has a LED autofocus that automatically determines the distance and utilizes the appropriate focus setting.

The B600 also supports white balance, manual focus, continuous picture-taking, and interval picture-taking functions. Moving pictures can be recorded in QVGA resolution at 15-30 frames per second. It also supports Satellite DMB function which enables TV watching.

Photos taken with the SCH-B600 can be seen on a 2.2" 240x320 16M Color TFT display and can be stored in the internal memory or on the MMCmicro card.

The price of B600 is around $900 in Korea. Unfortunately no news about the chance of a world-wide release, however we don't expect this phone to be available to us any time soon.

The official Samsung press release:
"SEOUL, KOREA, Oct 10th, 2006: Samsung reinforces its technology leadership by launching the world's first 10 megapixel mobile phone (model: SCH-B600) in 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 Samsung B600 is around 900,000 won (about $ 900) in Korea."

Samsung prepares a new 3G slider, the Samsung Z360. The handset appeared on the FCC website and on some European websites and supports EDGE and Bluetooth. The phone will also feature a 176x220 pixels, 262K colors TFT display, a 1.3 megapixel camera with video capture and MP3 player. Images and songs can be stored on it's 30 MB of internal memory extandable with microSD memory cards.

It seems like the Samsung Z360 will be available this fall, but no word yet on pricing.

Via mobile-review.