Camera Phones Plaza

Those of you that have a Samsung BlackJack from AT&T and live in the US can now upgrade to Windows Mobile 6 via the online downloading service from Samsung.

Advancing from Windows Mobile 5 to the 6th version of the popular operating system will bring more powerful applications for a powerful handset like BlackJack including keeping records of your contacts in Outlook Mobile, browse the Internet and writing documents in Word and Excel in order to view and analyze them with PowerPoint.

With this upgrade BlackJack's user will get support for HTML e-mail formats to be able to send messages with links, images and symbols, while having access to entertainment features and powerful business applications boosted up by the 3G BroadbandConnect network.
Other features include an MP3 player, a built-in 1,3MP camera with video recording capability and the stereo Bluetooth support for headsets.

"AT&T customers continue to love the BlackJack and the availability of Windows Mobile 6 capabilities presents them with a winning combination that brings the BlackJack to new heights in terms of functionality," declared Michael Woodward, AT&T vice president, Business Voice/Data and Mobility Products. "It's a great enhancement to AT&T's industry leading Windows Mobile device portfolio."

The North American version of Samsung F490 is released by Sprint under the name SPH-M800.
It is considered one of the iPhone killers because of its full touch sensitive technology adopted for the user interface showing a 16:9 display of 3.2 inches.

Unlike the F490 with a 5MP camera sensor, M800 integrates a 2MP camera and EV-DO Rev. A support for high speeds during Internet browsing, as well as access to Sprint T, Music Store, Navigator GPS and other Sprint exclusive services.
The Bluetooth wireless connectivity features A2DP for stereo headsets.



There wasn’t made public any information regarding the price or availability yet.

This is the latest cell phone released by Softbank with two built-in cameras, the 5MP one with CMOS sensor for capturing photos and a 3MP one for video conference.
The slider camera phone is named 920SC and features Xenon flash, 3x optical zoom, red eye correction, face recognition and auto focus.
Bluetooth and infrared are the technologies used in connectivity, while it comes also with GPS capability.

920SC is a powerful phone showing a 2.4-inch self-luminous organic EL display with 240 x 320 pixels resolution and capable of 26 million colors.
It has support for WCDMA and GSM 900/1800/1900 MHz bands while providing a 3G speed of 3.5Mbps for transfers.
With a microSD card type you can add up to 2 GB of extra memory to store all your high resolution pictures taken with the camera phone.

Other cool features include the music player, QR Code Reader, PC Site Browser, S! Quick News, Yahoo! Mocoa, and S! Circle Talk.
The camera phone measures 52×101.5×18.9mm, weights 129g and you can work on it for up to 3h30min until the next recharge.



It will be available in the following 2-color combinations: black-red, white-white, white-turquoise, and black-black.
We will have the pleasure to meet this model on January 12 when it will be released on the market.

Not many phones have a sophisticated design and so many technologies integrated as Samsung models, especially those exposed at CES 2008.
The expert in mobile phones presented the most revolutionary models at the show in Las Vegas, as a demo of cutting-edge technology and design innovation, and we are talking about SGH-i450, SGH-G800, SGH-i620, and the SGH-i780.



If we take a closer look to each of them we can observe a stylish music phone with dual slider design, touch wheel music navigation and Symbian S60 OS features, all in one phone, the Samsung SGH-i450.
The Smartphone brings advanced download application and multitasking features with fast speeds provided by the HSDPA connectivity support.
When you slide it down it becomes a music player with touch wheel navigation for controlling the multimedia menus the easiest way, while the metallic speakers with ICEpower amplifier support created by Bang & Olufsen provide a clear sound.



Samsung SGH-G800 is the world’s first 5MP phone with 3x optical zoom combining the features of a digital camera with a multimedia mobile device, and coming in a sleek form factor.
Its camera has special features such as face detection, Wide Dynamic Range and photo and video sharing.



Coming in a vertical slide design with a full QWERTY keyboard, Windows Mobile 6 and podcasting, is the Samsung SGH-i620, a handset with support for RSS feeds, built-in music player and a 2MP camera.



Another smart phone from Samsung is the SGH-i780 sleek mobile device with full QWERTY keyboard and full touch-sensitive screen. The operating system installed is again Windows Mobile 6.0, while the phone also has push e-mail capabilities, GPS tracking, a 2MP camera, HSDPA connectivity and an optical mouse.

Samsung FlipShot released by the company recently and offered through Verizon Wireless is also known as Samsung U900 and uses a cool twisting design to snap photos, with a screen capable to rotate at 180 degrees.



When rotated at 180 degrees, the screen becomes a high-resolution 3MP camera with flash, autofocus, zoom and photo editing software.



In its normal shape, the CDMA phone measures 96 x 46 x 19 mm and it’s QVGA TFT display is of 240 x 320 mm.
It uses microSD slot type for extra memory, Bluetooth connectivity, business card reader, music player, IM, E-mail, TV out function, EV-DO, and the special services from Verizon Wireless.



The clamshell uses a Li-Ion battery that works for up to 4 hours until the next recharge.