SEOUL, South Korea- Samsung has taken the mobile world by surprise by announcing the release of the world’s first 12 megapixel camera-phone, the Samsung M810 Pixon 12, for the latter half of June 09 (Europe) and early August (other regions). The Pixon 12 is an upgraded version of 8 megapixel camera-phone Pixon, released in September 2008.

Samsung is targeting the camera-phone market with its Pixon series, and this latest phone is a result of extensive customer research program, highlighting demand for a camera-phone capable of capturing high-quality photographs and sharing images on the move. In addition to these components, the M810 has certain value-added features, such as speedy access to camera mode, fast shutter speed and quick browsing, turning the capture of high-quality images on cellphones a child’s play.

In addition to having a 12 megapixel sensor, M810 is equipped with a 28 mm wide angle lens, Xenon flash, power LED flash, and autofocus. There is a dedicated camera-power key, giving users fast one-touch access to camera. M810 sports a number of innovative camera features, such as touch autofocus tracking, allowing users to select an object to focus which will be subsequently tracked automatically; and smart auto feature, which automates the scene and mode selection, depending on the scene, object, background, and lighting. The camera also enables geotagging, and video recording with a resolution of 720x480 pixels at 30fps, which makes it a complete camera phone.

With M810, Samsung has decided to turn to AMOLED displays, this one is a 3.1” touchscreen with 720x480 pixels of resolution. It should be noted that AMOLED is lighter on battery consumption and trumps LED by offering better visibility in sunlight. The other specifications include 150 MB internal memory, a microSD memory card slot (expandable to 16GB), GPRS and EDGE, HSPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and USB connectivity. At 108x53x13.8mm, it’s a tad narrower than the original Pixon, which sported a 3.2” TFT screen.
With Samsung Share Pix, M810 users can instantaneously share their images and videos through popular networking sites such as Facebook, Picasa Flickr, MySpace, Photobucket, and Friendster, over Wi-Fi or HSUPA.










Spec of Pixon 12

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Added on July 1, 2009, 4:57 pmComparison made by gsmarena.











Photo taken with Pixon 12.
from gsmarena too


This post has been edited by theWeird_Weird: Jul 2 2009, 02:13 PM

This phone is very very EXPANSIVE 639 EURO according to gsmarena... Better go buy SE IDOU/SATIO

base on gsmarena, this pixon12 actually using 30mm lens instead of 28mm. n one more things, pixon12 do have variable aperture like n86 but only 2 level

full fledge review by GSMArena
Pixon12's Review

This post has been edited by squall_kay: Jul 4 2009, 01:47 PM

accelerometer? does it have it?

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Added on July 13, 2009, 10:42 ambut compare to satio, pixon12 just use normal samsung os compare to satio that using symbian..huhu, which one is better my dearest fren?

This post has been edited by sahar: Jul 13 2009, 10:42 AM

looks really like the 8mp pixon

when is this phone out... cant wait.... but still waiting...

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Added on July 23, 2009, 1:11 amoh my... released in aug 09 in spain / uk ... when in malaysia?

This post has been edited by littlediana: Jul 23 2009, 01:11 AM

already available in uk ... wonder when in malaysia..

WOW! that's a lot of money..we're talking 639.00 EUR=3,229.88 MYR

no news when it will reach our shores?

yup .. me too waiting but pixon12 is in the samsung website stating coming soon i think it wont be long ....

i like the specs, but too bad is using samsung OS

why no good???

Samsung are not good in OS I guess.... They should put Symbian or WM

They just have a weak proprietary OS. Well they're trying hard to improve the dodgy touch UI. It's not to say they're not improving.

Well if you think pixon is great, they'll be rolling out another great camera phone W880. sadly it's mainly under CDMA despite it can accept GSM.

^ by judging the second photo without reading the spec, i'd mistakenly think that it is a DC

even the first photo looks like a camera

i like the view from on top the phone. looks really like a camera O_O

Well most of Samsung phones which comes with a high MP camera indeed do look like a camera

when is this phone out???

would like to hands on and feel this phone... hmmm

my friend said release soon with price RM2699 ~ SO EXPENSIVE !!!!