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[creative]

Samsung are soon to be releasing a phone that has a camera which can zoom in and out - so it has optical zoom.
It's reasonably big but it also has a 3 megapixel camera - the first 3 megapixel camera in the world.
Siraj

[kz]

Thanks creative for this share. Any idea though what model it is? would love to see it, am a tech freak

[*Fatema*]

sa ppl
siraj the mobile ur takin about sounds cool do u think u can get pics of it???
*Fatema*

[Yas]

Hmmm... doesnt seem to ring a bell. Just something to note though, Samsung a few months back released a 5 thats right FIVE megapixel cameraphone - again, Korea exclusive. So yes, this is the first 3 MP cameraphone for the *world*, technically lol. Ill have a look into it..

[kz]

wow....5 Mega pixels? by any chance would you be able to post pics of tht plz?

[Yas]

Right... this is the press release for the 5MP one (October 20th, 2004):

Samsung introduced the 5 megapixel camera phone SCH-S250. Maybe the most important thing about this phone except all the megapixels is that it will be available in Korea only. We can only hope that there will be a version for the worldwide market. We don't expect this to happen very soon, because the Samsung SPH-2300, announced in July, still has no European version.



The new high resolution model SCH-S250 is expected to hit the market (Korea only) next week and the expected price is around $875 (USD). The phone will be equipped with the world's highest class LCD, featuring True Color (16.7 million colors) and QVGA(320x240 pixels) resolution. The new camera will require a lot of storage for these big 5 megapixel images - there will be 92 MB of internal memory and RS-MMC memory card slot. Other advanced functions of the device include MP3 player, QVGA video recording and TV out.

"With this phone, we finally outpaced our rivals in Japan over vigorous competition in pixel counts", said Samsung executive vice president Cho Byung-duck, who is in charge of the firm's cell phone research. Samsung introduced its first mega-pixel phone in October last year, about five months later than its Japanese competitors, Sharp and Mitsubishi Electric. Samsung started to develop the high-resolution phone early last year by forging a partnership with Pentax, which helped produce 5 megapixel camera modules.

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And 3MP (July 13th, 2004):

Samsung introduced the three megapixels, three times optical zoom camera phone SPH-2300 to the Korean market. The new device looks like a traditional compact digital camera at the front side and like a phone at the back side.



This might be the first camera in a phone to get close to the quality of the consumer digital cameras. It uses the same lens with sliding design found on all Pentax cameras from the Optio S series.

The Samsung SPH-2300 dimensions are 113 x 51 x 26 mm and it weights 132 g. The expected price of the device is about $700. We can only hope that Samsung will release a version of SPH-2300 for the GSM networks.

Source Credits: GSMArena.

[kz]

wat can I say...WOW
too bad it aint available for the global market, this'd make a hell off a phone, no sorry a camera, well something in between anyway