Samsung announces the Pixon12, its contender for the 2009 Cameraphone Heavyweight Title

By on Jun 1, 2009 at 9:34 AM
News June 1, 2009

We’ve been hearing about Samsung introducing a 12 megapixel camera phone since the beginning of this year and this morning the device that many of you have been praying for has been announced in the M8910 Pixon12. With specs that include a 3.1-inch AMOLED touchscreen display (Samsung claims it has a contrast ratio of 10,000:1), quad-band GSM/EDGE / dual-band HSPA (900/2100MHz), Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth 2.1, FM tuner with RDS and 150MB of internal memory that’s expandable to 16GB via microSD, it appears that the Pixon12 is by no means a one trick pony. It has pretty much all of the features that are expected from a high-end phone these days. Back to that 12 megapixel shooter…

If Samsung’s claims are right, it’s able to take a new pic after a 2 second respite while it saves the large image file and can shoot 720 x 480 videos at up to 30 fps. Other than that, features like Smart Auto and Touch Auto-Focus as well as easy uploading to Facebook, Picasa, Flickr, MySpace, Photobucket and Friendster through Samsung’s Share Pix make up the big selling points for the device. Pricing for the Pixon12 has yet to be announced, but we do know that it will be available in Europe come the end of June before it begins to make its way to other markets in August. Say what, Satio? Yeah, that’s right.

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  • Blackberry bold

    Samsung can make 32 megapixel camera phone, but it will not impress me. Does it have Optical Zoom with good lens and good flash? Probably not.

  • GM

    Does your Bold have those features?

    I do agree with you, though. Samsung, your phones have pretty good features, but your UI and OS lacks! Just adopt Android already.

  • Gnome_Sayin

    I don’t understand the excitement over 12MP camera phones.. The sensor size is so tiny on these phones the quality of the images, especially in lower light, will suffer tremendously!

    I think 3-5MP is more than enough. I have yet to see a phone take good enough quality pics that I’m left wishing it was bigger (more MP).

    I sure hope it has autofocus and a flash!!

    Other than that.. looks like a great phone!

  • JoeTour

    And how much does that beast weigh?

  • andy

    Lose the touchscreen, lose the proprietary os, throw a quality lens on that, and ill consider it. Until then, its just a worthless phone with cheap optics.

  • Tyler

    Loose the touch Screen, NO. What it needs is a good OS. And the 3.1 in screen is not enough, should be 3.5 at least.

  • Paul

    No Not another proprietary os RUBBISH, this phone will cost over £400 for that you NEED smartphone OS, Symbian, Win Mobile or Android,

    WE want more touchscreen smartphones with Xenon Flash, at the moment the Sony Ericsson Satio is the only phone that will available.

  • motomann

    I bet the 5megapixel moto zn5 still takes better photos then this thing!!!!

  • ru_anderson

    hmm finally they are doing what they should have done all along
    putting a sim card in a decent portable camera.

    Panasonic luminix (and HTC) please take note

    http://gizmodo.com/5369970/samsung-amoled-12m-official-12+megapixel-camera-phone-has-3x-optical-zoom

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