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Samsung M8800 Pixon

Posted on 14. Feb, 2009 by IBM in Reviews. 

Tags: Samsung, Shootout, Touch UI

Samsung M8800 Pixon gets its kick from touchscreen and imaging and hopes to be the definitive cameraphone. The inspired TouchWiz interface and massive screen are the right gateway to getting the 8 megapixel camera and real high-end video unleashed. The Pixon obviously plays second fiddle to the INNOV8 in the Samsung portfolio but dares to challenge it in the imaging department. Picture this.

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Key features:

• 3.2″ 256K-color TFT LCD touchscreen display of WQVGA resolution
• 8 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash and lens protection
• Camera geo-tagging, auto-panorama shot, face, smile and blink detection, digital image stabilization
• WVGA video recording at 30fps
• Slimmest 8MP phone
• 3G with HSDPA support
• Quad-band GSM support
• GPS receiver
• microSD card slot
• DivX, XviD and MP4 video player
• SRS (Surround Sound System) Virtual 5.1CH
• TV out functionality
• FM radio with RDS
• Bluetooth and USB v2.0
• 200 MB internal memory
• Landscape on-screen virtual QWERTY keyboard
• Accelerometer sensor
• Multitasking
• Office document viewer
• ShoZu integration (direct image and video uploads)

Main disadvantages:

• No Wi-Fi connectivity
• No voice-guided GPS navigation
• Stylus as dongle only, no stylus compartment
• No smart dialing

Final words

We really loved the Samsung F480 and we were more than happy to welcome its successor. Now, if you look at it that way, upgrading the Tocco is a serious task but the Pixon seems well up to it. It’s true though that quad-band GSM support and accelerometer are the only non-imaging related upgrades. The rest – 8MP camera, high-res video recording, DivX/XviD playback, and TV out – leave no doubt that the Pixon is all about multimedia.

And that brings us back to how Samsung handle their cameraphone strategy. Efforts at this point are shared between an 8MP all-in-one and an 8MP touchscreen. Being humbled by the INNOV8 may seem just right for the Pixon but it’s interesting to see how it handles pressure from the true – and loaded – competitors like LG Renoir and SE C905.

Anyway, the Pixon may be a couple of high-tech goodies short but what’s there makes perfect sense. The nice and sharp TouchWiz UI, cool web and music, and high-end imaging sure sell.

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