Samsung SCH-B600

This new phone from Samsung is extremely interesting. Why? Well, instead of calling the Samsung SCH-B600 a phone, we could call it a camera. A 10 megapixel camera with 3 times optical zoom a 2.2 inch color display, DMB satellite TV reception, music and image playback, voice recognition and bluetooth. Impressive

Samsung have announced a 10 megapixel camera phone on the opening day of CeBIT 2006. Maybe I should say that again - a 10 megapixel camera phone! That's more megapixellage than most digital SLR cameras. But that's not all. Rather than just relying on the number of megapixels to wow the crowd, Samsung also provide this beast of a mobile phone with a 3x optical zoom (not digital, like most camera phones: optical, meaning it actually works without pixellating your image), flash and 1/2000th of a second shutter speed.
This may be a way of Samsung laughing in the face of Sony's recently announced 3.2 megapixel CyberShot camera phone. Whatever, if mobile TV is meant to be the mobile gadget extra of the year, no-one told the camera phone makers!

Samsung 7.7 megapixel camera phone with optical zoom - SCH B500

This camera phone is certainly more of a camera and less of a phone, especially when you see it from the back. The slider handset which goes by the name of SCH B500 is quite thick to accomodate the camera lens - 18.5 mm to be precise. The SCH B500 does not simply bank on the credit of having a 7.7 megapixel camera either; its a DMB phone so it can recieve and allow the user to view satellite TV as well. Since the phone can take such high resolution pictures, the user is bound to run out of storage space sooner or later, a problem easily solved by getting T-flash (trans flash) memory cards which the phone supports. The pictures can then be later seen on a TV screen thanks to the TV out function of the SCH B500.
The large display goes into landscape mode once the camera is activated. The SCH B500 is expected to be available to Korean users initially via SK Telecom.