Device will capture high-resolution still images and video, and it still makes phone calls!
Samsung Electronics will begin selling a cell phone that includes a 5-megapixel digital camera, the company says. The device will be available in South Korea later this month.
The camera was developed in cooperation with Japan's Pentax and its resolution significantly exceeds that available from competing camera phones. At present the highest resolution camera phones have 3-megapixel class image sensors, although that's only on a handful of models. Most phones offer between 300,000 pixel and 2-megapixel resolution at present.
Several other features of the new Samsung phone are closer to that of a digital still camera than a conventional cell phone, including the shutter speed, which can be as fast as 1/1000th of a second, according to a Samsung statement.
There is also a movie mode. Up to 100 minutes of QVGA-resolution (320 pixels by 240 pixels) video can be stored in the phone's internal 92MB memory, Samsung says. The phone supports RS-MMC (Reduced Size Multimedia Card) memory cards for additional storage.
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