Samsung's i8510 inspires 8 megapixels of awe

Yeah, we know pixel count doesn't equal picture quality -- but like it or not, it looks like 8 megapixels are poised to become the new 5 megapixels in the upper echelon of the cameraphone world this year. Samsung's never a company to shy away from a challenge like that, and sure enough, details are emerging on a so-called i8510 smartphone that features S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2, 7.2Mbps HSDPA, FM radio, GPS, WiFi, and a whopping 16GB of internal storage -- not to mention a microSD slot that can take you up to 24GB. Oh, and there's the little matter of that camera, which features an dual LED flash and 120fps video capture at QVGA resolution. Add in DivX and DLNA certification, and we're kind of at a loss to figure out what's missing here. Boundless, unchecked hype, maybe? No word on a release date here just yet.

[Via mobil.cz]

[eggothewaffle @ Jul 13th 2008 1:38AM]

Mmm...The N96 finally gets some competition :]

[deyanimay @ Jul 13th 2008 1:44AM]

iWant.

[loosely_coupled @ Jul 13th 2008 2:58AM]

I doubt it.

I could care less about the pixel count, Whats the SENSOR SIZE?!?

[gad get @ Jul 13th 2008 3:12AM]

@ loosely_coupled

Puny. It's a cell phone. Don't expect anything spectacular, is all I can say.

That high frame rate video capability and the 16 gig internal storage make it look like a pretty sweet phone, nonetheless.

[Pdexter @ Jul 13th 2008 7:14AM]

Nokia got it's 8mp phone coming before SE's no idea when this Samsung is out thought. Nokia seem to have gotten the strategy with high end phones that they announce the phone and release it immediatly. Opposite to SE ;)
If the Nokia's 8mp is a disapointment this phone seem a worthy replace.

From Eldar(the guy who has every SE, Nokia phone year beofre anybody else.
http://www.mobile-review.com/articles/2008/birulki-6-en.shtml

"It seems that the C905 has it all, but at the same time you can’t get rid of the feeling that something isn’t right, something is missing. Over at Nokia they are probably jiggling right now, while preparing their “Hello again!” operation. Their offering with a mind-blowing megapixel count is set to launch right before the C905’s release day and it will start shipping immediately."

[Steffen Jobbs @ Jul 13th 2008 5:25PM]

Oh look! It's another iPhone. A Samsung "i"8510. This phone has a heck of a lot of hardware in it. I'd love to check out it's weight and battery life. One thing it definitely has going for it is that memory card slot. I'd like to say it's crap, but it does have all the features to make it theoretically a fine handset.

[deyanimay @ Jul 13th 2008 1:44AM]

You win some you lose some.

[thedesolate1 @ Jul 13th 2008 1:53AM]

Yay! bring on the Nokia N105. Its about time some1 gives them the incentive to make the successor to the 2 year old N95. these specs are sweet though. no denying that.

[Phoenix @ Jul 13th 2008 10:04AM]

They ARE making a new one... Did you manage to miss EVERYTHING about the n96 so far?

[thedesolate1 @ Jul 13th 2008 12:36PM]

yes I have but I only consider it a marginal update to the n95 like the iphone 3g is to the original iphone. The N96 doesnt give a compelling reason to upgrade... so yeah im waiting on the next one with the 8 mp cam and bigger screen and faster specs... also i live in the states so dvb-h tv is a no go...

[Kyle Krcmaric @ Jul 13th 2008 1:56AM]

Fail.

[andres @ Jul 13th 2008 1:59AM]

you are missing some first place

[alechko @ Jul 13th 2008 2:03AM]

LOL, missed by 1 minute.

[trappy @ Jul 13th 2008 2:04AM]

WHAT? I thought 2mp was state-of-the-art?!

[gad get @ Jul 13th 2008 3:13AM]

WHAT? You thought 2mp was state-of-the-art?!

[trappy @ Jul 13th 2008 3:21AM]

Yeah. The papers and internets are full of people standing in line for 2mp phones....

[Don Giovanni @ Jul 13th 2008 10:01AM]

sorry to be so pedantic, but there is only one internet.
carry on :-\

[Ian @ Jul 13th 2008 10:53AM]

There are 2 internets. Just saying.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet2

[s @ Jul 13th 2008 4:33PM]

wow all of you have an awful sense of humour except for the OP lol

[clak jr @ Jul 14th 2008 11:26AM]

So where can i log onto this Internet 2.0????

[triela @ Jul 13th 2008 2:04AM]

"Dual LED" flash? That's just twice the failure. What's the point of 8MP without xenon flash?

[gad get @ Jul 13th 2008 3:14AM]

Save the bashing till you see the flash in action.

[Mark Anderson @ Jul 13th 2008 2:18PM]

Ever tried to record video with a Xenon flash?

[heshmati4 @ Jul 13th 2008 2:14AM]

I'm surprise no one mentioned the iphone yet!!!

Opps!

[nerdtalker @ Jul 13th 2008 2:20AM]

They all have one, they're using it to do "serious business" and catch up on everything they missed while waiting in line...

[spass @ Jul 13th 2008 2:35AM]

I would have, but I was late, with a frustrated tone...

[deyanimay @ Jul 13th 2008 5:28AM]

You are a retard. There is no way to make a "mistake" in a post point it out and act like it was an accident. You could have saved our time and yours by not posting at all.

[Fozzy Bear @ Jul 13th 2008 11:19PM]

@deyanimay

same for you... a whining disciplinarian has to be the ultimate paradox.

[Brooks @ Jul 13th 2008 2:17AM]

All this and more with a fantastic 5 minutes a battery life!

Seriously, won't this thing have to me a brick to support all that hardware?

[Justin @ Jul 13th 2008 4:41AM]

shhhh... you can only criticize the iPhone...

[Mark Anderson @ Jul 13th 2008 2:20PM]

Nope. Power management on the latest N series firmware is miles better than it was - which, let's face it, it had to be - so I assume SE will have picked up on this too.

[collegekid13 @ Jul 13th 2008 2:18AM]

i want now. dont care bout price. bring it to canada and i'm sold rogers or not.

[Rich @ Jul 13th 2008 4:33AM]

Can you imagine the contract you'd have to sign up for this bad boy? I reckon 5 years minimum...

[zomg0t @ Jul 13th 2008 2:19AM]

I wouldn't exactly call this article "Boundless, unchecked hype" over the i8510, especially after the past two days...

[Chris Ziegler @ Jul 13th 2008 2:35AM]

Was trying to make a funny, but apparently failed.

[zomg0t @ Jul 13th 2008 2:52AM]

Not so much funny as clever. But I apologize if I hurt your feelings Chris: I didn't mean for my comment to seem like a personal attack. It was just an observation of Engadget's concentration of coverage on a certain product released on Friday. Please don't take it the wrong way; after all, you only posted one article on the iPhone this weekend.

[gad get @ Jul 13th 2008 3:16AM]

@ zomg0t

Oh, you hurt his feelings, all right. He's about to jump off a bridge now.

[Justin @ Jul 13th 2008 4:54AM]

If this phone gets lines the night before it comes out and sells out to crowds of people world wide, then I'm SURE they'll cover any other cell phone (or even tech gadget) the same way...

[eggothewaffle @ Jul 13th 2008 5:02AM]

Chris, I thought your joke was really well done, e specially in light of what's been recently going on in the mobile phone world.

In the immortal words of the Ruff Ryders, that collective font of contemporary urban wisdom, "fukk da haterz."

[chickenator @ Jul 13th 2008 5:17AM]

lol it's funny actually

[marK @ Jul 13th 2008 2:19AM]

..caught myself doing the open-mouth stare.

[Brooks @ Jul 13th 2008 2:19AM]

*of *be

[gad get @ Jul 13th 2008 3:18AM]

I know what you mean, but I suspect many won't.

[kickenchicken @ Jul 13th 2008 2:27AM]

Why should it have to be a brick?
I know, I'm tired of all the iPhone news, but its w/e.
Think about it. The iPhone has 3G, Bluetooth, GPS, WiFi, Huge Gorgeous Touch Screen, 16GBs,. This has that and a little bit more, so I'm guessing it really won't be that big at all, especially seeing how small and energy efficient components are getting these days.

[Pyrotech @ Jul 13th 2008 2:30AM]

"There is a LED flash on the Samsung i8510, which as a xenon one is highly appreciated in any cameraphone."

http://www.gsmarena.com/8_mp_samsung_i8510_primera_surfaces_has_it_all_but_the_kitchen_sink-news-546.php


Xenon LED?

[andres @ Jul 13th 2008 2:37AM]

lol

[derX @ Jul 13th 2008 5:06AM]

Where do you get that quote from? (And to those pesky grammarians, yeah I ended with "from," whatchu gonna do about it?) Maybe they've edited it because now it says the following:

"There is a LED flash on the Samsung i8510 - pity since a xenon one is highly appreciated in any cameraphone."

[Alex @ Jul 13th 2008 2:32AM]

Just looking at that thing's home screen I can tell it would be like going back to WIn95 compared to the OS on the iPhone.

Did they miss the memo? People don't care about features if they aren't intuitive/enjoyable to use. Who cares if it has 8 megapixels when the phone looks like it's running on a decade old OS that relies on the same method of user input that's been around since the first brick phones rolled off the assembly line.

This is just another random Samsung phone that no one wants to develop (hardware OR software) for because it 1. won't be around in a year 2. very few people will actually buy it.

Do you hear about BMW and Mercedes developing full i8510 integration? Didn't think so.

[collegekid13 @ Jul 13th 2008 3:04AM]

the os is an after thought. i want to buy it and can adapt to anything. as well i don't want to afford the iphones puny hdd (not hdd) capacity. my 160g ipod works just fine. this has everything i want in a not laptop

[sam @ Jul 13th 2008 3:05AM]

that's one stupid comment on so many levels i lost the count. you have no way of knowing what the usability of this thing is based on one picture. s60 phones are sold 10-20 times the amount of, say iphone. i wouldn't call that exactly "no-one wants to buy", at least if you don't refer to "no-one wants to buy iphone". touchscreens have been around since the 60s and there's a good reason they never became dominant. self life of mobile phone models is slightly longer than 1 year, if you check the reviews on iphone, most of them say "nothing new here, move along". and it's really bmw&mercedes loss if they buy the hype of one marginal phone...

come holiday shopping season and these 8mpix phones from sony, samsung, lg and nokia are sold several times more than iphone.