At this point, it's tough to say the
Memoir wasn't official with a straight face, but Samsung and T-Mobile have jointly disclosed all (er, most) of the remaining details that were so sorely missing here at Mobile World Congress. The 8 megapixel handset will boast a Xenon flash, CMOS auto focus and 16x digital zoom, not to mention a full touchscreen and a sophisticated camera menu that enables users to adjust the brightness and flash, change the default destination of images, select a timer and zoom in or out. Moreover, the video recording and TV-out features should provide even more joy in the lives of multimedia lovers, and the blink detection, face detection, anti-shake and geotagging inclusions should shake off any remaining pundits who say there's not a "real camera" in here. As anticipated, the phone will launch exclusively on T-Mobile USA in just ten days (February 25, if you're too excited for math), though there's
still no mention of a price. Procrastinate much?
Update: Boom, pricing -- $249.99 on a two-year contract with a $50 mail-in rebate. Not the cheapest thing we've ever seen, but you get what you pay for, yeah?
posted February 15th 2009 12:38PM
Seems WIN!
wow,priced higher than the iphone in the usa means guaranteed early cellphone death.
according to my t-mobile rep best buy will have it for 150 and no rebate i guess we will see in a few days
Digital zoom; why?
Yea, I'm sorry, but a real camera has optical zoom.
So close, yet so far.
why no wi-fi t-mobile? why? you have @home but no 3g in a lot of areas. oi vay
I've heard but can't confirm that the necessary work for doing UMA with a WCDMA network on the AWS band hasn't been fully implemented, so they as of yet can't have Hotspot@Home and 3G on the same device... but as I said, I can't confirm it...
TMo seems to be getting better in terms of phones these days
what a shame they have crap service most places
The no WiFi part killed it for me. It's 2009 and a phone that phat with everything else but a tiny WiFi chip is a no no for me.
Yeah, it's for the photography masses.... ooh and I like taking pictures too but I also like surfing the web when I don't feel like taking pictures
8mp is wasted on a phone. Just because you can cram it in there and add some features, doesn't make it a camera. And it would have to have a digital zoom as there is no way you could put moving lens elements in the phone and still make it rugged enough to handle being dropped as happens to most phones. Buy a camera. Buy a phone. Buy both. But no one needs to have 8mp grainy drinking at the bar photos. And the resolution means that it wont be long before you wont be allowed to take a phone to a concert as bands will be afraid of people selling half way good images of performances.
Of course if it was a camera with a phone built into it, that would be different. ;)
Can ANYBODY tell me the difference between this and the Samsung M8800 Pixon I have in my pocket that has been out for a couple of months? I thought this was a blog about NEW gadgets; don't bore us with old stuff just because it's new to the shores of the US. You guys are so backward when it comes to phones and cars... Hell, even the iPhone was designed by a Brit (following a German example).
wow,priced higher than the iphone in the usa means guaranteed early cellphone death
ya well Samsung=shit, and no optical zoom, fuck that phone
well Samsung=shit and a with no optical zoom, you'll never be able to zoom in with a good shot, fuck it.
what a wicked thing you do, when you don't mention that's helena christensen....
They make a big deal out of the camera, but I'm concerned. The 3rd pic of the women shooting the wall- the sign is clearly a violet color, yet it shows as purple on her LCD screen. So if color is inaccurate on the view screen, I wonder what the photos will look like.
... This phone has the makings of a failure by epic proportions.
One. Who was the twat that decided to place a $299.99 price-tag on this phone with a two-year contract? For that might as well get the slimmer/more attractive/and more productive iPhone. It doesn't even bring 16gb of memory to store songs, pictures, and such... Wow, more money to spend out of pocket, yay! Sigh.
Two. Come on, look at the size of that phone, you could break a bullet proof glass with it. A phone that thick is not very convenient in today's slim-line infatuated world. Plus, no WiFi? Is this a joke? I suppose T-Mobile is trying to force people to go with their newly over-priced data/text services, which speed is not up to par to its AT&T counterpart. 3 more months until my contract expires, and off to AT&T I go, or to Verizon for the Blackberry Storm.