Hitachi's Mobile Hi-Vision Cam Wooo cellphone does 720p video recording

While it won't be the first handset to capture 720p video (hello, OmniaHD!), Hitachi's Mobile Hi-Vision Cam Woo is still apt to garner quite a bit of attention. As the leaked images hosted down below show, this clever flip phone packs 1,280 x 720 video recording, a 5 megapixel sensor, HDMI interface and a microSDHC slot for good measure. A generous tipster has informed us that said phone is slated to launch this coming Monday on KDDI, though we fully expect that envious North Americans won't ever get to toy with one on their home turf. For shame.

[Thanks, Anonymous]

Gallery: Hitachi's Mobile Hi-Vision Cam Wooo cellphone does 720p video recording

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[Brickster @ May 22nd 2009 7:05AM]

Wooo!

[Mike @ May 22nd 2009 7:51AM]

This message and video phone are approved by Rick Flair.

[darkmax @ May 22nd 2009 7:05AM]

too bad, probably won't even see it in the rest of Asia.

[Level 5 @ May 22nd 2009 7:06AM]

Well... if the crappy CMOS sensors we get on cell cams in the States are any indication, this will shoot 720p res sure, but it'll be crappy and grainy in anything but sunlight. But maybe since this has a lens larger than a pinhole and it's made by a dedicate camera company, it might actually be awesome. Too bad I'll never see one in real life to be sure.

[darkmax @ May 22nd 2009 7:16AM]

it's actually not that bad. But if you know beforehand that you'll be doing a video in the dark, you should prep something better. Of course unless you are talking about Paris Hilton and you in a hotel room.....

[neal @ May 22nd 2009 7:19AM]

i though the phones in japan would be capturing 1080p AT LEAST by now =S

[William Su @ May 23rd 2009 1:01AM]

lol a few do but unfotunatly none anywhere else

[King Mustard @ May 22nd 2009 7:21AM]

Interesting form factor! I can see such a form factor allowing cameras with decent size lenses, perhaps even an optical zoom.

[Al @ May 22nd 2009 12:04PM]

Dang, I was thinking up that form factor recently and here it is. I need to think up some bikini models.

[liam devlin @ May 22nd 2009 9:39AM]

oooo. you can now capture upskirt shots in 720p. yay. :P

[peepeepants @ May 22nd 2009 4:11PM]

I taped my iPhone to my Canon HV20, and it works just fine, thank you very much.

[Jamar @ May 23rd 2009 9:43AM]

See, and in America Verizon is releasing the same ol' crap.