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Samsung has recently launched its 12 megapixel monster, Pixon 12 in India. The phone was officially unveiled (Worldwide) by Samsung in the month of June 2009. Looking at its specs, the phone looks more like a digital camera with voice communication functionality. The Pixon 12 AKA Samsung M8910 boasts of touch auto focus ( like the iPhone 3GS), Xenon Flash, Image stabilizer, 28mm wide angle lens, auto set-up based on environment, face and smile detection, DVD resolution video recording. The Pixon 12 is positioned as an perfect imaging phone. Apart from the imaging features, the phone's other features are pretty impressive with 3.1 inch AMOLED touch screen, HSPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, A-GPS, DivX and XviD support and microSD slot. Pixon 12 is the successor of the Pixon 8 and was supposed to launch at the Mobile World Congress 2009 but didn't make it. Now it has come in India and will be available at a retail price of INR 29,990.

It was rumored to be coming in the Nokia World 2009 but it did not, there have been talks about It coming every month but nobody ever got any pics or any info about the Nokia phones with a 12 meg snapper until today. Chilko of Mobile Bulgaria has got his hands on a picture that shows a Nokia phone with 12 meg snapper. Check out the picture below, Cellpassion picked it from Chilko's Twitter account. To me, the phone looks like a more enhanced version of the N93i and the back paneling is pretty unusual.

EISA [European Imaging and Sound Association] has announced awards for mobile devices in different categories for the European region. Like other day to day electronics and gadgets, EISA also gives awards to different models of mobile handsets that fit into this mobile devices category. This year's winners in the mobile devices category have been announced by the EISA. European Music Phone of the Year award has gone to Sony Ericsson W995, the phone's Music player, Walkman 4.0 feature, standard headphone jack, shake control are some of the features that make it a winner. European Business Phone of the Year has gone to Nokia E75, who else will get this award especially after you make such a robust keyboard and easy to set-up email client and other apps that make the life of a business user simple. European Camera Phone of the Year has gone to the Samsung i8910 AKA Samsung Omnia HD for its 8 meg snapper, HD video capability and afferent camera modes including the awesome panorama mode. European Smartphone of the Year has gone to Apple's iPhone 3GS, the fastest iPhone till date. Features that helped the iPhone 3GS in grabbing this award are Bluetooth (stereo bluetooth), MMS, Copy&Paste, 3 meg snapper with auto focus (especially touch to focus feature, which is really cool) and video recording.

Remember the Hitachi Mobile Cam vision WOOO, worlds firs mobile phone with HD recording capabilities. The phone is all set to launch in Japan (sadly) on KDDI. As you would have already guessed the phone is pretty high-end with features like 5 meg snapper, 720p HD Video recording facility, TV Tuner, 8GB of microSD card support. The phone's HD recording feature makes sense as it aslo has a HDMI output for you to enjoy the videos on your big screen HD TV. Enjoy the video below. By the way this phone will only be available in Japan and no where else.

Recently Samsung announced the launch of Pixon 12, its first mobile phone with 12 megapixel snapper that didn't make It to the Mobile World Congress 2009 but will see the light soon. Beat this, it is rumored that Samsung is going to announce a new phone with 12 mega pixel snapper and 3X optical zoom and Xenon flash in the second week of June. Optical zoom is one feature that most mobile phone camera users have been craving for and Samsung will the first one to give it to them. The pace at which Samsung is launching these high-end imaging phones makes you think, what exactly are they planning to do with this huge and costly portfolio of imaging phones. I guess this one the Pixon 12 only and not any other imaging phone from the Korean mobile giant. [Via]

Meet the newest 12 megapixel snapper phone on the block. This one is by Samsung, called the Pixon 12 with a 12 mega pixel camera and is the upgrade over the earlier Pixon, which had 8 mega pixel camera. Samsung was suppposed to launch this phone at the MWC 2009. The phone sports a 28mm wide-angle lens, touch auto focus, smart auto that decides the ISO, exposure. The phone also features Xenon flash, digital zoom, face recognition, shake reduction and beauty shot. Other features include. 31. inch AMOLED screen, quad-band GSM, GPS, Wi-Fi, HSUPA, social networking support via SharePix and FM radio with RDS. But every time some company launches a phone with massive camera specs like these, I keep asking is it worth the buy or just another effort to show your technological prowess? Anyway, Pixon 12 will be available in June across European markets, no info on the pricing as well as availability in other markets like Asia and US.

Samsung has launched one more mobile phone with a 8 mega pixel snapper, the Samsung SCH-W740. The phone's 8 mega pixel snapper features a Auto Focus and Face Tagging feature. You and me have heard of mobile phone cameras with geo tagging, now what the hell is Face Tagging? When you add a tag to someones picture you have clicked and he is in your phone book, then you can send a SMS or call that person directly from the image, ain't it cool!! You browsing through your personal album and you are looking at your girlfriend's picture, you can send a SMS or call her instantly. The phone's camera has other features like Auto Focus, Face Detection, different scenery modes and a Business Card scanner. As of now, the phone will be available in the Korean market. Other mobile phones from Samsung that feature a 8 mega pixel snapper are the Samsung Pixon and the Samsung INNOVATE.

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Remember C905 a.k.a Shiho, the 8 mega pixel imaging monster from Sony Ericsson??? There are strong rumors going around that a new version of this phone will soon be launched by Sony Ericsson. If you are thinking that the new version will have a more enhanced camera then you are wrong. The new version or the rumored version will have 8GB of Internal memory for massive photo storage. Being an Imaging focused phone having a beefed up internal memory is an added advantage for this phone. Other specifications of the Shiho or the C905 include, Cybershot-slider, 8 Mega pixel with AF and optical zoom, Xenon-Flash / Photo-Flash combo, 2,4" QVGA-Display, HSDPA, HSUPA, A-GPS, WLAN, TV/Out (VGA@30fps), Bluetooth 2.1, A300 / A3 platform.

After a lot of leaking that happened in the last two days, Nokia has finally officially released its first N Series phone with a 8 mega pixel snapper, the N86. The N86 surfaced at the Nokia Showcase 2009 in Singapore. Nokia has finally entered into the 8 mega pixel race and will now face Samsung, Sony Ericsson as its competitors, who have already launched their high resolution camera phones. Carl Ziess is the lens provider for the N86 and the camera features a 3rd generation dual LED flash technology. Nokia says that the camera in the N86 can be compared to a stand-alone high end digital camera.

The resolution is backed by 2.6 inch OLED QVGA screen with hardened glass, so that you don't get any scratches on your phone's display..this is something really cool. Hardened scratch glass you get to see only in premium or costly phones like the Vertus and the Porsches. The phone has a beefed up 8GB in-built memory with microSD card support. Apart from this, N86 boasts of GPS, WiFi, TV Our, compass functionality, HSDPA. As leaked earlier the phone will be shipping out in the second quarter of 2009 with a price tag of INR 23K.

Check out the interview below, which tells you more about the N86:

Nokia's new 8 mega pixel flagship camera phone model, the N86 with massive 8 mega pixel snapper surfaced at the Nokia Showcase 2009, Singapore. Everybody was waiting that it will be showcased at the on going Mobile World Congress 2009. Check out the live pics and click here for a sneak peek at N86's specs. Nokia N86 White Paper. The handset will be coming in the second quarter of 2009.

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Samsung has officially announced, S8300, its new 8 megapixel slider phone with touch screen. Akihabara News was the first one to get hold on this piece of information. S8300 features a massive 2.8 inch Ultra Touch, WQVGA AMOLEd screen with 8 mega pixel snapper. The phone is a photographer's delight with LED flash, Auto Focus, Face and Smile Detection. You can also Geotag your photos using the S8300. Other features include, DivX support, XVid, WM9 and MPEG4 support. The phone can record videos at 30FPS in VGA mode. Multimedia features include FM with RDS, audio player compatibility with MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA files. Bluetooth connectivity, A-GPS. The phone will come with 80MB on-board memory plus a memory card support with microSDHC slot up to 16GB, just like its massive touch screen.

Everybody was wondering that this phone will be made official @ the Mobile World Congress 2009 but it has been made official by Samsung much before that. So, Samsung's 12 mega pixel imaging phone from Samsung is soon to follow.

More pictures of the S8300 Via Daily Mobile:

Samsung is once again geared up to launch its new touch screen phone with 8 mega-pixel snapper. This one comes few weeks after Samsung launched its another Symbian based mobile phone, INNOVATE. Even INNOVATE had 8 mega-pixel snapper and whooping 16 GB of beefed up memory for all your multimedia needs. The new mobile phone will be called as the M8800 or Samsung Bresson M8800. The mobile phone boasts of 16 million color 3.2 inch scree, HSDPA data transfers and built-in GPS functionality. Now if you are wondering that why this new mobile phone is called Bresson then you wont be much surprised to hear the reasoning behind this. Apparently there is a rumor going on that Samsung might have named this phone after the famous French photographer, Henry Cartier Bresson. Now you don’t get any point for guessing that, this phone is any photographer's handy tool for clicking some good shots. With Bresson, Samsung has improved the overall multimedia experience that its previous phone like the Omnia and the INNOVATE are giving. Bresson is just 15.5 mm thick and many people including me are of this opinion that it will compete well with Nokia's N96 rather than the iPhone. Anyway, this baby looks one hell of an imaging phone man!!! What do you guys say??