....on a cell phone.


http://news.com.com/2061-10801_3-6124370.html

Quote :

"Looking at Samsung's latest gadget, I can't tell if it's a phone with a camera or a camera with a phone. But maybe it doesn't matter. The point is, the SCH-B600 officially released on the Korean market only today, and it's a phone with a 10-megapixel camera. And the price--I kid you not--is 900,000 won or $900 dollars. Samsung originally announced the product in March. See CNET's video and review from CTIA in April here. The candy bar-style phone and camera combo is 6 millimeters thinner and 10 grams lighter than Samsung's 7-megapixel camera phone, introduced in July 2005, but is still grossly overweight compared to the phone the Korean electronics giant introduced a few weeks ago, the impossibly skinny Trace. Of course, that little handset isn't stuffed to the gills with nifty features like the B600. (Are you ready? It's quite a list.) Besides sporting a camera with 3x optical zoom and 5x digital zoom, it has 2.2-inch TFT-LCD display on which hip Koreans can watch live TV via Satellite Digital Multimedia Broadcast (S-DMB) transmission. The camera phone can also capture video in QVGA (320-by-240-pixel resolution) at 15 to 30 frames per second. The Bluetooth feature then lets you send pictures to other mobile phones or printers. And, oh yeah, it has an MP3 player, business card reader and can massage your eardrums with 128 polyphonic sounds. OK, I'm exhausted now. "

10/11/2006 10:20:45 PM

why?

is there a sudden surge in billboard ads that i don't know about

[Edited on October 11, 2006 at 10:38 PM. Reason : .]

10/11/2006 10:38:01 PM

you know, i always thought a camera on a phone was STUPID as could be, until i found the exact phone that i wanted that just happened to have a camera on it...i can honestly say there have been a couple of times where i've been glad to have it...do i need 10mp? of course not, but i guess if it came with my phone and i wanted a camera, i'd rather have a decently detailed picture than some tiny, grainy one

10/11/2006 10:56:45 PM

the only shitty thing about camera phones is that you damn near can't find a phone without a camera any more. They're completely ubiquitous. My g/f got a job at a defense contractor that does not allow cameras on their campus. (they've relaxed the rules just because nobody can buy a phone without a camera)

10/11/2006 11:17:20 PM

$950

http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/10/samsungs-10-megapixel-sch-b600-cameraphone-hits-for-950/

10/11/2006 11:26:08 PM

i can't justify spending close to $1000 for a camera phone

10/12/2006 10:58:28 AM

the only situation i could ever come up with in which it would be beneficial to have a phone with a camera is the event that you get into a wreck or some other situation where you'd need to document something legally and wouldn't be carrying a camera.

any other time you might as well have a camera with you.

10/12/2006 12:26:27 PM

^ Same here. I started road cycling this past year and the all too frequent run ins with assholes who don't think we have a right to be on their road has made me wish I could document their swerving at our group as they rode along yelling profanity at us and accelerating in front and then cutting us off while locking up their breaks.

10/12/2006 12:29:09 PM

tons of times mine has come in handy, and I am definitely in the "what the fuck am i going to need this for" crowd.

10mp would be awesome, so I can capture insanely large, badly lit, blurry and badly focused images instead of the 1.3mp badly lit, blurry, badly focused images of today.

^^^ 900 bucks aint bad, in the US market it will end up being like 400-500 if it makes it here

[Edited on October 12, 2006 at 12:32 PM. Reason : .]

10/12/2006 12:31:28 PM

Thats actually not impressive at all.

10/12/2006 9:53:07 PM

samsung already has a 3.2 megapixel camera phone on the market.. its pretty nice actually, just very expensive

the a-990

10/14/2006 9:14:11 AM

man fuck this shit, i got a 15 megapixel phone now

10/14/2006 9:55:43 AM

Quote :

"samsung already has a 3.2 megapixel camera phone on the market.. its pretty nice actually, just very expensive "

i have one via my phone insurance because the no longer made the a970 its a great camera and a decent phone (VZW makes everything usless)

10/14/2006 3:59:39 PM