NEWS Samsung has taken the wraps off the world's first five megapixel phone, the SCH-S250, taking the handset's photo capability above to the level of most conventional digital cameras.
To go with the souped-up camera, Samsung has improved the handset's display, upping the number of 'colours' it can display from a regular mobile's 262,000 to 16 million. The phone also comes with a built-in flash and was developed with camera maker Pentax.
Among its other features, the camera phone lists MP3 player and text-to-speech conversion.
From this month, the stretch design phone will, however, only be available in the company's native South Korea.
The UK currently has no operator offering even a two megapixel camera phone, although Vodafone have announced they are to release one in time for the Christmas phone buying rush.
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1. anonymous
now all it needs is a docking cradle with keyboard/mouse and vga ports.
a CF/microdrive slot would be nice too...
maybe 802.11g networking as well.....
hint hint.
2. anonymous
What we really need is a combination of PDA with built-in GPS route planning (and speed-camera locations), phone and a really high-quality fully-featured camera. And in time it will happen, of course.