Samsung M8910 Pixon12 preview 2: Some sequals are better
Gsmarena have posted part 2 of their Samsung M8910 Pixon12 preview. Here are the phone's features and final impression.
Samsung M8910 Pixon12 at a glance:
General: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, UMTS 900/2100 MHz, HSDPA 7.2Mbps, HSUPA
Form factor: Touchscreen bar
Dimensions: 108 x 53 x 13.8 mm, 120g
Display: 3.1 inch 16M color WVGA AMOLED resistive touchscreen
Platform: Latest TouchWiz 2.0 UI with Smart unlock
Memory: 150MB integrated memory, hot-swappable microSD card slot (up to 16GB)
Camera: 12 megapixel auto focus camera with Power LED flash and xenon flash, wide-angle 28mm lens, object tracking auto focus, automatic lens cover, geo-tagging, image stabilization, Smart Auto mode, face detection, Beauty Shot, Smile Shot and D1 video recording at 30 fps with auto focus and face detection
Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, standard microUSB port, GPS receiver with A-GPS, TV out
Misc: Accelerometer for screen auto rotate and turn-to-mute, FM radio with RDS, DivX/XviD video support
Battery: 1000mAh Li-Ion battery
Samsung are clearly on the hunt for the top all-in-one mobile and the Pixon12 seems a nice step forward. And when you consider it should hit the European market this very month, we can understand the users excitement and the pressure is all on us and our fellow tech journalists to make it clear what the Pixon12 is worth. The steep price (rumored at 639 euro in Spain) puts the Pixon12 in a quite unfavorable position of either ruling all current high-end handsets (Samsung's own inclusive) or fade into oblivion as a mere proof of concept than anything else.
The Samsung Pixon12 is not a smartphone such as the Sony Ericsson Satio or even the Omnia HD. Instead it runs the all new TouchWiz 2.0 interface. More beautiful and user-friendly than ever before, the new user interface is pitched by Samsung as "smarter than a smartphone". And they might have a point there - much like the Samsung S8000 Jet, there's some serious hardware in there and the whole device is as fast as you may want. There's full featured multi-tasking as well, along with a GPS navigation software and the spanking new WebKit-based web browser developed by Samsung themselves.
We gotta admit, camera or not, the Pixon12 packs quite a punch, but if you are really into expanding your handset capabilities with third-party applications, a non-smartphone won't do it. For everything else, the Samsung Pixon12 and its TouchWiz UI 2.0 is pretty much enough by our books.
Now we know we may have stepped over the line here and produced a rather elated preview (much like the one yesterday), but that's partly due to the fact that we really excited by the Pixon12 (something quite rare for a bunch of tech editors that have mobile phones for breakfast and lunch), and also because we tend to leave our nit-picking goggles behind when we're working on such preview articles (those do come up when we do our reviews).
Samsung M8910 Pixon12 at a glance:
General: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, UMTS 900/2100 MHz, HSDPA 7.2Mbps, HSUPA
Form factor: Touchscreen bar
Dimensions: 108 x 53 x 13.8 mm, 120g
Display: 3.1 inch 16M color WVGA AMOLED resistive touchscreen
Platform: Latest TouchWiz 2.0 UI with Smart unlock
Memory: 150MB integrated memory, hot-swappable microSD card slot (up to 16GB)
Camera: 12 megapixel auto focus camera with Power LED flash and xenon flash, wide-angle 28mm lens, object tracking auto focus, automatic lens cover, geo-tagging, image stabilization, Smart Auto mode, face detection, Beauty Shot, Smile Shot and D1 video recording at 30 fps with auto focus and face detection
Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, standard microUSB port, GPS receiver with A-GPS, TV out
Misc: Accelerometer for screen auto rotate and turn-to-mute, FM radio with RDS, DivX/XviD video support
Battery: 1000mAh Li-Ion battery
Samsung are clearly on the hunt for the top all-in-one mobile and the Pixon12 seems a nice step forward. And when you consider it should hit the European market this very month, we can understand the users excitement and the pressure is all on us and our fellow tech journalists to make it clear what the Pixon12 is worth. The steep price (rumored at 639 euro in Spain) puts the Pixon12 in a quite unfavorable position of either ruling all current high-end handsets (Samsung's own inclusive) or fade into oblivion as a mere proof of concept than anything else.
The Samsung Pixon12 is not a smartphone such as the Sony Ericsson Satio or even the Omnia HD. Instead it runs the all new TouchWiz 2.0 interface. More beautiful and user-friendly than ever before, the new user interface is pitched by Samsung as "smarter than a smartphone". And they might have a point there - much like the Samsung S8000 Jet, there's some serious hardware in there and the whole device is as fast as you may want. There's full featured multi-tasking as well, along with a GPS navigation software and the spanking new WebKit-based web browser developed by Samsung themselves.
We gotta admit, camera or not, the Pixon12 packs quite a punch, but if you are really into expanding your handset capabilities with third-party applications, a non-smartphone won't do it. For everything else, the Samsung Pixon12 and its TouchWiz UI 2.0 is pretty much enough by our books.
Now we know we may have stepped over the line here and produced a rather elated preview (much like the one yesterday), but that's partly due to the fact that we really excited by the Pixon12 (something quite rare for a bunch of tech editors that have mobile phones for breakfast and lunch), and also because we tend to leave our nit-picking goggles behind when we're working on such preview articles (those do come up when we do our reviews).
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