Samsung M8910 Pixon12 preview: Firing the first rounds
Gsmarena have posted a preview of the Samsung M8910 Pixon12. 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
If you've paid attention to all those images up there (and we bet you have), you should have noticed that the Samsung Pixon12 produces pleasant images with correct colors.
The perfect edge to edge sharpness shows the use of a high quality lens. The Pixon12 contrast is a little high, which usually makes the photos look more attractive, but the good news is that this rarely results in overblown highlights.
Overall the images processing is very good and rock solid with only a slight touch of oversharpening. As it seems Samsung R&D team have struck a nice balance of relatively low noise levels and well presented fine details.
We were also surprised to see that a 12 megapixel cameraphone can reach the detail resolved by a true DSLR (given the favorable light conditions, of course).
If you know anything about digital photography (which we pretend we do), you probably wouldn't even consider putting all those devices on a single table (and yet we did). We even went as far as publishing the results of our totally unprofessional battle of the digital snappers of all calibers.
To put this into a perspective, we were just impressed by the Samsung Pixon12 image quality when it arrived today and we unleashed it against that unusual crowd just for the fun of it. Don't worry, we'll apply our more serious and balanced photographic approach to shootouts in the final Pixon12 review that's hopefully due next week.
And until then, don't forget that we should be able to show you more of the non-camera-specific part of the Samsung Pixon12 in a second preview some time tomorrow.
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
If you've paid attention to all those images up there (and we bet you have), you should have noticed that the Samsung Pixon12 produces pleasant images with correct colors.
The perfect edge to edge sharpness shows the use of a high quality lens. The Pixon12 contrast is a little high, which usually makes the photos look more attractive, but the good news is that this rarely results in overblown highlights.
Overall the images processing is very good and rock solid with only a slight touch of oversharpening. As it seems Samsung R&D team have struck a nice balance of relatively low noise levels and well presented fine details.
We were also surprised to see that a 12 megapixel cameraphone can reach the detail resolved by a true DSLR (given the favorable light conditions, of course).
If you know anything about digital photography (which we pretend we do), you probably wouldn't even consider putting all those devices on a single table (and yet we did). We even went as far as publishing the results of our totally unprofessional battle of the digital snappers of all calibers.
To put this into a perspective, we were just impressed by the Samsung Pixon12 image quality when it arrived today and we unleashed it against that unusual crowd just for the fun of it. Don't worry, we'll apply our more serious and balanced photographic approach to shootouts in the final Pixon12 review that's hopefully due next week.
And until then, don't forget that we should be able to show you more of the non-camera-specific part of the Samsung Pixon12 in a second preview some time tomorrow.
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