Samsung M8800 Pixon can make me blush
The Samsung M8800 could be said to be a camera with a phone attached — a growing trend — rather than a mobile phone with a camera. But it has gone a step too far. The model I have seen is in pink. There are many things that a chap can do to keep his job. Carrying a pink mobile, no matter how desirable in other ways, is not one of them
Anxious inquiries to the Samsung people suggest that the M8800 Pixon will come in other colors rather than blush-making pink.
This camera tries to do it all. Just like a Swiss knife with a thingy on it for taking Scouts out of horse’s hooves or whatever.
It has excellent quality music entertainment with an MP3 music player, FM radio with RDS, a Surround Sound System and support for 8GB of memory. It could possibly even handle my son’s recent performance at the Festival Hall in London which included Stockhausen, Catenaires by Elliott Carter and Scriabin’s Sonata 7. If it can handle that little lot it can do anything.
However, the major selling point for the Samsung M8800 Pixon (any damn color but pink) has to be its 8 mega pixel autofocus camera with 16x digital zoom, wide dynamic range, advanced shake reduction, face, smile and blink detection, DVD quality video and integrated GPS with camera geo-tagging. Note the DVD quality video which is amazing.
In a sense I should go through that point by point but life is too short. There is a good YouTube of it being unboxed which helps.
The good point is the integrated GPS which means all your shots will have a tag saying where they were taken. The bad point is the 16x digital zoom which will probably turn out to be a snare and a delusion and you would be better off ignoring it. Digital zoom equals marketing point. Optical zoom equals real advantage.
But it also has a 3.2 inch touchscreen with built-in accelerometer sensor for auto rotation, TV Output functionality, Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP stereo support, HSDPA High Speed Data, EDGE data technology, video calling, email, document viewer and integrated handsfree.
Checked to see if it spoke Welsh as well but that is missing. Maybe in a later model.
In fact, apart from the shame-making color of the one model seen , this is one of the main directions we are heading. The digital phone that will take seriously excellent pictures and play good music and very possibly take in the washing when it starts raining.
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January 18th, 2009
Pink not desirable for keeping your job? Well, I guess it depends on where you work.
January 18th, 2009
Quite so. This office is officially anti-pink underwear and anti-pink mobile phones. Indeed, come to think of it the office is anti-pink altogether. Except under unrevealed circumstances.
January 22nd, 2009
Hi Can anyone tell when the pink pixon is being launched in the UK?
February 9th, 2009
Hey, the pink is out now with Orange, just become available and not sure that any other network has it at the moment. In response to Gareth’s message, the phone was out in black before pink so maybe that is more “office friendly”!