Samsung's 12 megapixel M8910 Pixon12 cellphone tries to make your camera obsolete

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Yes, folks, that day you've been so eagerly awaiting is nearly
here. Soon you won't have to suffer the agony of pixel envy on your
cellphones thanks to Samsung's M8910 Pixon12 and its whopping 12
megapixel sensor, capturing light through a 28mm wide-angle lens
like that in the Nokia N86 (which
has a miserly eight megapixels on tap). Sammy's handset has been
put through its paces ahead of release, stacked up against the
likes of a Canon
A620 and a
350D SLR. The phone does quite well, producing images as good
or better than its compact competition, but we're not quite sure we
agree with the assessment that it "can reach the detail resolved by
a true DSLR" -- at least, not in this batch of images. We want to
believe, though, we really do; those SLRs are heavy, and we're not
a particularly strong bunch.

Samsung Blue Earth finally gets a hands-on treatment

We've been hearing about the samsung Blue earth -- an eco-phone, if you will -- since way back at MWC. Now CNET's finally gotten its hands on one at CommunicAsia in Singapore, and we have to say that we're pretty intrigued with what we're seeing. The back of the phone is covered with a solar panel, and samsung says that one hour of sunning time for the mobile equals about 10 minutes of talk time. The handset also has a built-in pedometer to count steps for the Eco Walk carbon footprint app -- certainly something prospective buyers of the Blue Earth might be interested in. We still don't know full specs, pricing or availability for the phone, but we'll let you know when we do. Hit the read link for a video.

• Samsung Omnia II now official: AMOLED touchscreen with TouchWiz 2.0 destined for Verizon
• Samsung Jet packs an 800MHz processor, AMOLED display, featurephone OS

Samsung Blue Earth finally gets a hands-on treatment

We've been hearing about the samsung Blue Earth -- an eco-phone, if you will -- since way back at MWC. Now CNET's finally gotten its hands on one at CommunicAsia in Singapore, and we have to say that we're pretty intrigued with what we're seeing. The back of the phone is covered with a solar panel, and samsung says that one hour of sunning time for the mobile equals about 10 minutes of talk time. The handset also has a built-in pedometer to count steps for the Eco Walk carbon footprint app -- certainly something prospective buyers of the Blue Earth might be interested in. We still don't know full specs, pricing or availability for the phone, but we'll let you know when we do. Hit the read link for a video.

• Samsung Omnia II now official: AMOLED touchscreen with TouchWiz 2.0 destined for Verizon
• Samsung Jet packs an 800MHz processor, AMOLED display, featurephone OS

Samsung Jet packs an 800MHz processor, AMOLED display, featurephone OS

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Samsung's busy launching a bunch of handsets across even more
timezones right now, and in addition to all the
Omnia updates, there's also the Jet, which is an interesting
hybrid: it's got an 800MHz processor, five megapixel camera,
3.1-inch AMOLED screen, WebKit-based Dolfin browser and a host of
media features including DivX support, but it's running TouchWiz
2.0, so it's not a proper smartphone. Yeah, it's weird, but we're
sort of into it -- we'll see what's it's like in person.

Samsung Omnia II now official: AMOLED touchscreen with TouchWiz 2.0 destined for Verizon

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Although not exactly the best kept secret (we first caught wind
last week), Samsung's Verizon-bound omnia II / I8000 is now one
hundred percent official, along with
even more official US confirmations for the Omnia Pro B760
(Louvre) slider, Omnia Pro B7320 candybar, and the
Omnia Lite B7300. Specs for the Omnia II are just a little
different than what we previously heard: 3.7-inch AMOLED resistive
touchscreen with WVGA (480 x 800) resolution, EVDO Rev A, 5
megapixel camera, 720 x 480 at 30fps video recording, 2GB to 16GB
internal storage with microSD expansion slot, Bluetooth 2.0, WiFi,
AGPS, and TouchWiz 2.0 UI. As for the Lite, we're looking at HSDPA,
WiFi, 3 megapixel camera, AGPS, and just as the name suggests, a
good likelihood it'll be overshadowed by its more feature-rich
brother.



Update: We can't say it's unexpected, but just to
be clear, Omnia II buyers shouldn't worry about living in the
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Tech reports its WinMo 6.1 underbelly will be later
upgradeable to 6.5.

• Samsung's Omnia family hands-on, Samsung Jet and Pixon 12 come along for the ride

Samsung's Omnia family hands-on, Samsung Jet and Pixon 12 come along for the ride

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Samsung just pulled a bit of a "Samsung" and completely blew out
its Omnia lineup. We just got some face time with the new
Omnia II,
Omnia Pro,
Omnia Lite and the
Omnia-inspired Jet, along with the
Pixon 12 -- which runs the same in-house Samsung OS as the Jet,
but packs a 12 megapixel camera. It's hard not to notice the
stunning AMOLED screens on these phones, especially up against the
dull-by-comparison Omnia Lite with its petty LCD. Unfortunately,
while the build quality is good and the specs are certainly all
there, all the phones were fairly slow in regular operation. The
Jet and Pixon were passable (and the Jet certainly ought to be,
with an 800MHz "application processor"), but we can't imagine
anybody finding any pleasure in the molasses Windows Mobile 6.1
experiences on the Omnia trio. The Jet has a fun little 3D UI
"cube" gimmick, which involves the pointless spinning of a cube to
access different media apps, but most of what we saw was pretty
standard TouchWiz. We did like the speed of Pixon's camera, which
does a Pre-style trick of sending photo processing duties to the
background so you can snap another photo with little delay in
between -- it's also pretty good at auto focus and color accuracy
for a phone, but we won't be trading in our regular point and shoot
in the near term. None of the phones we looked at had network
access, so we weren't able to test out the WebKit browsers, but it
sounds like a major win for the Jet and Pixon. Let's just work on
that Omnia responsiveness a bit, yeah Samsung? Perhaps Windows
Mobile 6.5 (the Omnia II and Omnia Pro are 6.5-ready) will
help.