by CIO Staff

Samsung Unveils 10-Megapixel Camera Phone

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Oct 11, 20062 mins
Consumer Electronics

Samsung Electronics will put a 10-megapixel camera phone on the market in South Korea shortly. The phone was first shown at the Cebit exhibition in Germany in March this year and was originally due on the market in the second quarter.

Samsung SCH-B600
Samsung SCH-B600

Like some of the company’s previous phones, the SCH-B600 is styled to look like a conventional digital still camera from one side and a bar-type cell phone from the other side. It has a 3X optical zoom lens like those typically found in digital still cameras, auto focus, manual focus, continuous and time-delay picture taking and a flash.

Other features include a tuner for South Korea’s TU Media satellite multimedia service, Bluetooth and MP3 player, business card reader and TV-output.

It will cost 900,000 won (US$950) in South Korea, and Samsung said it won’t be selling it in other markets.

The phone is the latest in a line of high-megapixel camera phones from Samsung. The company launched a 5-megapixel camera phone in October 2004, a 7-megapixel phone in July 2005 and an 8-megapixel model in November last year.

-Martyn Williams, IDG News Service (Tokyo Bureau)

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