The best phone of the best phones

Available October 2009 5th Oct 2009

The Korean marketplace is often a good spot to looking for upcoming technologies, and the Samsung AMOLED 12M (or the SCH-W880) is a goodness example of this. It’s a 12 megapixel touchscreen device, following on from the likes of the Pixon 12 – but the AMOLED 12M adds some new and interesting features.

The main innovation here is the camera – the 12 megapixel whole has a 3X optical zoom and the camera lens pops out of the back of the AMOLED 12M when in manipulation. Optical soar is very rare in mobile phones, but it makes a huge difference to the earphone’s capabilities. Although most phones have digital zoom, this is only really a pixel resize which produces grainy results.

Added to this ar a exercise set of dedicated camera controls, again almost the same as you would find on a standalone digital camera. In fact, the AMOLED 12M looks so much like a digital photographic camera that it is hard to recognise it as a phone at all.

In summation, the camera comes with a Xenon and light-emitting diode flash bulb (why just have the one?), plus the same intelligent autofocus system as the Pixon 12 plus all the usual clever features that Samsung put into their cameraphones. The AMOLED 12M tin move from shot to shot in just two seconds, which is a lot faster than most similar handsets.

The video recording capture looks good too, with a whopping 1280 x 720 pixels at 30 frames per second capture pace. This is equivalent weight to the exhibit on a 720p HD television system exercise set, so it is much better than almost everything else on the market.

The large 3.3" 800 x 480 pixel touchscreen control panel uses Samsung’s AMOLED engineering, which gives a bright and open exhibit. Samsung ar proud of this engineering.. proud sufficiency to epithet this specific phone after it.

There’s no honorable mention of Global Positioning System on the AMOLED 12M which is odd, but the phone does face pack a T-DMB terrestrial digital TV receiver. The AMOLED 12M can also swordplay backrest a wide variety of multimedia including DivX and XviD movies plus all the usual formats. Internal memory board is a massive 4GB, and this tin be expanded using microSD card game up to 32GB.

The Samsung AMOLED 12M is a tri-band GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900 phone with WCDMA 2100 documentation. Although this theoretically means that the SCH-W880 will work in Europe, the French telephone is departure to the Korean marketplace only. However, it is likely that we will see this photographic camera unit in other handsets soon.

Samsung say that the AMOLED 12M should be available in Korean Peninsula from early Oct.

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