Samsung M8910 Pixon12 Review By Tech Digit

Aug 16, 2009 by Tech-Digit

Who needs a digital camera when you can have a 12megapixel auto-focus camera phone equipped with Power LED and xenon flash plus a 28mm wide angle lens? Did I happen to mention that it is a Touchscreen mobile phone?

Samsung took a big step when they released their newest high-end mobile creation, Samsung M8910 Pixon12. It is the first 12 megapixel camera phone available for public purchase. Moreover, Samsung promises that this is the Ultimate all-in-one mobile device that will keep you connected and organized without holding back the fun.

Samsung M8910 Pixon12 fronts a revolutionary 3.1 inches black glass, resistive AMOLED touchscreen with 480×800 pixels and 16M colors. It comes with the latest and newest TouchWiz UI 2.0, which is highly responsive. Below the screen are three hardware controls, the call and end key and the menu button in the center. The left side of the phone hosts the memory card slot and the Lock (hardware) key. While the volume rocker, camera launcher and shutter keys are all together on the right side of the Pixon12. On the top part is the protected microUSB port use as charger and headset slot. Measuring 108 x 53 x 13.8 mm, the Pixon12 fits the hand perfectly and just weighting 120g, it is indeed a convenient and handy camera phone. This comes in sleek black matte finished to avoid finger printing plus it has a chrome lining on the side which makes it quite sophisticated.

The Samsung M8910 Pixon12 main menu features sweep scroll control which displays 3D view of its multi tasking applications. Of course it has multimedia features and Samsung rocks these features a little bit. The music player has a new “5.1 ch” button, which emulate the best “5.1 ch” sound on normal stereo headset. Its FM radio features RDS, which display the station name in one row and additional information on the other. Plus station frequencies are retuned automatically and it has music recognition called FindMusic, which is pretty much like TrackID. And its new video player supports DivX and XviD, meaning you don’t need to convert video format anymore. Web browsing is guaranteed the fastest, with its HSDPA speed of 7.2Mbps and gives you a fullscreen view mode. It is also WLan enabled and has a WiFi manager that makes accessing your list easy. Plus its GPS navigation comes preinstalled with a full-fledged SatNav solution.

Of course it has ordinary phone features like Bluetooth, Organizer and Calendar, secondary videocall camera and Java games. It also comes with new widgets like the AccuWeather, Quit Smoking and GoDiet. Plus it has 150 Mb of internal memory that you can expand for up to 16Gb with a micro SD card.

Samsung M8910 Pixon12 features are highly impressive especially its 12 megapixel camera that produces top caliber images. But cutting edge technology doesn’t come cheap, so expect a high price tag on this one.