Video Review: Samsung G800

Our tech savvy girl Susi from Shiny Media recently had her say on the auto focusing 5Mpx - 3x optical zoom powered HSDPA Samsung G800 with xenon flash and face detection (quite unusual for mobile phones outside Japan), document viewers, 2.4" screen, microSD slot and FM radio multimedia phone.

Samsung G800 may not be the first camera phone that had been widely available across the globe (in G800's case - to be, not just in Japan and Korea) to feature an optical zooming lens like Nokia N93 which was announced around April last year, nevertheless, Samsung G800 offers a quite impressing set of functions an advanced user is craving for these days.. Here's the video guys!

Samsung G800 Hands-On Video

Here's the best equipped (not really meant for the Korean market) Samsung mobile phone to date. Featuring a CMOS 5Mpx auto-focus camera with xenon flash and 3X optical zoom. By the way, Samsung has finally made G800 official just yesterday.



Specifications:

• WDR (Wide Dynamic Range)
• Face Detection
• Digital Image Stabilizer
• High ISO (High Sensitivity up to 800)
• Lens Cover
• Red Eye Reduction
• Panorama shot
• Multi-shot
• Macro shot
• Video Editor
• HSDPA up to 7.2 Mbps
• 262K QVGA TFT LCD (2.4")
• MP3/AAC/AAC+/AAC++/WMA player
• OMA 2.0/WMDRM with MTP support
• FM radio with RDS
• ICEpower amplifier by Bang&Olufsen ICEpower
• Music Library
• Shozu mobile blog client
• Internet Browser
• microSD slot
• Multi-format Audio & Video
• Offline Mode
• Bluetooth v2.0 / USB 2.0
• PictBridge
• Yahoo / Google Search
• Dimensions: 101.5 x 52 x 18.8 mm

"The Samsung G800 is the answer for customers needs to have the perfect digital camera and the perfect multimedia mobile combined into one single device. For example, optical zoom is very common in most digital cameras, but the Samsung G800 is the first and only 5 megapixel camera phone to have this capability. Features such as face detection, and Wide Dynamic Range (WDR), which are very up-to-date features even in todays digital cameras, are also equipped in the new G800."


Samsung G800 will be available in some European countries next month, November. Sadly, price is yet to be known..

Official Pictures of Samsung G800

Samsung has recently published the official product images of their 5Mpx marvel G800. Look at how the sliding mechanism on the camera lens looks like, it kinda resembles the ones installed on a real digicam too like Sony Ericsson K850! Nokia N82 where are you anyway?! I'm sure there will be a very tough battle among the 5Mpx camera phones in December!

Samsung G800 Live Pics

More pics of Samsung G800. This mega slider packs in a 5Mpx auto focus camera with xenon flash plus 3X optical zoom! Click here to know more about Samsung G800

Samsung G800 5Mpx - Xenon Flash & 3X Optical Zoom!?

Wow! This is really interesting, right after G600's announcement comes the big daddy - G800! This is not officially announced by Samsung yet but rumors said that this model is due early 2008 next year. G800 measures 103 x 51 x 16.8mm and features a 2.4" QVGA OLED display, microSD slot, bluetooth 2.0 (with A2DP I assume), stereo speakers, either HSDPA or 3G support plus EDGE as well as camera centric features such as camera OSD (On-Screen Display) multi, mosaic, panorama, best pic (like Cybershot's?! WTH!), macro shot, video stabilizer effect, suppression, "red eye", xenon flash and an amazing 3x optical zooming lens.

I just can't imagine what Nokia has in store for us. I wonder when will be the successor of N93i be announced? Conversely, I can picture a serious fight of future imaging kings between the rumored N82, SE K850 and Samsung G800 in the last quarter this year!

One thing is for sure, at the end we consumers will ultimately benefit from all of these toughening competition, giving us highly feature-packed mobile phones from one to another!