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Overview
The M8800 Pixon is the latest big-touchscreen, big-megapixel camera phone from Samsung. Using a tweaked TouchWiz operating system previously seen on the Samsung Tocco, the M8800 may not have smartphone credentials but it remains easy to use, finger friendly and suitably powerful. All this would mean little if the Pixon didn't have the features, however this phone manages to pack everything from SRS Virtual Surround Sound to GPS in!
Features at a Glance.
- Very capable 8 megapixel camera lens mounted on the rear of the case.
- Make your pictures look their best with software tweaks such as face and smile detection, plus shake reduction.
- Assisted GPS offers geo-tagging of your pictures too.
- The Pixon is a 3G handset with HSDPA support.
Why You Should By the Pixon
The Pixon sports a beautiful 3.2" touchscreen with a resolution of 240x320 and the ability to display 256,000 colours, it's a resistive item so Samsung have included a stylus in the box to assist, however this is attached to a lanyard rather than hiding away in its own little slot on the casing, Not to worry though, as the screen is nicely responsive and the TouchWiz system provides sensibly sized options for easy finger pressing.
Of course, the standout feature of the Pixon is the excellent 8 megapixel camera. The lens is housed inside a raised circular section on the rear panel and has the usual flash, autofocus and video shooting (at a healthy 30fps WVGA) capabilities. To reinforce its camera-first, phone-second reputation, the Pixon has many features found on a regular point-and-shoot camera such as auto-panorama, face/smile and blink detection and an advanced shake reduction setting. All this adds up to the Pixon taking pictures filled with colour and detail, with a sharpness unaffected by over-zealous in-camera software enhancements.
The media side of the Pixon is also very impressive. The wide screen lends itself perfectly to playing videos and the onboard player is set up to play most of the popular file types including DivX, XviD, H.264 and MP4. The music player has the same level of versatility and like may other of the Pixon's special features can be accessed by one of the clever widgets which are dragged from the sidebar on to the main home screen, making it unnecessary to dig about inside the menu system. A 3.5mm jack plug adaptor, TV-out and the unusual virtual surround sound cement the Pixon's claim to being a full-on mobile media powerhouse.
Rounding out the feature set on the Pixon is the Assisted GPS receiver, MicroSD card slot for a memory increase, an accelerometer which amongst other things, makes viewing your photo album a lot more fun than usual and an FM RDS radio. The Pixon's 3G HSDPA connection returns excellent data speeds, however the lack of Wi-Fi is a shame.
Summary of the Samsung M8800 Pixon.
Supposedly the little brother of the Samsung INNOV8, the Pixon more than holds it own in the range thanks to brilliant music and video, excellent build quality mixing metal and plastic, the responsive and innovative TouchWiz and of course, the mighty 8 megapixel camera. The M8800 Pixon is another great high-tech media mobile from Samsung.
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