Samsung Introduces 5-Megapixel Camera Phone
October 22, 2004
Seoul, Korea - Samsung Electronics has unveiled a mobile phone (model: SCH-S250) equipped with a five-megapixel camera and video recording capabilities.
The CCD (charge-coupled device) camera and high-sensitivity flash allow the user to take the same quality pictures one gets from a top-end digital camera, the manufacturer describes. With its 92MB of onboard memory , the S250 can store up to 100 minutes of video (320x240), and a 32MB auxiliary memory is included as a standard feature.
Shutter speeds are as fast as 1/1,000 th of a second, and close-up capabilities allow the user to shoot subjects as close as 10 cm. It also features a micro lens module, one-twentieth the size of ordinary digital camera lenses, developed in collaboration with Asahi Pentax.
The S250 can be connected to a TV to display video during shooting or to show footage that has already been recorded in the mobile phone.
The camera phone is the first cell phone to have TFT-LCD, which can display 16 million different colors, it can express colors 60 times more accurately than can existing camera phones. The 5-megapixel phone also features an MP3 player.
The SCH-S250 will be available in the Korean market this October.
For more information, visit
www.samsung.com
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