Samsung u900, reveal thyself

Every carrier needs a massive, over-engineered camera-first, phone-second kind of device in its lineup; for Verizon, that had previously been the Samsung a990, and it's looking more and more like the u900 is going to make for a fabulous successor. The camera sensor itself doesn't grow at all -- 3 megapixels, to be exact -- but the autofocus is an important and increasingly ubiquitous feature in this range that makes a huge difference in picture quality. There's a flash too, naturally -- and the u900's screen rotates around to do an even better job of feigning a true point-and-shoot. Still no word on a release, but it sure looks ready to launch from all these press shots we've seen.

[Thanks, anonymous tipster]

Samsung u900, reveal thyself

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 4th 2007 11:36AM]

The a990 swiveled the same way.

[Chris Ziegler Posted Nov 4th 2007 12:59PM]

Ah ha! Indeed it did. Thanks for the correction.

Chris

[Mark Larson Posted Nov 5th 2007 12:14PM]

The a990 also has autofocus I believe. The only thing this is missing is a real flash.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 4th 2007 11:38AM]

Wow, it looks more and more like a camera and less like a phone. I wonder if it still has the cell-phone-camera-lag that so many other camera phone suffer from.

Nothing I hate more than trying to take a picture and having to wait a good 2 seconds after i shoot the pic to it to take. Let alone the time it takes for the phone to be 'ready' again....

[derX Posted Nov 4th 2007 1:40PM]

What else can I say, VZW is really improving its lineup. Now, if only they would launch some of them....

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 4th 2007 2:45PM]

this phone looks awesome!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 4th 2007 3:28PM]

Is this the "FlipShot?"

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 4th 2007 5:50PM]

Yes it is.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 4th 2007 4:07PM]

it's very sharp 903-esque, with the swivelling screen. i'm surprised verizon would get such a phone...looks quite promising.

[montusama Posted Nov 4th 2007 4:25PM]

Closer to my phone!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 4th 2007 10:37PM]

The last release spreadsheet showed a November 15 release date, ahead of the Voyager and Venus. I'm waiting this one out.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 5th 2007 12:29PM]

its aggrevating that i cant seem to find any more dirt on this phone than it will be mobile email capable 11-21-07 so... in theory, it will be out soon.

im all kinds of excited, as this is the phone im getting as my concession line that we just launched in the NE.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 6th 2007 2:14AM]

I have an A990, and while the hardware is good, the usability is not. The only thing you can do in landscape mode is take the pictures/video. You can't review photos in landscape mode, or do anything else until you go back to portrait mode (thus squishing landscape-oriented photos & video - ugh!). Hopefully they've got that straightened out, or maybe Android will do that for them next year. Either that or wait for T-Mobile to go 3G.