Samsung's 12 megapixel M8910 Pixon12 cellphone tries to make your camera obsolete

Yes, folks, that day you've been so eagerly awaiting is nearly here. Soon you won't have to suffer the agony of pixel envy on your cellphones thanks to Samsung's M8910 Pixon12 and its whopping 12 megapixel sensor, capturing light through a 28mm wide-angle lens like that in the Nokia N86 (which has a miserly eight megapixels on tap). Sammy's handset has been put through its paces ahead of release, stacked up against the likes of a Canon A620 and a 350D SLR. The phone does quite well, producing images as good or better than its compact competition, but we're not quite sure we agree with the assessment that it "can reach the detail resolved by a true DSLR" -- at least, not in this batch of images. We want to believe, though, we really do; those SLRs are heavy, and we're not a particularly strong bunch.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 26th 2009 7:08AM]

AWS 3G like the Memoir please?

I am not too fond of the resistive Touch-Wiz interface, though. maybe change that?

[aoi tsuki Posted Jun 26th 2009 3:56PM]

Any comparison of a cameraphone's image qualty to that of a DSLR's should immediately be thrown out. Not only do DSLRs have superior and larger sensors, they have a lot more latitude for all types of post processing -- color, exposure, contrast, sharpening, etc. Take the comparison shots into your favorite image editor and slowly adjust things like contrast or color you'll see how the Samsung images degrade much faster to the two Canons with larger (and better quality i'd assume) sensors.

Since this was a quick and dirty comparison, i won't bother to mention how uneven the lenses in the cameras are, or how there's no mention of camera settings (i assume they're all auto), or the complete lack of shots that truly test these devices, namely low light shots.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 2nd 2009 7:17AM]

you dont like resistive?? the 5800 is awful, but the n97 screen is same tech, but they made it a lot tougher and better...

you can change touchwiz to 'finger input' to get the nokia type homescreen... :)