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Touchscreen phones are nothing new, though they were a rage two years back when there were few touchscsreens available in the market. Today however, there are lots of touchscreen models available in the market and that too over a varied price range. You could get one for as low as 8k or go as high as say 40k. My experience with touchscreens is that none offers anything exhilarating under 25k, but Samsung proved me wrong with their latest offering.Yes, I am referring to the M8800 aka the Pixon, another 8 MP camera phone by Samsung after the Innov8 (reviewed in 2008). While Innov8's price was a bit on the higher-side, the Pixon offers high-end features coupled with amazing performance for just around the 25k mark.
Ergonomics and overall design of the phone is good; all controls are intuitively placed and fall right under the hand. Other than the dedicated call receive/end and menu buttons on the front, volume, gallery and shutter keys are placed on the right edge, while a hold key that locks the phone's display and a shortcut key for mini menu have been placed on the left. The center key under the display works as a back key and a press on the end call key takes you back to the main menu. - 3.2" 256K-color TFT LCD touchscreen display of WQVGA resolution
- 8 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash and lens protection
- Camera geo-tagging, auto-panorama shot, face, smile and blink detection, digital image stabilization
- WVGA video recording at 30fps
- Slimmest 8MP phone
- 3G with HSDPA support
- Quad-band GSM support
- GPS receiver
- microSD card slot
- DivX, XviD and MP4 video player
- SRS (Surround Sound System) Virtual 5.1CH
- TV out functionality
- FM radio with RDS
- Bluetooth and USB v2.0
- 200 MB internal memory
- Landscape on-screen virtual QWERTY keyboard
- Accelerometer sensor
- Multitasking
- Office document viewer
- ShoZu integration (direct image and video uploads)
Main disadvantages:
- No Wi-Fi connectivity
- No voice-guided GPS navigation
- Stylus as dongle only, no stylus compartment
- No smart dialing
The Pixon clearly belongs to one of the two schools of thought in the Samsung 5 to 8MP cameraphone sample. There the ironclad Soul-flavored devices rub shoulders with the huge touchscreens of the Tocco line.
The Pixon humbly gives the smart INNOV8 a bow of respect and suffices with topping the line of full-touch and multimedia gadgets. Now, given our admiration for the F480 Tocco, the Pixon can count on a fair and respectful welcome but that won't make us soft or too forgiving.
Those looking for a multimedia touchscreen phone, but don't need Wi-Fi connectivity can look at this. Else, at the same price, you can get the HTC Touch Diamond (powered by Windows Mobile 6.1), but it has a smaller screen and only a 3.2MP camera. Or you could also consider the Nokia 5800 Xpress Music for 19k MOP, which offers the same screen size, more connectivity features and runs the latest Symbian S60 v5 OS (although it only has a 3.2 MP camera).
Design and Build Quality:
The Samsung M8800 Pixon has a very nice and stylish design. It is officially the slimmest 8 MP camera phone available at a width of just 13.8 mm. The overall dimensions of 107.9 x 54.6 x 13.8 mm are very nice and ensure that the Samsung M8800 just 121 gms which is decent compared to the features it comes packed with. The full black body sports a clean and minimal design with just the huge screen in the front along with a few control buttons - Call, End and the earpiece, secondary cam and the ambient light sensor. The right side hosts the camera key, dedicated gallery key and the volume rocker. On the left, you find the hold key, shortcut menu key and the microSD card slot. The top features the connectivity port while the bottom sports the mouthpiece and the lanyard eyelet. On the back of the phone lies the star attraction - the 8 MP camera and the accompanying LED flash. The build quality of the M8800 is superb with the body made partly of metal and partly of plastic. The M8800 Pixon seems to be very durable and should easily last for more than a couple of years without any hiccups.
The Samsung Pixon will completely satisfy those who are tired of camera-phones which look like cameras but have only a passing resemblance to a camera’s functions.
Display:
The Samsung M8800 Pixon sports a 3.2? TFT touchscreen display which supports upto 262K colors and a WQVGA resolution of 240 x 400 pixels. The display quality is superb with great brightness and contrast levels. It produces vibrant images with rich colors. The sunlight legibility is also very nice. The touchscreen also performs upto expectations. It is very responsive and has superb sensitivity. The haptic feedback provided is good. The screen can also be calibrated to increase the accuracy.
User Interface:
The Samsung M8800 Pixon sports an improved version of the very famous TouchWiz UI earlier seen in the Samsung F480. The version in the M8800 Pixon is a very refined version with increased performance. It is fast and responsive, having cleared most of the problems that plagued the earlier version of TouchWiz. The UI on a whole is very intuitive and easy to use. It also supports multitasking wherein you can run many tasks simultaneously and switch between them. You can also customize your home screen with ‘widgets’.
The Samsung M8800 Pixon sports a range of connectivity features like GPRS Class 10, EDGE Class 10, 3G HSDPA 7.2 MBPS, USB v2.0 and Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP. It lacks Wi-Fi but that is understandable as it isn’t aimed at the business class.
The Pixon does its main job quite well - the call reception quality is great and the built in loudspeaker adequate for most instances. The volume is superb and the quality too. The Samsung M8800 Pixon is powered by a 1000 mAh Li ion battery which has a rated talk time of 3 hrs and 40 mins. It should easily last for about two days on a single charge with moderate usage.
1 comments:
nice phone i was always looking to buy one of these a great buy for me !good luck! =))=))
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