It wasn’t that many years ago that a 10 megapixel digital camera would have been unheard of, even in professional photography circles.  And even two years ago a state-of-the-art camera phone would have made do with a meager 1.5 or 2 megapixel digital camera.

But times change and technology marches on; Samsung has just released the world’s first 10 megapixel camera phone, the SCH-B600. The new camera phone will be launched first in the Korean market, but is expected to begin appearing in North America within the next six months.

It’s kind of fitting that Samsung should be the company to launch the first 10 megapixel camera phone; the company was responsible for launching the first camera phone back in 2000.  Besides an integrated 10 megapixel digital camera, the new SCH-B600 is thinner and lighter than its predecessors, and integrates mobile TV capability.

You also get all of the sophisticated digital camera functions you would expect, including a 3x optical zoom, a 5x digital zoom, autofocus, and an onboard flash unit.  The SCH-B600 also includes white balance, manual focus and is Bluetooth enabled, allowing users to send photos wirelessly to printers, other mobile phones or Bluetooth devices.

And course, like every new mobile phone released these days, the B600 includes a top-notch MP3 player, as well as a variety of state-of-the-art bells and whistles.  Retail price for the SCH-B600 is expected to come in at about $900 US, making it either a fairly expensive cell phone, or a very reasonably priced 10 megapixel camera.

In fact, with so much camera technology included in the new 10 megapixel camera phone, you have to wonder if the SCH-B600 is actually a phone with a built-in camera, or a high quality camera that just happens to include a phone? Either way–itís pretty sharp.

Source:  ultimate mobile phones

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