Camera phone

Samsung has always been breaking records these days. This time it looks like they’ll be coming out with a 12 megapixel camera phone at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Spain this February. As if it wasn’t enough, it may be that Samsung will also unveil an 8 megapixel camera phone with a 3x optical zoom.

All this talk about 8 and 12 megapixel resolutions makes me think I’m talking about plain vanilla digital cameras. Now if only Samsung would put all those DSLR firmware functionalities on those cell phones — that would really be a great unveiling. Do you agree? In the mean time, you can just drool over the “photoshopped” photo of a 12-megapixel phone courtesy of Unwired.

I’ve been holding off on buying my next mobile phone for quite a while to be able to choose from the Nokia E71, the Apple iPhone 3G and the upcoming HTC Dream which has Google’s Android installed (been reading that it’s coming out on September 23 in the US).

First of all, I hope we can get some better photos of the HTC Dream — side by side with the Nokia E71 and the Apple iPhone it’s a goner!

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