Missed this one earlier this week – Samsung announced a new 8 megapixel touch-screen handset called the Samsung Pixon. Due in October, the Pixon has a 3.2 inch full touch-screen display with advanced digital photography features such as:

• 16x digital zoom
• dual power LED flash
• Advanced Shake Reduction
• Wide Dynamic Rage
• Face Detection, Smile Shot, Face Link technologies
• Geo-tagging, Auto Panorama Shot, and Photo Memo
• Photo Browser included

Other major features of the Pixon handset include:

• GSM/GPRS/EDGE quad band support
• HSDPA 7.2 Mbps support
• 3.2 inch 240 x 400 262K WQVGA TFT LCD display
• Built-in Accelerometer
• Video recording and playback with support for MPEG4, WMV, DivX, XviD
• SRS Virtual 5.1 channel support
• Music player with support for MP3, AAC, e-AAC, e-AAC+, WMA
• FM Radio with RDS
• Digital Natural Sound engine
• Bluetooth 2.0
• 200 MB internal memory
• microSD slot
• Measures 107.9 x 54.6 x 13.8 mm and weighs 121 grams

The Samsung Pixon will be available first in France followed by other European and Asian countries.

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