Samsung Producing 5 Megapixel Camera Phone

Shippy writes "Straight from Yahoo News on the other side of the pond comes a story about Samsung's latest creation: a five-megapixel camera phone. This is pretty cool considering it's a pretty big jump from the camera phones that are currently available (many max out around 1.5 megapixels). It's expected to be available by the end of the year, but only in South Korea. I doubt it'll take long for a domestic carrier to pick up on this hot new toy." Other readers submitted a closeup picture and the company press release.

Comments

camera-phone or phone-camera?

[jstave]

Its not necessarily bad, but the size difference between this product and the current camera-phones makes it more like a camera that one can make phonecalls from rather than a phone that takes pictures.

Mega pixels don't count.

[caluml]

It doesn't matter how many billion mega-pixels there are if you're shooting through a dirty, smudged, tiny piece of glass.
I opted for a lower megapixel (6.4) SLR rather than a higher MP compact camera, so that I could experiment with filters, and different lenses. I'm not saying that my pics are any better, mind you.