After a long time of only rumors making the rounds on the Internet, Samsung's M8800 was finally released. Although everybody expected it to be named Bresson, it seems that the South Korean group has had a change of heart, and went for the official dubbing of Pixon. While Bresson would have been used as a homage to the French photographer, Pixon comes with a more resonant signification, especially since the M8800 has an 8 megapixel camera (and the Pixel-Pixon correlation becomes obvious).

As it happens, this is not all the information we have on the device – a Russian team previewed the handheld, and provided some nice images along the way. Also, we have managed to get our hands on the specs, and they are impressive.

Samsung M8800 Pixon features Quad-band GSM, tri-band HSDPA , a 3.2-inch touchscreen display (240 x 400 pixels), GPS receiver, accelerometer, landscape virtual QWERTY keyboard, handwriting recognition, office document viewer, DivX playback, FM radio with RDS, microSD card slot, Bluetooth and ShoZu integration (for direct image and video upload). Its exact dimensions are 107.9 x 54.6 x 14.9 mm, at a weight of 110 g.

However, the most expected feature is, of course, the 8 megapixel camera that includes auto focus, face recognition with smile and blink detection, WDR (wide dynamic range), ASR (advanced shake reduction), GPS geotagging, ISO 1600, WVGA (720 x 480 pixels) and VGA (640 x 480 pixels) at 30fps video recording. The lack of Wi-Fi might be considered a downside, though. If we think about it, this is actually the main thing that makes the difference between the Samsung Pixon and the LG Renoir.

Given all these impressive specs, now we can only hope that the phone hits stores soon, because there are many people out there who have long expected this moment. Unfortunately, no information regarding pricing is available but, were we to look at Samsung Inno8 for comparisons, the price tag for Samsung Pixon should be set somewhere in the $800-900 range (give or take some), without a contract.