India makes for a considerably large market segment for handset manufacturers and Samsung could not miss the opportunity to launch a wide range of devices in this area. The flagship of Samsung's camera phones, namely Pixon M8800, has just been released in India and will be available for purchase starting this week.

Commenting on this week's launch, Sunil Dutt, country head, Samsung Telecom Division said, "Pixon is made for users who want to experience full multimedia entertainment on their mobile phone with the ease of a touch."

Fully equipped for multimedia purposes, Samsung Pixon joins the already launched devices such as Samsung Omnia (i900), Samsung TouchWiz (F480) and Samsung i780. The handset will be compatible with 3G networks (HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps), and it features a 3.2-inch WQVGA resistive touchscreen display (240 x 400 pixel resolution) and microSD card for memory expansion (up to 16GB).

The main attraction of the handset is obviously the 8 Megapixel camera (3264x2448 pixels) with autofocus, LED flash, geotagging, face, smile and blink detection, as well as image stabilization options. The camera can also record amazing WVGA movies at 30fps or QVGA at 120fps. There's also a secondary front camera for video-calls. Moreover, Pixon supports video player formats such as DivX, Xvid and MP4.


Other features of the phone include accelerometer for auto-rotate, advanced Music Player with SRS 3D surround sound, TV-out, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, microUSB 2.0 and a high-capacity 1000 mAh Li-Ion battery (up to 290h standby time and up to 3h and 40m talk time). The phone's TV output is compatible with both PAL and NTSC systems, a company statement said.

Samsung Pixon is available today for a price that has been tagged at Rupees 28,750.