Samsung SCH-S250: World's First 5-Megapixel Camera Phone

Samsung SCH-S250 is the world's first mobile phone that comes with a 5-megapixel CCD camera. Together with high-sensitivity flash, the SCH-S250 allows users to take the same quality pictures one gets from a top-end digital camera. Similar to Samsung's premium grade camera phones, the S250 can also function as a camcorder





The 92MB onboard memory can store up to 100 minutes of video (320x240), and a 32MB auxiliary memory is included as a standard feature. The shutter speed is as fast as 1/1,000 th of a second, allowing the user to film beautiful landscapes as well as subjects as close as 10 cm. The S250 can be connected to a TV to display video during shooting or to show footage that has already been recorded in the mobile phone.

The S250 comes with a unique "stretch" design, reminiscent of the futuristic phones seen in the movie The Matrix. The high-quality camera lens and LCD remain covered and protected when the phone is closed, and when it is stretched open, the product has the feel of a regular digital camera.

The S250 boasts a QVGA TFD-LCD (Thin Film Diode-Liquid Crystal Display) that has previously been adapted only for top-end TVs and desktop monitors. The display can reproduce 16 million colors, over 60 times the color compared to existing mobile phone displays, all the hues found in nature; thus, QVGA resolution has been referred to as "true color."

The SCH-S250 SPECIFICATIONS:

Dimension 115 x 49.5 x 18.5mm
Weight 116g
Band cdma2000 1x
Display 2.0-inch 16Million-Color QVGA TFD LCD (240x320)
Camera 5-megapixel CCD Camera
Ringtones 64 Polyphonic Sound
Design Sophisticated stretch style phone
Memory 32MB External memory(RS-MMC)
Video Recording 100 minutes
Functionality - Supports Mobile Banking Service/MP3/ TV-OUT/ IrDAl
- Supports TTS (Text to Speech) function
- 3D Games & Sounds

Source: press release

See also:

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• Samsung SGH-X460C: Oval Shaped Mobile Phone


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