Samsung launches the AMOLED 12M

By Damian Koh on 30 September 2009

The name probably doesn't tell you a lot, but according to Samsung, the AMOLED 12M is the world's first 12-megapixel camera-phone with built-in 3x optical zoom. There were other 12-megapixel handsets before this including the Pixon12 and Sony Ericsson Satio, but the big deal here is the optical zoom feature. This lets you zoom in on the subject without degrading picture quality as compared with digital zoom.

(Credit: Samsung)

Going by its 115.8x56.9x16.3mm dimensions, the handset is quite chunky and looks more like a digicam with phone functions. However, it redeems itself with a generous shutter button and a mode dial for switching between the various shooting modes.

The AMOLED 12M, which ships in Korea early October, will have a 3.3-inch 800x480-pixel AMOLED touchscreen, 1280x720-pixel video capture, touch autofocus tracking, T-DMB TV receiver and a pair of Xenon and LED flashes. There are also 4GB of on-board flash memory and a microSD card slot that supports up to 32GB. Unfortunately, the company doesn't have any plans to retail it outside of Korea yet.

(Credit: Samsung)

Topics: AMOLED, camera, megapixel, mobile phone, samsung, 12-megapixel, zoom, korea, handset, optical

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Comments (5)

  • danzo commented on 03/10/2009 17:50 Report abuse

    It looks good and i also think it beats the sony satio's camera just by the optical zoom!

  • Antinokia commented on 02/10/2009 21:27 Report abuse

    What a horrid looking phone, I think it is a bit excessive.

  • Trent commented on 02/10/2009 11:37 Report abuse

    how can you say that looks ugly..
    thats a fine piece of kit
    good on Samsung for it
    just having optical zoom beats the Satio in camera performance

  • Steve commented on 30/09/2009 14:34 Report abuse

    looks awesome! forget about what the first guy said. it looks cool and plenty of ppl would buy it :)

  • Andrew commented on 30/09/2009 12:50 Report abuse

    Okay that loooks UGLY. likr yeh well done for adding a zoom in the camera feature but no one would buy that srsly.

    compare that to the Sony Ericsson Satio nd this camera phone thingy gets PWNED...

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