p2p news / p2pnet: If you have a Samsung SPH-V8200, you got phone.

It’s in effect an mp3 mobile phone able to store up to 1,000 music files and cover two different video formats, and which is also an eight-megapixel camera.

Or, rather, it will be, this month, or maybe next month, said Samsung president Lee Ki-tae when the phone was "unexpectedly shown to global mobile analysts" at an investor relations session in Seoul, last week.

And, "On top of the highest-resolution camera module, the SPH-V8200 is equipped with a 16-million-color thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) monitor," continues the Korea Times. "The model will also feature such digital camera-like functions as a 4X digital zoom and auto focus. It also automatically prevents hand movements from spoiling picture quality."

There are also a seven and five megapixel models, the story says, going on, "The 8-megapixel camera phone will sell at higher than 1 million won (about $950), a price local analysts predict is implausible for a cell phone. Samsung has tantalized observers with its previous versions as it retailed the 5-megapixel camera phone at 980,000 won and the 7-megapixel model at 990,000 won."

Lee also showed off the the SPH-B4100, a dual digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) TV phone able to feature both satellite-based DMB and terrestrial signal-enabled DMB with a single terminal.

With a a 2.2-inch monitor that can be swiveled, it’ll be available in Korea next montn, "in time with the start of the terrestrial DMB service," says the Korea Times.

Satellite DMB was commercially launched in Korea in this July and now sports 11 payable video channels and 26 audio broadcasts with a half dozen phones available and terrestrial DMB services, which will offer six free video broadcasts and about 20 audio channels to end users, will debut next month by the nation’s major TV stations, says the story.

Not only but also, Lee unveiled the SGH-I300, which can store up to 1,000 music files or a couple of high-definition movie files. Using Microsoft Windows mobile operating system it plays music while the main power for mobile telephony services is turned off.

"Even more stunning is that Samsung is developing a phone with an internal hard disk drive (HDD) with a 10 GB storage capacity that can carry more than 3,000 music files or several HD movie clips," says the Korea Times, which has Lee adding,:

"The development of a 10GB HDD phone is now underway. It will provide much bigger storage capability than iPod Nano. In addition, it will sport a gyro sensor that will automatically shield data in case the phone is thrown away."

(Thanks, David)

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See:-
Korea Times – Snazzy Phones Keep Emerging in Korea, November 7, 2005

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