Gadgets Mag

This is Samsung's promo video for the upcoming M8800 cellphone (aka Pixon) with 8-megapixel camera. In fact it looks very much like a compact camera from the rear, and its 3.2-inch screen bears the same TouchWiz interface as the Omnia. That screen is a 400 x 240 pixel touchscreen with touch keyboard and handwriting recognition, and the phone has AGPS, accelerometer and FM radio. Read on for hands-on photos and full specs.

• Quad-band GSM, tri-band HSDPA

• 107.9x54.6x14.9mm, 110 g

• 3.2-inch touch screen display (240 x 400 pixels)

• 8 megapixel camera, auto focus, face recognition with smile detection and blink detection, WDR (wide dynamic range), ASR (advanced shake reduction), GPS geotagging, ISO 1600, WVGA (720x480 pixels) and VGA (640 x 480 pixels) @30fps video recording

• Built-in GPS receiver

• Accelerometer

• DivX playback

• FM radio with RDS

• microSD card slot

• Bluetooth

• Landscape virtual QWERTY keyboard

• Handwriting recognition

• ShoZu integration - direct image and video upload

• Office document viewer

Samsung will be selling its flagship iPhone-killin’ device i900 Omnia in Russia as the Samsung WiTu. Aside from the name, specs wise the device remain the same, except the fact that the 8GB version of the device won’t be available — Russians will be able to grab the 16GB model, only. In addition, the Samsung WiTu will include widgets for quick access to Russian popular sites - Championat, Gistemeteo, Odnoklassniki.Ru, Yandeks.Probki, RBC-News, Afisha; and will also come pre-loaded with Anglo-Russian and Russian-English dictionaries ABBYY Lingvo.
Finally, to promote the new smartphone, Samsung is running a promotion from September 1st to November 30th giving WiTu buyer free access to the Internet from the Golden WiFi…