In an blog entry back in January, “Digital Convergence I pointed out some of the trends of converging the functionalities of different technologies into the same digital device.
Well today Samsung has done it also. The maker of various digital devices from LCD TV to mobile phone, cameras to rice cookers, has launched their “SCH-V770” CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) mobile phone with technical specs jealous by most digital camera manufactures at this physical size and (expected) price point.
When I start listing the features you will wonder whether I am describing a digital still camera or a mobile phone, but in this case the answer is both.
The new “SCH-V770” comes with:
- 1/1.8 inch CCD image sensor
- digital still camera resolution of 7 megapixels
- 3x optical / 5x digital zoom
- auto focus
- flash
- focal length off 7.8 to 23.4 mm
- manual focus
- shutter speed from 15 seconds to 1/2000th of a second
- record video at 15 – 30 frames a second
- 2″ QVGA TFD LCD display that is capable of 16 millions of colours
- internal memory of 32MB
- MMC micro media card slot
- direct connection to a TV for playback of digital images and videos
My readers may notice some obvious omissions for a mobile phone specifications above, these are the number of bands and the typical CDMA functions. All the articles about this phones had been focused on the digital camera features and not the mobile phone part of this device. The only information I have is that it does not support any of the GMS bands in the world.
As most people find that 4 – 5 megapixels is enough for a digital phone, one begs the question if Samsung, LG and the alike have their focus on the appropriate features of their mobile phones.
I guess the consumer will be the final judge when this and other phones become available later this year.
