Samsung has announced the M8800 'Pixon', their second forway into the 8-megapixel touchscreen mobile phone market and a potential challenger for the LG KC780. The M8800 features 3.2-inch 400 x 240 pixel touchscreen display the same TouchWiz interface as the Omnia and F480 Tocco. As expected, the device has full quad-band GSM, tri-band HSDPA and sizes up at 107.9 x 54.6 x 14.9mm, but weighs just 0.24 pounds. Camera features include auto-focus with face recognition, smile detection and blink detection, WDR (wide dynamic range), ASR (advanced shake reduction) and GPS geotagging. Image specifications include ISO 1600, WVGA at 720 x 480 pixels and VGA at 640 x 480 pixels, plus 30fps video recording, DivX playback compatibility and integration with ShoZu. Mobile mapping services can be accessed via the built-in GPS receiver, there's a microSD card slot for memory upgrades and character input is via the landscape virtual QWERTY keyboard or by handwriting recognition. Bonus features include a weather app and Google widgets, an acceleromter and Bluetooth as standard, but no WiFi.

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