Samsung M8800 Pixon Review

By Author: Jerry Smith
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The mobile phone market moves at such a pace that new innovations are introduced with each fresh handset, and the Samsung M8800 Pixon is the latest to incorporate what is seen as the holy grail of camera's - an eight mega-pixel device. It has a lot to live up to given the beauty and sophistication of the rival LG Renoir KC910 and others, but Samsung are no strangers to such competition.

The M8800 Pixon is a solid handset which weights at just 121 grams & measures approximately 108mm long, by 54.6mm wide, by 13.8mm deep, these sturdy dimensions give the Pixon a good feel of being well built, and while plastic is not usually the most attractive of materials, it works well in this instance.

With a 240x400 pixel screen supporting 256,000 colours the Pixon doesn't want for capability in that area, and the familiar Samsung navigation system is very efficient and easy to handle. The usual call and end buttons are at the foot of the rather lovely screen, and buttons elsewhere facilitate shortcuts on the very easy to use menu. More, though, on what this handset can do.

This handset comes with a fabulous ...
... 8MP camera which supports still image capture & high quality video footage capture. The camera comes with many user friendly imaging features which allow the user to capture the best quality still image or record the perfect video recording on their mobile phones, as auto focus, face recognition, shake reduction, LED flash and so on. Particularly fun is the panorama system - position for first shot and move through the panorama you wish to snap and you get a series of successive photo's.

It's a superb camera , and more: a superb music player, excellent connectivity and quite ample memory and battery power take the M8800 to new heights, and with the competition coming thick and fast it needs to be suitably advanced so as not to lose ground in the coming months to new rivals.

Web browsing is easy and well facilitated, and the phone has good colour resolution and all the features that one would expect of a phone at the high end of the market as this one is. Interesting is that while the M8800 has GPS and so on, it lacks the now very much required Wi-Fi capability. We are always amazed that manufacturers as advanced and regarded as Samsung can omit such a feature in this day and age, and surely it will let the Pixon down in the market place.

In summary, though, the Samsung M8800 Pixon is a very good high end phone, but is it the best? It suffers from comparison with the LG Renoir KC910 - an excellent all round device that does all this one does but with, perhaps, a little more in the way of style, but will draw custom from those who are familiar with Samsung systems and the excellent 'widget' provisions. We reckon that the handset will be 'improved' in time, with the possibility of it being updated into a Wi-Fi capable device a necessity before long.
Jerry Smith, the editor of http://www.mobilephoneonly.co.uk. An expert on mobile phone and an observer of UK telecommunication market. He writes reviews on latest mobile phones, and also suggests promotional deals and special offers from mobile phone retailers in UK.