Xmas Gift Suggestions For Me

[Opti]

Pretty please santa?

The CCD (charge-coupled device) camera and high-sensitivity flash allow the user to take the same quality pictures one gets from a top-end digital camera. Similar to Samsung's premium grade camera phones, the S250 can also function as a camcorder. The 92MB onboard memory can store up to 100 minutes of video (320x240), and a 32MB auxiliary memory is included as a standard feature. The shutter speed is as fast as 1/1,000 th of a second, allowing the user to film beautiful landscapes as well as subjects as close as 10 cm. The S250 can be connected to a TV to display video during shooting or to show footage that has already been recorded in the mobile phone.

The S250 comes with a unique “stretch” design, reminiscent of the futuristic phones seen in the movie The Matrix . The high-quality camera lens and LCD remain covered and protected when the phone is closed, and when it is stretched open, the product has the feel of a regular digital camera.

Samsung has also set a new standard in mobile phone display technology. Until now, mobile phones had been equipped with LCDs capable of 262,000-color resolution. The S250 boasts a QVGA TFD-LCD (Thin Film Diode-Liquid Crystal Display) that has previously been adapted only for top-end TVs and desktop monitors. The display can reproduce 16 million colors, over 60 times the color compared to existing mobile phone displays, all the hues found in nature; thus, QVGA resolution has been referred to as “true color.”






http://www.samsung.com/PressCenter/PressRe...1020_0000074352

[Mike AI]

Nice, will it even work in the States? It will probably take 8 months before it gets here.....

[Evil Chris]

It's a cdma phone, so it should work for any provider that supports cdma.

[Mike AI]

Originally posted by Evil Chris@Oct 25 2004, 09:07 AM
It's a cdma phone, so it should work for any provider that supports cdma.

Chris, I understand the theory behind it....

But have you ever had to deal with a Cell phone company, and their minimum wage employees? Things are not that simple. Especially for those of us who are not gifted technically.

The whole "Sorry sir, we don't support that phone" is a potential problem.

[Opti]

Originally posted by Evil Chris@Oct 26 2004, 12:07 AM
It's a cdma phone, so it should work for any provider that supports cdma.

I was thinking/hoping the same... but I plan to find out for certain if I can, and buy one.

I've been wanting a new phone for ages but nothing has had "that" feature to grab me.. think this one does it... Apart from the camera and camcorder feature, the design, display screen, memory size/options plus the tv out finally make this a device I would carry around and use. And start to use all the other pda/internet features that i havent cared enough about to upgrade my phone to get before.