Samsung Pixon - Review
You watching Phone Arena’s video preview of the Samsung Pixon. This the second model of the manufacturer with an eight mega pixel camera intended for the European market. The first one was the INNOV8 which had a smaller 2.8-inch display and it is a slider base on the Symbian S60 Operating System.
As you can see both of their backs are similar and it looked like a camera. Samsung claims that Pixon not only has the appearance of such but it also offers good camera capabilities. Since it has a touch sensible display, the device looks like iPhone, Omnia and other popular touch phones. Its display is 3.2-inch with a resolution of 240x400 pixels which is standard for a wide screen.
Unfortunately it only supports 262, 000 colors instead of 60, 000, 000 as in the iPhone. More over the lens in the Samsung is protruding making it thicker. Typical for such a phone, there are only a few buttons, send, end and the central key which is only pressed and doesn’t have the role of an optical mouse as in Omnia. On the left there is a hold locking key, a shortcut button and the micro SD slot for memory card.
The opposite side holds the camera trigger and mode button and the volume rocker which is use for digital zooming. On the top you will find only the connector for the charger and the earphones which strangely, is in micro-USB and the proprietary Samsung jack.
There is nothing on the back besides that company logo, an eight megapixel label, the lens with the automatic cover and a small LED light. With contrast to Omnia, Pixon is not as smart phone in uses software similar to F480. It also has widgets and if you don’t know those are, it's a list of small programs which can be placed in various areas of the screen.
The roughly new once which are simply shortcuts but carry the same idea. The menus are very colorful and if you don’t like it, you feel disappointed that there are no themes to change their appearance. The software has been enhanced and we no longer have to complain about the scrolling in the menus. We will not discuss of the boring stuff in this preview so let us tell you about the interesting things.
One of them of course is the camera, as we’ve already mentioned is an eight megapixel one with a very good interface also seen in Omnia. However the interface is ugly because it’s not a colored one. But it gives fast to access to menu options including scenes, shooting modes and settings. On the top of that, the camera that we can record videos and not only VGA which is 640x480 pixels but in DVD resolution as well which is 720x480 pixels.
The main idea of Pixon is not only to be a camera phone but an all in one device with a good multimedia functionality. The music player is not very beautiful but it's easy to use. However, we don’t like the small album art covers. Overall, it cannot compete with the iPhones and iPod but it’s still good.
Same as in the musical line beat edition, here we have a music recognition feature which is similar to Sony Ericsson track ID. It records a short sample through the microphone or from the radio and the server recognizes the name of the artist and the song. Just like Omnia, Pixon tries to take the multimedia crown from the iPhone by offering DivX and Xvid support so you can play videos without having to convert them. This allows the easily viewing of high quality videos on the 3.2-inch display but we’ll find out if it supports all formats in our review.
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