UPDATE: Samsung AMOLED 12M (SCH-W880) announced in Korea.

Seems Samsung wants to pitch its upcoming SCH-W880 as a potent substitute for point-and-shoot digital camera. A tipster notified about this yesterday clearly indicating that W880 has more selling points than its high-resolution camera sensor and optical zoom. The phone’s camera features include, 12 megapixel resolution support, mode dial usually found in a digital camera, dedicated camera button, HD video recording and finally the 3x optical zoom.

As far as other features are concerned, there’s a 3.3-inch WVGA AMOLED touchscreen display and it wouldn’t be surprising to find other features like Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, microSD card slot, DMB etc.

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Samsung has launched its 12 megapixel shooter, Pixon12 (M8910) in India. The phone boasts a rich set of features to handle the camera duties like the 28mm wide-angle lens, Xenon flash, image stabilizer, touch auto focus, smart auto feature that adjusts camera settings according to the environment, face/smile detection and ability to record videos at DVD resolution.

Amongst other features, it integrates a 3.1-inch AMOLED touchscreen display (10000:1 contrast, 480×800 pixels), HSPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth v2.1, A-GPS, TV-out, DivX and XviD and microSD card slot.

The phone will appear in stores soon for Rs. 29,990.

Samsung Pixon12 is all set to land to arrive in Blighty on August 1. Phones4u is the exclusive partner to make this happen and they’re taking preorders right now if you commit to a £40 plan on Orange.

A quick rehash – Pixon12 will be the first 12MP snapper to go on sale and boasts support for quad-band GSM, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, 3.1-inch AMOLED screen, FM Radio with RDS, microSD card slot and much more.

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Now we are getting somewhere as far as cameraphones are concerned. Though Samsung is already one step ahead of the competition, they are looking to make that two or three. As you can see, the picture above shows a Samsung phone with 12MP sensor, 3X optical zoom, Xenon flash and Power LED. Optical zoom was the most craved feature in a camera phone and Samsung is likely to be the first one to fulfill it. The only other feature confirmed is GPS but we may not be wrong to expect rest of the features at par with Pixon12.

So the question now remains is when will this phone make an official entry. Samsung is going to announce a new phone on June 15. Will this be it?

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UPDATE: It has a 3.1-inch AMOLED screen with 10000:1 contrast ratio and 720×480 resolution, quad-band GSM, GPS, microSD card slot, 150MB internal memory, FM Radio with RDS, video recording at 30fps, fast image saving and a dedicated camera key.

Sony Ericsson was the first one to unveil a 12-megapixel phone but Samsung will be first one to ship it. The Pixon12 (M8910) is the successor of Pixon and will hit the shops by the end of June in Europe. The phone camera features start with 28mm wide-angle lens, touch auto focus, smart auto that decides the ISO, exposure etc. on the basis of subject and the environment, Xenon Flash, digital zoom, face recognition, shake reduction and beauty shot.

Pixon12 also features HSUPA and Wi-Fi to share and upload the pictures on social networking sites via Sharepix.

No word on the price.