Well if you wanted to take a look at Samsung’s behemoth 12MP sensor with 3X optical zoom that is integrated in the SCH-W880, Samsung has gladly shared the picture of the module. The module has been developed by Samsung Electro-Mechanics (SEM) and as we know it’s the world’s first module for mobile phone to integrate 12MP sensor with optical zoom.

SEM claims that the module’s flash related circuits help to maintain a constant brightness with subjects being shot at a distance as close as 10cm or up to 150cm. The flash light effectively reaches up to 3 meters.

As for other features, the camera module supports 1280×720 pixels video recording at 30fps, image stabilization, face detection up to 10 faces, blink detection, panorama, macro mode etc.

UPDATE: Specs added below and sadly, there’s no word on Wi-Fi or GPS.
UPDATE 2: GSMArena has got some live pictures of the phone and reckons Samsung will swap T-DMB with Wi-Fi and GPS in M8920 (international version).

After being revealed couple of times in the past few days, Samsung has rightly made the world’s first phone with 12MP camera and optical zoom official. AMOLED 12M or SCH-W880 can take pictures at 12 megapixel resolution and offers 3x optical zoom, 2x digital zoom, 720p video recording (1280×720) at 30fps and Xenon flash. It also supports touch auto focus, image stabilization, Smart Auto (that automatically selects the scene according to environment) and face detection.

Rest of the feature set is yet to be confirmed but the phone has a 3.3-inch AMOLED WVGA (800×480) touchscreen display, TouchWiz UI and 4GB internal memory.

It will hit the Korean retail shelves early next month.

Specifications:

Network: WCDMA (2100 MHz); GSM(900), DCS(1800 ), PCS(1900) Roaming
Display: 3.3” WVGA AMOLED
Camera: 12MP with 3X Optical Zoom, 2X Digital Zoom, Xenon + Power Led Flash, Touch AF Tracking, Smart Auto, Beauty Shot, Macro Shot
Video: HD Level (1280 x 720) 30fps
Format support: Video – MPEG4, H.263, H.264, DivX, XviD; Audio – MP3, AAC, AAC+, AAC+e, WMA
Terrestrial DMB (Mobile TV)
Connectivity: Bluetooth® 2.0, USB 2.0 HS (micro USB)
Internal memory: 4GB
External memory: Micro SD (up to 32GB)
Battery: 1,100 mAh
Size: 115.8 x 56.9 x 16.3 mm

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.

[Thanks, Jeon!]

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

The first picture of the presumed Pixon12 successor was leaked in June and now we’ve got another one albeit a Korean version. The phone will supposedly arrive on SKT as SCH-W880. As for now, other details are not known but it’s good to see high-resolution mobile cameras with optical zoom are not far away. In this case, the phone will have a 12MP sensor with 3x optical zoom.