| The Samsung g800 is latest camera phone | | | | comes to taking burst image shots as it takes |
| launched by Samsung in the current hot camera | | | | only VGA resolution shots and none in full |
| phone market. The device features a 5 megapixel | | | | resolution in the burst shoot mode. Otherwise it |
| camera sensor which is becoming fairly common | | | | has exceptionally good picture and video shooting |
| these days and best of all it has 3 times optical | | | | capabilities which is done in VGA resolution at |
| zoom which is quite a novelty. | | | | 30fps. |
| The back of the phone hides the camera and the | | | | Moving on to the other features, the phone has a |
| xenon flash under a metallic cover which slides to | | | | hard tactile keypad which is made more usable by |
| expose the big sensor of the camera. The | | | | the thin lines of division through the matrix of |
| camera unit has auto focus with a resolution of | | | | keys. The display is excellent with rich colors and |
| 2560x1920 pixels. The pictures taken by it are | | | | deep textures. One slight downside is that it can |
| vivid and bright with the most possible retention | | | | be slightly difficult to read in sunlight. |
| of natural colors. The optical zoom is highly | | | | The multimedia is managed by a media player |
| effective as it allows for taking close-ups without | | | | which plays mp3, aac, e-aac+ and wma audio and |
| risk of loosing detail. | | | | 3gp and mpeg4 video. The provision of a |
| At a glance the camera seems to be very good | | | | document reader which allows reading word, |
| but it does have some shortcomings. For example | | | | excel, PowerPoint and PDF documents easily over |
| there is no EXIF information stored in the pictures | | | | the large 2.4 inches screen is a welcome addition. |
| which makes it difficult to analyze pictures at a | | | | There is a TV out for directly viewing the |
| later date and for organizing them. Secondly, the | | | | slideshow of the brilliant photos and videos taken |
| size of the pictures is enormous. For example in | | | | by the camera. At the moment the Samsung |
| the test shoot out, the size of full resolution jpeg | | | | G800 is one of the best phones in market and is |
| image was found to be 2.5 MB which is simply too | | | | better than any of the Sony Ericsson or Nokia |
| much for uploading quickly to photosharing sites. | | | | phones in market. |
| Thirdly, the camera is totally worthless when it | | | | |