Samsung pixon have wifi

Samsung M Pixon live. We feel it's only fair to start with LG. Not only because Samsung are just about starting to come close to the high video recording bar of the groundbreaking Viewty. It's also worth observing the different approach of compatriot makers. While Samsung choose to share their 8MP efforts between a Symbian all-in-one and a touchscreen, LG have more of a crossover gadget in the face of Renoir. Other than that, the Renoir and the Pixon are almost identical save for a tad smaller screen on the LG handset.

LG KC Renoir. It surely won't go easy on your wallet but, again, it has the best camera we've seen to date on a mobile phone. Furthermore, it rides on the vast capabilities of Symbian, which might seem a fair trade for touchscreen. Now, should touchscreen make you tick and budget be tighter, the Viewty is still out there and eager to please also available in 3G-less version as KE While not an 8MP unit, its capable camera is a perfectly adequate sub in most cases.

Been around quite some time now, the Viewty is way easier with the price tag than the latest releases. An additional motion sensor option makes images flow through automatically when you tilt the phone to either side — a novel feature that can turn frustrating as images flow past before you can stop them. Both still images and video clips can be uploaded to a variety of websites and blogs via the integrated Shozu application. Video shooting quality on the Pixon is good for a mobile, capturing images at VGA x pixels or WVGA x resolution at 30 frames per second for smooth, decent quality footage.

Additionally, it has a slow motion shooting mode, capturing QVGA resolution clips at fps for smooth slo-mo playback. Handy video editing software is included too. The Pixon has good quality media player functionality too. The music player has a familiar set of track sorting categories, and onscreen playback touch controls are conventional enough for intuitive fingertip operation. Sound quality is very good through the above average supplied bud in-ear earphone, with good depth of sound and solid amounts of bass.

Stereo Bluetooth 'phones are supported too, and there's a loud loudspeaker option. The video player is a decent bit of software too, with full screen view looking good on the large display.

With GPS inside, images can be geo-tagged with exact positioning data, so you can view exactly where pictures were taken on maps on suitably enabled online services or software packages. This neat application looks good on the large screen, providing over-the-air search options for locations, points of interest, addresses and services, as well as instant mapping for your exact position. It's not, though, a voice guided turn-by-turn Sat Nav package, so doesn't offer the full functionality that you can get from smartphone-style satellite navigation software.

The NetFront web browser on the Pixon, powered by HSDPA, provides a reasonably quick and effective way of checking out full web pages, with onscreen or volume button controlled zooming, and finger touch panning. Again, not as delightful as the iPhone's browser, but it does the job reasonably well. RSS feeds are also supported. Samsung has naturally included a good spread of tools and organiser functionality.

Email attachments or files copied to the phone can be read by the document viewer, while there's a voice recorder and the usual rundown of calendar, memo, tasks, world clock, timer, stopwatch, alarms, calculator and convertor. As well as the fancy stuff, the Pixon does voice calls really well too. The virtual pop-up keypad onscreen works effectively, and scrolling through contacts is quick and simple aided by an alphabetical tab you can drag down the side of the screen.

Call quality is top-class. Battery life is estimated to be better than the Tocco's, with Samsung figures of up to 4 hours talktime on 3G or minutes on GSM networks.

Standby is reckoned to be hours in 3G coverage or hours on GSM. While battery life will depend on exactly how it's used particularly power hungry features like GPS , its performance is acceptable for a touchscreen device. With average usage, we usually got 2 days between charges. Good quality imaging may not be all about pixel count, but the Pixon 8-megapixel cameraphone delivers with an excellent shooting performance and a well thought out, well featured, and easy to use imaging touch control system.

Samsung's touchscreen user interface has been improved on this model, too, making it a comfortable finger-driven device. It doesn't have everything though, the lack of Wi-Fi and smartphone functionality, and limited in-box storage compared to higher end heavyweight mobiles, lessening its non-photo appeal for some users.

This new high specification camera phone joins the already released Sony Ericsson C and LG Renoir in offering the very height of mobile phone camera lenses available on the UK mobile phones market.

The Samsung Pixon represents the very latest in mobile technology that the manufacturer has to offer, as more and more high specification features are bundled into their latest handsets it makes you wonder just how long it will be before consumers start to forget about standalone products such as digital cameras and MP3 players.

Here are the latest Insider stories. More Insider Sign Out. Sign In Register.