The Samsung Memoir is a new touch-screen camera phone, available exclusively from T-Mobile in the USA. The Memoir (SGH-T929), is designed to look and feel like a point-and-shoot digital camera, and has a built-in 8 megapixel camera with Xenon flash, 16x digital zoom and five shooting modes. Samsung promises that it will go on sale by the end of the month.
Samsung did not explain why anyone would want 8 megapixels squeezed into a tiny sensor. It might be handy for outdoor use. But you’d better have AWS 3G service. If you’re stuck with 200 Kbps GPRS data, don’t even think of uploading 8 Megapixel images on the 40 Kbps upstream GPRS data channel.
Samsung’s TouchWiz user interface is utilized along with T-Mobile’s AWS-band 3G network. Samsung’s new photo widget allows customers to post images taken with the Memoir directly to online photo sharing source, such as flickr, Kodak Gallery, Photobucket and Snapfish.
The Memoir’s has a virtual QWERTY keypad for multiple messaging capabilities, including text, multimedia messaging, instant messaging and e-mai. The Memoir has a music and video player and built-in Assisted GPS navigation, which allows customers to utilize location-based services including turn-by-turn directions. For hands-free use, the Memoir features stereo Bluetooth technology, speakerphone and voice-activated dialing.
No microSD card slot. No Wi-Fi. Cellular carriers should love it.
