Samsung SCH-W880

By Nick Mokey
October 1st, 2009

The line between cameras and cell phones is blurring, while somewhat ironically, the pictures these hacked-together hybrids take keep getting sharper and sharper. We've seen manufacturers cram higher and higher resolution into the same tiny cell phone cameras for years now, but Samsung's SCH-W880 may be one of the first to breed real point-and-shoot optics into a cell phone.

Rather than merely shoehorning an image sensor into a smartphone, Samsung has borrowed aspects of both familiar form factors for the W880, making it look like the true lovechild of a camera and a phone. That means a real mode dial and shutter button, Xenon flash, and more importantly, a legit 3x optical zoom lens in front of a 12-megapixel sensor. Like many modern point-and-shoot cams, it will even shoot 720p HD video at 30 frames per second.

And Samsung hasn't neglected the whole ...

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