Samsung M8800 Pixon
The basics
Samy’s latest touch phone is endowed with a sizeable autofocus led eight megapixel snapper packing sweet photos tricks like anti-shake, face, blink and smile detection and geotagging. An automatic lens also adds to its pro sheen. The 3.2-inch display is spacious enough to accommodate your pinkies while HSDPA download speeds, WVGA and slow quality video recording and widget customization cap its feature line up.
The good
The Pixon’s touch moves may not be as fluid as the Apple iPhone 3G but the touchscreen is still receptive to your taps and swipes. But our ticklish concerns take back seat to the Pixon photographic prowess with the eight megapixel shutterbug taking vivid colourful and printable snaps. Its suite of detection mods also work well (unfortunately smile mode doesn’t blot out the miserable buggers). Equally impressive is the handset’s video capture skills, shooting dailies in a polished WVGA quality at 30fps with quick fire action footage easily collared using the fun slo mo setting.
The bad
As a leading camphone, the absence of a Xenon flash is mystifying. Its dual LED is too hit and miss to be consistently effective in low lighting conditions making this Xenon no show even more galling. Similarly, Samy should be sent to the sin bin for not supporting A-GPS for a quicker sputnik fix and shown a red for ditching Wi-Fi.
The bottom line
Despite some obvious feature boobs, the Pixon is still a tidy tickler but more importantly for the mobile photography nut, a cracking camphone.
User comments (10)
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Jean02 December 2009
Own this phone - hate this phone! Don't know how it got 4G's! Awful - don't buy!
Report as inappropriateSteve05 December 2009
I just got the Pixon and I love it, great pictures & video. Responsive touch screen, low price.
Report as inappropriatejimcross16 December 2009
I live in Cyprus and picked a Pixon up pre owned, problem as we live usually in a hot sunny climate you just cannot see the screen in daylight, a pointless phone for me and even the camera being 8 mpx is not that good with it's plastic lens, my last Nokia N75 had only 4 mpx but the pictures with it's Zeiss glass lens were indeed better, no a good buy for me, maybe better to use when in the UK where it's 3G status would work, here no such luck, so only 3* from me out of five. anyone want one then contact me..
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Shevrulay06 January 2010
Own this phone was good to begin with for first few months. Camera is to that amazing and the screen is rubbish keep playing up all the time. Not worth it
Report as inappropriatevicky smith21 February 2010
i had this phone on a upgrade in January 2009 - by first week of feb 2010 the left hand side of the touch screen stopped working completely ........ now in repair with phone provider but apparently they knew of a software issue in June 2009, why oh why didnt they call me to tell me there was a problem,. I am back at the moment with my faithful samsung G600 til the other one gets fixed - bring on my upgrade date a very very long 4 months away - help!!!!!
Report as inappropriatehans12306 May 2010
ure all wrong this phones great
Report as inappropriateRenbeer26 August 2010
Terrible phone, i find myself bashing away trying to get it it into camera mode and it takes sooo looong to get there. With my old sony open the shutter and you were good to go. Also I'm surprised no-one has mentioned the god awful texting capabilities did they add the handwriting facility as a joke? You can only write one letter at a time and it doesn't seem to recognise the alphabet! Trying to write simple messages but the words i want to use and use the most have to be cycled through the words i don't. Please please please don't bother 1/2G. Steve the Chef.
Report as inappropriateFizzbomb28 February 2011
I owned a Samsung Pixon m8800 a couple of years ago. The worst phone ever. The touchscreen was terrible, the camera was just pure rubbish (the reason I went for this phone was the camera), and I can't think of one positive thing to say about it. Obviously I doubt it's available anymore - but just in case you were thinking about buying one second hand.....DON'T.
Report as inappropriatePetras9920 April 2011
Never had any of the above probs with my pixon, except sme connectivity probs. 1 of best phones I've owned, but have 2 admit I mainly use it 4 txting and taking pics. Pics r brilliant, hoping my next choice N8 (12mpx) will do even better
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