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