The Samsung W880 is the world’s first 12 megapixel camera with 3x optical zoom. It supports a hardware Mode dial and a real zoom lever that gives a real feel like of a camera . It is a mix  between a the mobile phone and slim digicam.

Currently, Samsung W880 is South Korea bound only, it’s enough to give us a taste of what’s coming in the shape of the rumored Samsung M8920, which should make it to West sometime next year but will carry Wi-Fi and GPS.

Samsung W880 AMOLED 12M consists all mechanical elements of a point-and-shoot camera, but still has enough room left for the phone parts. It’s not the first phone to achieve that but it’s the first 12-megapixel with the added 3x optical zoom and xenon flash.

The Samsung W880 has advanced imaging functions too like tracking touch autofocus, 720p@30 fps video recording, 3.3″ big AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with WVGA resolution.

The phone has tri-band GSM and support for UMTS, those are meant for roaming only - the AMOLED 12M is for South Korea only. We will be on the watch for the global version coming in the beginning of next year.

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