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Samsung Electronics will market the world¡¯s first 5-megapixel camera phone. The company said Wednesday that its new cell phone handsets equipped with a 5-megapixel camera will be sold through SK Telecom beginning late this month. Samsung Electronics is the world¡¯s first handset maker to produce 5-megapixel camera phones, surpassing its Japanese rivals in highly competitive overseas markets.
Prior to the production of the newest camera phones, Samsung Electronics introduced the world¡¯s second 3-megapixel camera phone in August, behind Japanese Casio. Pixels refer to the small dots that constitute a photo -- the higher the number of pixels, the clearer the photo, generally.
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Samsung Electronics on Wednesday unveiled the world's first 5 mega pixel cellular phone at an unveiling ceremony held at an exhibition hall in Taepyong-ro, Seoul. /Yonhap.
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Samsung Electronics equips its 5-megapixel camera phones with a micro lens module (2.2¡¿2.2§), one-twentieth the size of ordinary digital camera lenses. Samsung developed the tiny lens module in collaboration with Japanese lens maker Asahi Pentax. Samsung Executive director Kim Sang-bae said that other camera manufacturers do not have this proprietary lens module technology. Because the 5-megapixel camera phone is the first cell phone to have TFT-LCD, which can display 16 million different colors, it can express colors 60 times more accurately than can existing camera phones. The 5-megapixel phone also features an MP3 player and camcorder function. Samsung Electronics spent 18 months to develop the phone.
Samsung Electronics CEO Lee Ki-tae said that the development of the 5-megapixel camera phone is a remarkable accomplishment for Korea¡¯s cell phone technologies, which not only enhance Korea¡¯s competitiveness but also contribute to the development of the global cell phone industry.
Samsung Electronics forecasts that with the arrival of the 5-megapixel camera phone, low pixel cameras with a 1- to 2-megapixel lens will gradually disappear from the market.
(Kim Ki-hong, darma90@chosun.com )
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