Cameras were considered a must-have-gadget until 2000s, when feature phone with “camera” was created. And then so on, mobile manufacturers carried this tradition and NOKIA went so far, that it put a 41MP camera sensor in a phone.
But nobody hit up by a plan of creating a “ smartphone-within-a-camera”. If this idea would carried few years earlier, it would have considered taboo or blasphemous. But in this era of smartphone, you can expect anything from these Multinational firms.
If you have heard of Google Nexus Q and Google Glasses then you shouldn’t be over-amused seeing Samsung Galaxy Camera. The main thing is to put an OS in it. As Android Operating system is on top nowadays, GALAXY camera has Android on top of it.
Beside Galaxy Camera, Samsung has other production line of wi-fi enabled cameras, but they don’t run on Android. Apart of android, it is also having 4G capability and top quality hardware. Basically, it is a Samsung Galaxy S3 with a great camera (approx. 16.3MP) with it.
Now let’s go down to the features of this device:
SPECIFICATIONS:
CONNECTIVITY:
Though Galaxy camera has no support for GPRS, EDGE or 3G, it has a 4G connectivity option. It has wi-fi 802.11 a/b/g/n which is dual band, and it can also act like a wi-fi Hotspot. It has Bluetooth 4.0 also, and supports micro-USB 2.0.
CAMERA PERFORMANCE:
Samsung Galaxy Camera has a 16.3MP (4608*3456 pixel) camera. It has a 21x optical zoom which is great, even for a camera (thanks to optical image stabilization). It also has a pop-up xenon Flash and AF light.
As far as videos are concerned, it is capable of shooting videos at 1080p @30fps and 512p at 120 fps. It doesn’t have a secondary camera. Other camera features include geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection and of course optical image stabilization.
DISPLAY AND DIMENSIONS:
Samsung Galaxy Camera has the dimensions of (128.7*70.8*19.1) mm. Its weight is 300 g. It has the super clear LCD and a capacitive touch-screen it has 16M colours. Its screen has the length of 4.8 inches diagonally.
Its screen resolution is 720*1280 pixels and have a pixel density of almost 306 ppi It has a corning Gorilla Glass 2 protection also and a touchwiz UI.
PROCESSING POWER AND MEMORY:
Samsung Galaxy Camera come with the android 4.1 on-the-board, though it can be upgraded to 4.1.2. It has an exynos quad-core chip in it, which are clocked at 1.4 GHZ cortex -A9. It has a GPU MALI- 400MP.
It also has a 1GB RAM and 4GB internal memory. It also supports micro SD card up to 64GB.
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OTHER FEATURES:
Other features include a 3.5 mm jack, GPS with A-GPS support, java support via java MIDP emulator, SNS integration, DropBox storage up to 50 GB, HDMI port Video formats like mp4/divx/xvid/wmv/h.264/h.263 are supported.
Audio formats like mp3/wav/eAAC+/flac are also supported. It also have a li-ion 1650 mAH battery .
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