Samsung SCH-A970 Picture Phone

The SCH-A970 is a big (3.7 by 1.8 by 1 inches, 5.1 ounces) flip phone with top-of-the-line features: a memory card slot, an MP3 player you can operate entirely from the front panel, speech-to-text for text messages, speaker-independent voice recognition, and plenty of horsepower for high-end games. With 4 hours and 24 minutes continuous talk time the battery is good, but not great. The A970 is Verizon's most powerful phone, outpacing the Motorola E815 and LG VX8100 on features.
The star feature here is the 2-megapixel camera. To activate it, you flip the phone open and swivel the screen 90 degrees as if you're holding a camcorder. Then you use the big button on the side of the phone—which is now facing you—to take shots.
The SCH-A970's 2X optical zoom is the real thing, and it lets you get close in where no other camera phone (except Sprint's A940, this phone's twin) can. If you don't decide to add a TransFlash card, the phone has a roomy 60MB of available memory for photos, videos, and games.
In our test shots, the SCH-A970 came out at the low end of 2MP resolution, but provided accurate, vibrant colors and relatively little noise or distortion. The photo was a touch underexposed, but not too badly. However, the A970 didn't come up to the Samsung MM-A800's level of quality. The MM-A800, the best camera phone available in the U.S. to date, found texture in parts of our sample image that seemed blurry or washed-out in the A970 picture.

LG P7200 with 2 Mega Pixel Camera lands in Saudi Arabia

The new mobile phones are fully fledged multimedia and equipped with latest communication technologies and supports tri-band services, 64 MB onboard memory and a 1000 entry phonebook. The new mobile phone P7200 comes with GPRS and EDGE technology for fast downloads of data. Sharing files will be simple enough thanks to the inclusion of Blue-tooth ,USB Plug and Play connectivity. Browsing the internet is possible due to the presence of WAP. P7200 mobile phone is equipped with 265 TFT LCD Screen and has built in MP3 player with special buttons to control music playback on external side of the phone, enabling us to use the handset as a music player directly. It is, as well, equipped with extra T-flash slot for additional data and MP3 memory. It has 2mega pixel camera with video capture and auto focus feature. It is equipped with a lithium-ion battery which will allow talk time of 4 hours and stand by of 200 hours. The P7200 is only 17 mm thin and the keypad design shares the RAZR's feel. Another strong point of the phone is the support of Blue-tooth wireless interface.

Send in Your Picture to TIME for Person of the Year

Each December TIME Magazine features a Person of the Year on it's cover. This year, TIME is giving you the choice to show the word your choice of Person of the Year. On this site, you can submit a photo of the person you believe deserves the title the most. Hint, submitting your own picture (with a cameraphone) is perfectly acceptable, it's even encouraged!
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