Fresh from yesterday’s breath-taking technology announcements made by Nokia, Samsung are continuing the tech-frenzy by announcing the Samsung SPH-V8200 mobile camera phone with no less than 8 Megapixels!! OK, so a resolution that high is only currently useful to professional photographers, who presumably would use a camera rather than a phone for the day job, but 8 megapixels – wow! Unfortunately, it’s only available in Korea at the moment (doh!), but it’s a sure sign of things to come.

Indeed, Ki-Tae Lee, President of Telecommunication Network, Samsung Electronics, said “Mobile phones will become the hub of all IT devices, being developed into “All in One” device that incorporates functions necessary for a variety of human activities”, and I think he has a point. Mobile phones are swallowing all gadgets in their path with seemingly unstoppable momentum. There must be a limit somewhere though – there’s only so much gadgetry you can shove into such a small form factor, and quad-band radios, megapixel cameras, video cameras, mobile TV players and WLAN connectivity is a lot to shove! But that’s just describing this year’s models that are here now (or soon will be). What’s coming in the mobile phone manufacturer’s R&D labs is a tightly guarded secret. How much other wizardry can be squashed into the little devices remains to be seen, but I don’t think we’re anywhere near the limits yet. Quite glorious!

[source: telecomskorea.com, mobilemag.com]