Although Samsung release high-end feature-rich phones in the West, they’ve got nothing on the phone the company releases in its native South Korea. Take this phone, for example, the Samsung Haptic 8MP. As you’d probably guess, it features an 8 megapixel camera and a touch-screen with haptic feedback. Nothing new there – the Samsung Pixon and Samsung Tocco Ultra both offer the same, and they’re on sale across Europe right now.

But the Haptic8MP offers a little bit more, as South Koreans are a little more demanding when ti comes to their tech…

How demanding? Well, in addition to the 8 megapixel camera, haptic feedback and touchscreen, Samsung also had to throw in a 3.3″ screen, Xenon flash, auto-focus, 5.76HSUPA file upload speed, 7.2Mbps HSDPA file download speed, Bluetooth 2.0, T-DMB mobile TV – and more!

As if all that wasn’t enough, it also features face-tagging. With this enabled, the Haptci8MP let you tag a photo’s face with the name of the person the face belongs to. Whenever you flick through your pics on the phone, it’ll automatically recognize the person from their face, and let you call them or send a text message to them without having to type in their name. Neat. Pointless, but neat (what’s quicker – finding a contact in an alphabetical list, or scrolling through hundreds of photos looking fro the one with the picture of your mate in it?!)

The Samsung Haptic8MP is only avaiable in Korea, priced around 900,000 KRW.

[Source: Aving.net]