Two of the most important (or most coveted) gadgets these days are the mobile phone and the digital camera. Now the financial crunch has affected everybody and even certified technophiles are forced, from time to time, to choose between the two. You either choose to spend your hard-earned money on an excellent mobile or a first-rate camera. Or you get both gadgets but chances are, one of them will have to be of inferior quality as you can only stretch the pound so far.

 

Well, Samsung comes to rescue so that you no longer have to be torn between the two gadgets. The Samsung Pixon 12 is a mobile that boasts of a 12MP camera and industry watchers are saying that because of this capacity, owning the Pixon 12 is akin to having a dedicated digital camera as well. 

 

The Pixon 12 is the first phone to offer 12MP capacity. Sony Ericsson earlier announced the Idou, now renamed Satio as also being of 12MP capacity but as it turns out, Samsung will release its device earlier (this June) so it appears Sony Ericsson will have to settle for second place on this one. 

 

Apart from megapixel power, the Pixon 12’s camera also presents innovative features such as tap to focus, auto mode which automatically lets the camera harmonize image capture settings with existing lighting conditions and face recognition features. 

 

Applications you will find on this phone are Share Pix, which allows you to upload your photos into Facebook, Picasa, Flickr and so on. There’s also a multiple sort feature where you can organise your images by file name, tags, time and rating. Multiple selection allows you to open up a group of images for easier viewing and editing as opposed to looking at images one at a time.