INTRODUCTION:

The new Samsung Pixon has arrived with an 8-megapixel camera and a multimedia player, this latest model from a Korean company is a high-class and is the direct rival of the Renoir from LG. Boasts the title “King of all multimedia phones”, currently held by iPhone. Under the hood of this piece of art you will find loads of features, this includes the 8-megapixel camera claimed to be “better than a genuine camera” also a various video file formats for playing clips even without converting to them. Unfortunately it lacks in global 3G and Wi-Fi.

WHAT’S IN THE BOX?

• Samsung Pixon
• Earphones and a 3.5mm stereo adapter
• Charger
• Stylus

DESIGN:

The Samsung Pixon is claimed to be the slimmest 8-megapixel camera phone to date, but regrettably technology hasn’t figured out how to hide an 8-megapixel camera and not forgetting all the extras in an extremely thin phone. Pixon is not a “fat” phone but it does not match up to other trendy phones in the market, its lens and bottom also is protruding (similar to a usual camera). The phone is not as thin as we would like however it does feel good in the hand, but let’s face it the phone is not one of the best designs and it also is just a typical multifunctional model. On the upside it is very user-friendly and it’s well made.

Most of the front of the phone is taken up by the display which is 3.2 and has a resolution 240×400 on a standard wide screen with a support of 265k. It produces pretty decent images also while watching videos. It also has a great addition it, the brightness sensor this makes its display usable on sunny days.

The Pixon mainly uses touch for all its entries, but there are also physical END and SEND keys. These keys are tiny but protruding and eminent by touch. In-between these keys is a little round button, this mouse can be pressed and is used to take you back.  Most of the buttons are found on the rugged sides; on your left is the Shortcut keys the Hold (locking) and a microSD card slot this is covered with a lid. On the right resides the camera trigger; also included is the camera buttons, at the top resides a charger connector, which is also used for data cable and headphones.

PHONEBOOK:

The improvements made, are more contacts are visible at once, and you can search by your finger scrolling through alphabet. You have multiple fields for every contact and here you able to have multiple entries for each label, this way you able to input two cell phone numbers. It has a large numeric onscreen keypad which is user-friendly, your contacts picture is visualized this takes up half of its screen when receiving a call.

MESSAGING:

Even though the Pixon has an e-mail client, you will be very disappointed with its lack of the automatic settings even of the most popular mail servers. To have Gmail checked server ports had to be manually entered. It has a QWERTY this is activated by rotating the phone.

CONNECTIVITY:

THE Pixon does not support 3G outside the Europe, making it a global quad-band GSM giving you at least 2G on every GSM networks. These days most cell phones are used to surf the net unfortunately this non-smart Pixon is not one of them.

The navigation and page visualization are done by simply finger scrolling, but once again it lacks in zooming out/in. this phone browses fast and correct only the navigation is bad.

CAMERA:

The Pixon come packed with an excellent 8-megapixel camera and is equipped with an overabundance of extras, identical to OMNIA’s and its excellent.  This touch screen come features like smile shot, 13 scenes, face detection, macro, panorama, effects ,ISO adjustments and white balance. It has fast focus 2 seconds in the day and it saves the picture immediately in a mere second. Using the phone is a real pleasure.

The Pixon is fast and also takes great pictures, objects are in proportion and the color is awesome very realistic in all weather conditions, even the Macro shots come out very good. Unfortunately, the Pixon is set with a very weak flash; this is very disappointing since the phone does boast a high-class camera. The phone records videos within DVD resolution of 720x480with is fairly good quality pictures.

MULTIMEDIA:

The music player is not very attractive but it is good, it’s enjoyable to use but it does look old school. It can visualize album art of the songs uploaded; it’s also equipped with RDS and FM radio with an easy to use interface. Even though the phone doesn’t have stereo, its loudspeaker sounds great as both loudness and quality. It doesn’t come with a 3.5mm adapter but with earplugs same as the Walkman ones. In addition you have 7 equalizer presets also WOW SRS effect.

PERFORMANCE:

We were ecstatic with Pixon’s capability as a receptacle multimedia player; it also passes as just an ordinary phone as well. The sound when receiving or making a call are somewhat muffled from time to time, but above all its pretty good. Regrettably the loudspeaker sounds poor at high levels making the calls sound muddled (yet the music sounds good at the same levels). On the other end you sound weak, yet you speaking from short distances.

CONCLUSION:

The Pixon is the only phone that is able to compete with the iPhone, yet it has a unattractive music player the sound is still outstanding. This model is user-friendly and has an excellent functionality, although the video playback lacks behind the various codec support compensates for it. It has an awesome 8-megapixel camera but its web browser is not so commendable. All in all if you looking for a fun phone then I suggests you go for the Pixon.

PROS:

• It has admirable video playback capabilities
• The music player is of good quality
• It comes with an outstanding and excellent 8-megapixel camera.
• Great overall functionality.

CONS:

• Unfortunately the web browser is weak.
• Its not a Smart-phone.
• The flash is very disappointing.
• It doesn’t have a color scheme.