Samsung Unveils Android-Powered Galaxy Camera
Posted on September 10, 2012 by Max Under Blog · Leave a Comment
Samsung at this time published the first genuine small camera/smart device hybrid – the Galaxy camera features, having 3G/4G connectivity and likewise Wi-Fi (which sets it aside from Wi-Fi-only rivals just like the recently-proclaimed Nikon Coolpix S800c).
Camera makers have already been seeing profits with their compact cameras fall for some time now, pushed by a brand new technology of camera-equipped smartphones on the market. Since the photographic specs of phones progress, there’s less need for most casual photographers to hold a devoted camera, and whenever you are in the industry of promoting compact cameras, it is a real problem. Yet Samsung knows it boasts a choice. Take a WB850F camera, and a Galaxy SIII mobile phone, plus… blend them.
We have been talking to Samsung representatives for weeks with regards to the specification of a camera working the Android Operating System, also, the Korean maker’s early plans were the subject matter of more than one sensitive briefing during a visit to Seoul a few months ago. Ever since the wraps are off, the final requirements is approximately in keeping with what we thought – a flexible, consumer-level camera working ‘full strength’ Android as well as built with either 3G/4G online connectivity besides the now-standard (for Samsung) Wi-Fi. A 1.4GHz quad-core central processor does the picture and ought to supply enough ‘grunt’ to have everything run very easily.
The Galaxy Camera is a 16.3MP compact camera with a 4.8in LCD touchscreen working the Android operating system. It functions the latest technology of Android (4.1 – known as ‘Jelly Bean’), and will be obtainable in two variants – a 3G + Wi-Fi design including a 4G + Wi-Fi version (carrier and also regional details TBC). This will make it the very first ‘connected camera’ to give more than just Wi-Fi connection.
Semantics aside, the Galaxy Camera is very critical. It’s the closest thing we have seen to a true camera/phone hybrid, as well as strong photography descriptions it includes an intense quantity of DNA from Samsung’s well-started type of mobile phones. The important thing is the addition of a robust central processor, as well as 3G/4G connection. This means that like a smart phone, the Galaxy Camera can connect to the net wherever that there’s mobile phone coverage, and should have enough power to run programs and search the world wide web without feeling gradual. An ‘Auto Cloud Backup’ characteristic routinely saves images to Samsung’s AllShare cloud storage service the moment they’re used – another advantage of’always on’ online connectivity.
When we spoke to Sunhong Lim – VP Sales & Marketing in Samsung’s Digital Imaging division back in March, he forecast that ‘once the cloud computing era really dawns, a non-connected unit can be meaningless’. The Galaxy Camera is designed by Samsung additionally, the most certain step yet in this course.
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