Panasonic has revealed its mysterious Lumix phone. If by “revealed” you mean “stuck in a glass case”. Even the Japanese product page offers little in the way of information.
Here’s what we know, in addition to the 13.2 megapixel CMOS sensor and a 3.3-inch VGA LCD already announced. The camera looks a lot more like a phone than I expected, and has a slide-out numerical keypad in addition to a clicky-wheel control and several buttons under the screen, There’s also a hardware shutter release, a flash and proper zoom buttons for the 27mm wide-angle lens. The phone-cam, on show right now at the CEATEC electronics show in Japan, also has 3G and Wi-Fi for sending photos to a computer.
According to UberGizmo, which has actually seen the thing, the Lumix phone is running a Linux OS, and it looks “more like a fancy feature phone” than a smart-phone. This is rather disappointing, given the high-quality of Panasonic’s other Lumix cameras. Our dream of a proper camera with a cell radio stuffed inside will have to wait for another time.
Photo Digest LUMIX Phone, VIERA Mobile is also available [Panasonic Blog]
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