Samsung today unveiled the launch of the Samsung i8510 (globally known as INNOV8), a first 8 megapixel phone in the UK market which will be available in early September 2008. Officially announced globally 3 weeks ago, the i8510 brings photography and multimedia, and a surround-sound cinematic video experience. The handset includes a crystal clear 2.8″ 16M colour LCD display, internal 8GB memory and external memory slot supporting up to 16GB, DivX, WMV, Real Player and MPEG4 files support. The device is running Symbian OS V9.3 S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 and comes with 1200 mAh which provides up to 300/510 min (3G/2.5G) of talk time and up to 330 / 310 hrs (3G/2.5G) of standby time. Pricing has not been announced.

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Samsung’s new INNOV8 i8510 is powered by Symbian S60 3rd Edition and works in GSM (850/900/1800/1900MHz) and UMTS/HSDPA (900/2100MHz). The i8510 includes DivX, WMA, H.264 video codec support without any file conversion to play with dual speakers and DNSe (Digital Natural Sound Engine) 3D sound engine. The 2.9″ QVGA display provides 16 million colors, the 8 megapixel camera is equipped with an auto focus and image stabilization, blink, and face detection.

The i8510 handset has a built-in GPS receiver, which geotaging photos with location information. Other features are FM radio, 16GB built-in memory and microSD support, 3D graphic chipset module, Bluetooth 2.0 and Wi-fi. Its dimensions are 106.5 x 53.9 x 16.9mm.

Samsung INNOV8 i8510