Samsung has announced the new SCH-M709, a 7 megapixel camera phone that is created to make a huge impact in the marketplace. Seriously, most digital cameras do not have high of a resolution. The key criteria is the quality of the lens and the ccd. If it works as well as it seems, it will be revolutionary cameraphone.

BIOS has some interesting points on this.

Another problem is that digital camera’s zoom capability simply enlarges a section of the original image. A zoom is needed to capture sharp close-ups. The SCH-M709 sports an impressive 3x optical zoom lens, which rivals most entry-level digital cameras.

The SCH-M709 is built for CDMA 2000-1X mobile networks and is designed to look like a mobile phone on one side and a digital camera on the other. The camera phone has a 7-Megapixel camera with a 3x optical zoom and a 5x digital zoom and can take digital still pictures and video. It also has a built-in MP3 player and TV output for viewing images on a larger screen. The phone has a 240×320-pixel LCD screen capable of showing 16 million colors.