K-Touch 8 Megapixel Camera Phone from Beijing Tianyu

Is these a phone or camera? One of the famous mobile phone maker in China, Beijing Tianyu Communication Equipment has just announced their In-Xiang series (K-Touch) camera phone. First three models of the series has been introduced, which all powered by 7 and 8 megapixel camera module and 3x optical zoom capability. The company claims to have added the phone functionality into the digital camera, but not adding a camera functionality to the mobile phone.



Announced last week in China, the new K-Touch C800 and C280 are powered by a 8 megapixel CCD camera module, the K-Touch C700 is using a 7 megapixel CCD camera module instead. While there is no reviews available to confirm the photo quality yet, the camera phones is just like your digital camera with 3x optical zoom, Xenon flash, image stabilizer, face recognition and support up to 1600 ISO sensitivity.

It looks like the phones are using a seperate processor or software to handle the photo taking. The K-Touch C800 and C280 have 2 microSD card slot, both your camera photos and phones data are stored in seperate memory card. When you want to add your photos to your mms or email, there is no way for you to access the camera memory card. Basically to do that you will have to swap the memory card into the phone memory card slot, pretty troublesome design I would say.

Check out the phone specification and photos below for now before we see the real photo sample from these models.


K-Touch C800 Specification

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Network: GSM Dualband 900/1800 MHz
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GPRS
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Dimension: 123 x 56 x 21 mm
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Display: 2.8-inch 256k colors TFT (240 x 320) Touch Screen
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8 megapixel CCD camera with 3x optical zoom, auto focus, Xenon Flash
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Image stabilizer
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Dual microSD card slot
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MP3, WAV, AMR, WMA, AAC, AAC+ player
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Java
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Bluetooth
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Battery: 1300 mAh
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Up to 10 hours talk time
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Up to 14 days standby time