Today LG announced that their successful 5 megapixel cameraphone Viewty has hit the 5 million units mark. Now, 14 months after its market release, the full touch-based Viewty has conquered some 350,000 pockets in its home country, while the rest 4,650,000 devices have spread over Europe and the rest of Asia.

LG seem to be proud of the success of their first widely available cameraphone - the LG KU990 Viewty.

The 5 megapixel device features 3-inch TFT touch display, xenon flash, VGA@30fps and high-speed QVGA video recording. Despite some camera and flash issues the gadget has obviously earned enough fans to hit the 5 million mark.

It has been 14 months since the LG Viewty premiere. The handset price today (a tad over 200 euro) is rather reasonable and that may be one of the reasons for its continuing success. The more affordable price has moved the Viewty to a lower market segment where its specs still seem rather attractive.

To celebrate the event LG will start two new color lines of Viewty. Besides the well known black, dark silver, purple, red and pink versions, the market will also enjoy the new light blue and light silver alternatives. It seems LG may as well be aiming for another million or two.

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As it seems Samsung have a really nice cameraphone in store for all of us, due in the beginning of 2009. The S8300 has obviously slipped under someone's door, as it's not officially announced yet.

Only 12.8mm thick, the Samsung S8300 has an absolutely massive widescreen OLED display, probably the largest one we've seen to date, and the fact that it's a touchscreen, makes it that much sweeter.

The S8300 specs sheet is further pumped up by an 8 megapixel camera with auto focus, a GPS receiver, HSDPA and DivX video support. Judging from the interface shots, the handset doesn't seem to be a smartphone, but instead is running on the Samsung's proprietary TouchWiz feature phone interface, well known from the Samsung Pixon for example.

Upcoming Samsung S8300 looks nice

Among its other niceties are FM radio with RDS, Bluetooth 2.1, and a microSD card slot. It's a long list.

Unfortunately, as it's evident from the photos the 8 megapixel camera is not equipped with a xenon flash. There's only LED instead that's best used as video light. There's no mention of Wi-Fi functionality either.

Samsung S8300

As you may guess, there is no official info about the device yet, however word is out that it should be available by March 2009.

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