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The Samsung INNOV8 is a high-end phone with a 8 megapixel, autofocus camera with dual LED flash. The phone's key features include a 2.8 inch screen, WiFi, 16GB of on board flash memory, optical sensor, integrated GPS, accelerometer sensor, and DNSe audio technology.

Features of the phone

8 megapixel auto focus camera with dual LED flash. Camera functions / modes include Smart Reader, Image Stabilizer, Auto-Panorama Shot, Smile Shot, Blink Shot, Wide Dynamic Range (WDR), and Face Detection. The camera can also capture video at VGA (30 frames per second) and QVGA (120 frames per second) resolutions. There's also on board software for editing images and videos (Movie Maker and Storyboard applications).

Dimensions: 106.5 x 53.9 x 17.2 mm.

2.8 inch, QVGA screen with 16 million colours.

Integrated GPS with support for A-GPS via S60.

Optical sensor, this takes the form of a touch pad (as on laptops) like control in the centre of the D-pad. It can be used to move around the UI or as for 'mouse-like' functionality in the S60 browser.The phone OS is the new Symbian OS V9.3, S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2, which means that you always have the option to download from amongst a myriad of applications available for Symbian mobiles.

16GB of internal flash memory and a microSD card slot support cards up to 16GB in size (SDHC).

Support for HSDPA at 7.2 bps (3.5G) connectivity , quad band GSM, Bluetooth 2.0 (including A2DP support), WiFi and USB 2 (Full-speed). WiFi will enable DNLA (UPnP) support for audio and video.

In video playback supported formats include DivX, H.263, H.264, WMV, and MP4. Videos will also tke advantage of DNSe where applicable.

It comes with 2 embedded games: FIFA 08 (EA) and Asphalt (Gameloft).

The phone's battery should last 24 hours easily with moderate to heavy usage.

The Samsung Innov8 is currently priced at Rs.45,999,