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In terms of general usability this is my favourite 8-megapixel handset to date. The Tocco was a super mobile phone, and the Pixon brings it to new heights. Read full review

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By Sandra Vogel
Reviewed 21 November 2008
Updated 05 February 2011

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Samsung Pixon (M8800) details

Value: 9/10
Usability: 9/10
Features: 9/10
Design: 9/10
Overall: 9/10

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Samsung

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Thomas C

6:53 PM on 21 November, 2008

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This reveiw falls short of usual high quality TR reviews, its is extreamly thin on details... there is no mention of the phones web browser/touch screen keyboard/ email client capabilities/ mapping software etc etc. There are also no comparisons to other touch screen handsets on the market such as the iphone/blackberry storm etc. On top of all this to give such poor quality review a TR Recommened Badge seems very strange. TR must have some QA proceudures in place... this one like a few other mobile reviews in the past has slipped through the net! Come on guys, get the mobile reviews up to scratch, the E71 review was excellent!

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1:49 PM on 25 November, 2008

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I would have to agree with that. Not what I'm used to from TR.

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Outo

12:26 PM on 1 December, 2008

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I work offshore and quite often am on the extreme range for most phones. Anybody know what the call quality is like and how good the Pixon signal reception is?

My previous Samsung phones couldn't get as good a reception as even the cheapest Nokia at extreme range.

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soulrider

10:28 AM on 20 December, 2008

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This looks to be a great phone/multiuse gadget but I feel Samsung have missed the boatby not adding WiFi connection to its list of features.

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PaulNicolson

8:08 AM on 7 January, 2009

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Does it do email, how does the browser scale pages, like the iphone ?

When surfing how long does the charge last, better than the iphone or just as bad.

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Carlito79

12:20 PM on 29 January, 2009

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I've had this phone for a week and I really like it but it has a poor battery life as I guess most phones of this spec have. The browser doesn't scale like the iPhone but the view does flip when you put the handset horizontally. Yes it has email. I've yet to find any mapping software which would've been good.

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jewie404

3:00 AM on 6 February, 2009

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Now, I’ve got one recently and was having rather high expectations to use it as my PIM gadget, the ultimate device for all my contacts, notes, schedules and emails. My advice is don’t. Reading on all the specifications, GPS, 8 megapixels autofocus camera and all, it was a phone good on paper for a very good price compared with the others. The plus side is that the camera is so full of functions, you will have heaps of fun toying around with advance features like face detection, smile shots and such. That’s all there is to this phone, a very powerful camera system.

GeoTagging of photos, I took 2 weeks to figure it out. Firstly you have to turn on the GeoTagging feature in the camera settings. And by accident I discovered GeoTagging does work. Only after turning on the camera for 3 minutes or so before I noticed the satellite dish icon showed a 2 bar stable status and stayed that way. If the icon is in a transition state, it means the GPS receiver is still trying to log on to the GPS signals. One does really need to hold the phone high, run around a little and try all sorts of holding the phones in all imaginable orientation just to get GPS logged on. If a picture is successfully tagged, you can see the long-lat information via the info functions while browsing photos. Loading the image into Picassa/Google Earth is also another way to know if your pictures had been tagged. When you have successfully tagged pictures (one out of 15 times), it could be quite fun to view them in Google Erath. Bringing GPS features further, using Google Maps, just waiting for GPS to logon while driving is a nightmare. It is especially a big pain in my *** when near critical traffic junctions, the blue dot remained very still on the screen as the Pixon had lost it GPS signal. Which means, Samsung did a very bad job here, on this GPS thingy. They could have done better.

What about the organizer? One will orgas with frustration just to make it working. The great Samsung New PC Studio is truly a software written just to corrupt your Outlook. I ended up with 800 over double entries in my contact list (both outlook and in Pixon) and all my calendar schedules were squeezed into one single day after a synch. I had to spend one whole day just to restore all my schedules and contacts manually in my Outlook after the synch. I never want to use this poorly written and untested software ever again. No way could one trust Samsung on this one.

Samsung, they did a nice product and that’s about it. Cosmetically appealing, but functionally, very annoying. It’s more of a phone for the camera and that is the only good thing about it. Don’t expect good software skills from Koreans. This product seemed rushed into the market with appealing paper specs to compete with others, but without much sensible functional testing. Use this only as a fashion and camera gadget. Pixon - a partially functioning phone guarantee to drive you mad if you use it for more then a phone (especially GPS).

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6:19 PM on 11 February, 2009

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@Jewie404: I can't comment on the Pixon, but your statement " Don&#8217;t expect good software skills from Koreans" seems somewhat unfair. My favourite 2 software Media Players have been Korean (Sasami2k and The KMPlayer), so some of them do know how to program...

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malcolm

10:03 AM on 24 February, 2009

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I bought the M8800 recently and untill now it has served me well. however my only uery os regarding contact vieweing. when i receive a message the number appears on my screen but not the name of my contact; which obviously hassles all the time since i would not know who would have sent me that message. unfortunately it is a very annoying situation and i would really appreciate it if someone could help me with this or where I can go to fix this pls. thanks a lot. you can send an e-mail on melkju_l_@hotmail.com tx again

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MIKEBACON

12:58 PM on 17 March, 2009

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i recently bought a pixon, i think its way over rated except the camera (which is in my opinion its only selling point). the camera is good no doubt. with no WiFi its lacking in appeal and the menus and functions are alreay boring, for the fact can't change the theme only the wall paper on the main screen, the games are only trials you have to buy them to play them properly and the widgets are kind of pointless considering most of the main features have specially made function buttons to take you straight that app. Camera great! phone not so good! i would prefer the Nokia 5800 as it more stylish in menu design, colours and general easiness to use.

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