Panasonic Lumix – Redefines The Word “Camera-phone” - Android Life: An Android Community Blog

If you’re like me, you’re an avid user of the camera on your phone. You don’t want to have to carry around an SLR all day, so we just rely on having a decent camera on our phones. Well, Panasonic has taken that to a whole new level with their newest device which I like to call, “The phone-camera.” The Lumix Phone is a 13.2 mega-pixel snapshot machine which just so happens to run Android 2.3 as well.

This device has a 4″ qHD screen, waterproof body, and a dual-core OMAP processor with plenty of other noteworthy specs.

Android 2.3

4-inch QHD LCD screen with 960×540 resolution

13.2MP CMOS Lumix sensor with “Mobile Venus Engine“

waterproof body (IPX5/7)

TI OMAP4430 dual-core CPU (1GHz)

compatible with SoftBank’s “Ultra Speed” high-speed data communication service (max. 21Mbps)

microSDHC card slot

IEEE802.11b/g/n Wifi

Bluetooth 2.1+EDR

infrared connection

e-wallet function

digital TV tuner

W-CDMA, GSM

size: 64×123×9.8mm weight: 128g

No word yet from Panasonic on pricing or if it will ever come to the US, but we can hope. And how about a nice little shade of pink?

Via: Phandroid, TechCrunch

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This would be awesome.
Synapticrecord

verizon??4g???
Synapticrecord

Lol nvm…misssed the “softbank” part:-P
Anonymous

Waterproof body?
Anonymous

Great specs on the phone, the body could be improved a bit, but for the camera, I would be willing to sacrifice aesthetics to a degree
Guy_serious

I doubt we’ll see this in the US unless panasonic somehow strikes a major deal with a carrier, and even then they’ll probably redesign the whole thing
Mr.joe

Japan always gets cool phones!
Jvrcb17

Did I just read in the specs that I can shower while taking pictures?? I would get my wife into this really quick. hahaha
mike aim

we’d get it with an 8mp camera….water resistant….and a single core…because the carriers wanna make it for as cheap as possible…sell it for as much, then move on
Tony Allen

We won’t get it at all.. There are so many phones in Asia that’d blow our minds, we never see any of them.
Bart Welter-FPSA

Great idea!! The Lumix is a great camera with
glass(lens) from LEICA; to add a phone to it
would be like icing on a cake- as long as
the phone “worked”1/2 as well as the original
Camera. And the price was in line with the
latest droid offering. For example; I just
purchased a DROID CHARGE For $305.00
(HAD DROIDX) Just for the Speed of the
4LTE network, so I don’t feel that the $350-
450.00 range would be out of line.
Btw, as a Professional photographer, I know
how very expensive any thing connected to
LEICA in any way, shape or form is.
So I do not see this phone coming in for
less than$600.00 or more/ Or at all!
Hell; I would buy one in a flash!
Anonymous

Digital TV Tuner? WTF?
Anonymous

Its mind-blowing how many unbelievably fantastic phones Japan has that the rest of the world never gets to see. The Sharp Aquos series, this, the Dell Streak Pro 101DL..
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I want the pink one!!!!!! lol
Rob w.

That would be the ideal phone for me. I take lots of pics & would find owning a true camera phone really convenient. If it has a hardware keyboard, I would be in heaven.
http://profiles.google.com/crazyrunner33 David Flower

This is just becoming a megapixel war, just because a camera has more megapixels doesn’t mean it will take better pictures. The more pixels on a small sensor will just create more noise. What I would like to see is a larger sensor within reasonable size for a phone with some high quality glass with a large aperture.

From the looks of it in the pictures it has an maximum aperture of 2.4 – 3.7, compared to the N9 which has a maximum aperture of 2.2 and only 8 megapixels. I’m guessing the N9 will produce a cleaner photo since it will most likely create less noise and it can let in more light which will allow you to have a higher shutter speed and less worry about motion blur from hand held, unless if you carry a tripod and the phone has a tripod mount. Keep in mind you can blow up an 8 megapixel picture and not lose quality on a 20×30 picture, if you want to print and frame a picture that big you should look at a large sensor DSLR.

Personally if I could have any camera on my phone I’d like the 5 megapixel sensor and lens from the GoPro Hero, the low megapixel count leads along with the 2.8 aperture leads to excellent low light performance at a low cost. The wide angle lens also brings infinity focus to a few inches, so there’s no need for a focus system, everything is in focus. This is the same camera that is used for a lot of in car cameras and sometimes on the Deadliest Catch for shots like the anchor going in the water.

Rant off.
Anonymous

I already have a tablet and a laptop; I would get this as my phone in a heartbeat. The one thing I constantly forget to bring along with me is a good camera, but I never forget my phone.
http://fujibayashi.jp/ Gasai Yuno

Going to get one in December when I’m back home, I guess.

Though the R&D guys could’ve just given me one for free… I’m going to make them hate the day they didn’t tell me about this one.