CHAMELEON-like smart phones that do a more than passable impression of other digital devices are proving a big hit at the annual CeBit electronics conference in Hannover, Germany, this week.
Samsung is promoting its SCH-S250, whose built-in 7-megapixel digital camera offers higher resolution than many dedicated cameras. Keen photographers will appreciate its 3x optical zoom, 5x digital zoom and 16-million-colour screen display. The handset can even be fitted with a compact telephoto lens.
Another Samsung offering, the SGH-i300, takes on the digital music players. Packing in 3 gigabytes of hard-disc space for storing thousands of music and video files, the device runs the latest digital media software, Windows Mobile 2005, and supports a plethora of file formats, including MP3, AAC, MPEG-4 and Ogg Vorbis.
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A third Samsung phone is not to be sneezed at either. The SCH-869 comes coated in antibacterial paint to cut the odds of transmitting germs if you lend it to someone else.
