The Samsung Pixon12 promises to be a fantastic camera phone for two reasons — 28mm wide angle lens and Xenon flash. When Samsung released the Pixon last year, I was impressed by its lightweight estate and decent camera. Samsung took it a step higher not really because of the megapixel count or the autotracking focus — but the damn good flash that goes side by side wide shooting angles allowing you to capture more. I guess the in thing today are wide lenses for camera phones and Samsung is no stranger to this as they’ve been rolling out 28mm lenses onto their digicam lines.

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Although similar to the Nokia N82 from several months ago because of Xenon flash, the SE Satio is Sony Ericsson’s own version of a powerful night camera because of the aforementioned flash feature. This is the new line of Sony Ericsson phones, noted with the shift away from the numerical naming convention to proper nouns.

Sadly, the SE Satio does not come with built in WiFi. It makes up for this with the 12MP camera, face detection, image stabilizer, and of course, the really awesome Xenon flash that takes great photos at night.

[image source from SE Global]

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Sony Ericsson is furthering their Cybershot line of camera phones with a bumped up megapixel count and Xenon flash. I swear by Xenon flash – it’s terrific for night shots and captures good quality images for a camera phone. The Sony Ericsson C905 comes with a 8.1MP camera, auto focus, Best Pic feature (takes many consecutive shots and you choose the best), 160MB of internal memory, memory card expansion, HSDPA, and yeah, Xenon flash!

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Last December, I had written about how I accepted the role to become a Nokia Ambassador for the duration of four months. All the details about it are written here so that I don’t need to expound on this further. Fact of the matter is that one of the primary – if not the only function of an ambassador is to populate a website called Nokia Soul of the Night. There was no money involved and the role of the ambassador is actually very lax as compared to say, a product endorser (brand ambassador is not equal to brand endorser).

I had initially decided to keep all thoughts of my ambassadorship in my personal blog but I’m making an exception for this one post as it is relatively breaking news.

What it basically is: Soul of the Night is a website that allows anybody to upload photos and tag them according to location in several countries in Asia including the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. The site is meant to promote the “soul” of the night by promoting the night life in these countries. It is also a way of showing off the Nokia N82’s Xenon flash capabilities – the camera is supposed to take really good night shots thanks to the flash – and yeah, it delivers.

I do wish though that aside from tags and labels, the site developers should have included a comments section which in turn promotes community building. Comments truly help follow through the community building effort because it is what really promotes conversation in the photos people upload. Now that it is open to the public, I assume that anyone can register and upload their own night shots. I tried uploading shots not taken at night and they were screened after a few days.

What are your opinions about such a campaign? Have you seen anything similar to this done in the past?

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