The new Samsung Galaxy NX has been announced in an event in London. Official press release text can be found at Petapixel, Samsungcamera, A first hands-on report at Photocomment, Digitalcamerainfo, dpreview, engadget, digitalcamerareview and at Imaging Resource.
The new NX in short:
The camera has a 20.3-megapixel APS-C sensor with focus phase detection pixels. This means it has a hybrid contrast and phase detection autofocus system. It has a 1/6000s maximum shutter speed and shots 8.6 fps (Frames per second). It has a powerful 1.6GHz quad-core processor with 2GB or RAM, and runs Android Jelly Bean (4.2.2) operating system. What’s huge is the 4.8-inch touch panel, and the same NX20 viewfinder. But the important part is that this camera has everything what a Samsung smartphone has. Full connectivity (even LTE) and APP support and so on. Price is yet unknown while release is sometimes in summer.
Some said this is a smartphone with a huge camera on it 🙂
Here is a hands-on vide made by Imaging Resource:
You like the cam?
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Still the most disappointing camera announced so far, even though I expected it with my heart in my mouth. So they did what no one had the balls to do (not Sony, not Panasonic, not Olympus): they thrown out all the manual controls in favor of a touch screen … although I do love the idea of a bigger screen but seriously: no more buttons for ISO, AF, Metering, WB or even those “useful” color profiles ? I’m very disappointed … about this much: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9gC1GiSDDA
The quad processor and 3G/4G/Android knocks the competition into the last century.
But ergonomics looks like a #fail: right hand holds camera (and operates shutter) and left-hand holds lens and operates touch screen. That’s going to feel clumsy. Why release what looks like a prototype.
Marrying a fixed 4.8 touch screen with an EVF is going to require a search for a new form factor rather than seconding an SLR body.
Perhaps a design w/o an EVF and held by both hands and operated by thumbs?
Will this cause Olympus/Sony to up their game regarding their processors and software development efforts? I hope so and, for that reason only, welcome this release.
Quad processor means nothing if it has to run bloatware like Android. Most run an absolute bare-bones linux with a simple UI on top. Perfect for embedded systems! And yes, it is possible to ‘open up’ a camera OS without using rubbish distros like Android.
Hahaha the ‘Quad Core processor that knocks the competition into the next century’ is SO good, that the Galaxy NX has a dedicated image processor… As found in their other NX series. It is all specs with you people. Quad core or not, that thing would BARELY handle a single RAW file (let alone many per second) if it wasn’t for the ‘slow’ but dedicated image processor.
Looking good for a first effort! They certainly need more top panel physical controls / dials, not to mention the app support. Battery life might also be an issue depending on how heavily you use apps.
There’s also no info on video bit-rate or EVF resolution.
I’m happy I bought a nx300 2 months ago, since I don’t like the form factor of this camera. Bulky and plasticky.
Nx300 has the same hw, runs on tizen and is almost half as big. If only it had an evf in a corner….
As you relentlessly remind us…
finally it’s here, the camera that can receive calls and can browse the internet….
what a joke, it only has a micro sd slot very slow.
“You like the cam?”
No.
Fade in-out menus… Does samsung feel their system is so fast that they need to slow it down?
According to IR above, viewfinder is 800×600, so that’ll be yet another evf with 1.44 million dots. Guess I’ll look forward to seeing what the NEX 7 has to offer, as this one’s a bust. If Samsung released an NX300 with 2 MP+ EVF… I guess I can only dream.
coreean retards, what a waste of money to develop this type of “camera”, they where on o good path with nx10-nx20 and now this.
What a trainwreck of a camera. They just made a camera that makes everything more confusing. There’s Android bloatware, malware through Android apps, just a bunch of junk that takes away from photography.
This is one of the few cameras I would not even want to try out. And apparently you can even pay for another monthly cellular data plan…oh joy.
This is as dumb of an idea as combining a toaster with an alarm clock in one device.
so gangnam style,.
so basically the camera menu is buried inside touchscreen interface,.is not camera for an old school people
@ovidiu: your avatar indicates that you shoot with one hand at your lens.. doing that with the GN120 will allow you to press the iFN Button as on any NX so far, rotate the ring to change ISO, WB, Aperture, Shutter, EVF without ever taking the eye of the Eye level viewfinder.
Where you do have your index finger on your avatar, you will find a combined push&rotate button, that allows you to access the extended FN Menue as currently on any NX so that you can select there drive mode, flash, metering, AF and other extended options.
Yes, to view your emails you need to use the touch screen but for the CameraOS part, no
User interface is such a joke. Everything goes through touch-based UI, even selection of primary settings like aperture, shutter speed etc. Old manual film camera is faster to shoot than this piece of technological wonder.
WiFi & ANDROID system rocks! but let’s see its other features & a full review of Samsung Galaxy NX @ here I found the most complete review of this nice camera :
http://t.co/cC75eZ01pc