If previous leaks had us fairly convinced Samsung's Galaxy S 4 Zoom cameraphone was a real device, this latest one has us certain. A Russian website has published what can only be described as a full review of the Zoom,The camera is said to pack a 16-megapixel sensor and is capable of 10x optical zoom, performed by rotating a ring that runs around the lens; this ring is also used to launch the camera mode. A piece of glass sits flush with the end of the lens for dust protection. Inside, the Zoom is similar to the S 4 Mini, running a dual-core 1.5GHz Exynos processor, 1.5GB of RAM and eight gigs of internal storage (naturally, there's a microSD slot for boosting that). Facing you is a 4.3-inch 960 x 540 display showing Android 4.2.2 (with a TouchWiz coating, of course), a token 1.9-megapixel front-facing camera, and powering the whole thing is a huge 2,330mAh removable battery. For connection and communication, you've got WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC and the increasingly popular addition of an IR blaster, but it doesn't appear that LTE was supported on the Russian model.
The camera's default shooting mode is 16:9 at 12-megapixels, but obviously there are tons of settings to tweak and 26 different pre-prepared camera modes. From the raft sample pictures available, and they look pretty good on the whole. The Zoom is also comes with some new photography apps installed that make use of the camera. hi-tech.mail.ru reports that it's scheduled to launch in July at a cost of 19,990 rubles, or around $618 by conversion. While we've been writing this, Samsung's gone and announced the thing, but it's still worth heading to the source and checking out the review, with tons more sample shots and impressions. We've also put another shot of the cameraphone and our favorite sample image from the review after the break.
[Thanks, Max]
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