NewGen Mega-X, camcorder-style phone
This unusual phone from relative newcomer Newgen and features a 1.3 megapixel camera, 128MB of built-in storage and a 1.8" colour LCD screen. With the screen closed the phone is a decent music player, with useful external music playback buttons, a small external screen for track information, and decent headphones. With the screen open and rotated this phone follows the Nokia N90 lead and resembles a traditional digital video camera, albeit with a lowly 4x digital zoom and basic settings. The final position is with the screen open and un-rotated, where the phone functions are revealed in a futuristic-organic asymmetrical form factor. The dualband phone boasts 2.5 hours of talk time.
The Mega-X is equipped with a 45-degree 1.3 mega-pixel camera at the side to capture both stills and videos. The quick access camera button snaps your photos or videos in a whiz. The camera has a 4x digital zoom effect, various photography environment (Auto, Cloudy, Indoor, Sunny and Tungsten), effect ( Normal, Black & White, Sepia, Negative, Emboss, Sketch) and flash for your ideal shot. The Mega-X can also take up to 16 sequential shots to ensure that no action is missed out. You can also take a self photo by simply toggling between the main LCD to the sub LCD display.
The Mega-X is turned into a mini camcorder with a gentle twist of the LCD display panel. It can record up to 90 minutes of quality video. The phone is also a media player with its integrated MP3 and MPEG4 player.
Features like voice recorder and various personal-information-management (PIM) features such as, alarm, calculator, world time, stop watch, currency converter, schedule are included. The Mega-X will be available this month.
