Samsung Electronics would roll out the upgraded version of 5-megapixel phone, which it introduced last October, within the first quarter of next year.

Samsung's next big thing would feature long range camera lens, optical zoom and auto focus functions to better meet the market demand.

Byung-duck, Cho, Executive Vice President of Samsung Electronics forecasts that high definition camera phones will replace low-end digital cameras, per se 2-3megapixel digital cameras, while 4-megapixel or 5-megapixel digital cameras would not be affected by those camera phones.

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I would really love to have a mobile phone with a 3x optical zoom camera. 2 MegaPixel is good enough for normal consumer and the most important part is the quality. We can expect it to be real in these few years ... :)

Read more about 5 Megapixel phone here

http://www.slashphone.com/news/?m=show&id=1019

and its camera photo sample

http://www.slashphone.com/news/?m=show&id=1116