Better than Sony Ericsson 8.1 megapixel phone? Samsung has just launched the Inner Zoom SCH-W480 slider phone in Korea. The slider phone is shaped like a digital camera, it comes with a 5-megapixel CCD camera, together with a 3x optical inner zoom lens.

With a Inner Zoom lens design, the camera lens do not extend out and is able to keep the phone thickness minimum. It also supports auto-focus and face detection. Other than a nice optical zoom camera lens, it can also do  7.2 Mbps HSDPA, WCDMA/GSM global roaming, Bluetooth, media player and accept microSD memory card.

The Inner Zoom SCH-W480 will be available at about 580 USD. More photos at next page.