New Samsung Galaxy Camera headed to AT&T

You all remember the Samsung Galaxy Camera right. The digital camera that runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, has a 4.8-inch HD Super Clear LCD screen, 21x Optical Zoom, and a quad-core 1GHz processor. The Android camera that gives you sharing abilities through all your social networks, shareshot, buddy photo share, AllShare Play and has access to the Google Play Store. Lets not forget the connect ability to share images to your Galaxy S III and upcoming Galaxy Note II. Well, that wondrous little digital camera that we caught a look at during Samsung’s unpacked in Berlin this August, has now been announced for launch with AT&T.

This means that AT&T will be offering up a digital camera to consumers with access to their 4G LTE data coverage. Of course many of us will stick to using our phones, which take some pretty amazing shots all on their own. Still, a full fledged digital camera with Android and mobile network data connections is pretty darn awesome. The real perk here is the 21x optical zoom and 16MP BSI CMOS sensor. Unless I am wrong, that is quite a bit better than anything in today’s smartphones.

“Once again, Samsung has defined a new category of mobile devices and AT&T is leading the way to bring this device to consumers. The Galaxy Camera brings together Samsung’s latest innovations in mobile and optical imaging technologies to provide the first connected camera running on the latest Android platform,” said Dale Sohn, President of Samsung Telecommunications America.

They haven’t released pricing or availability for the Galaxy Camera just yet. With AT&T killing off the subsidized pricing on tablets, we image this to go for full cost and require a data plan. Check out the full press release below.

AT&T FIRST TO LAUNCH GALAXY CAMERA; SAMSUNG DEFINES

NEW CATEGORY WITH 4G CONNECTED CAMERA

 

Samsung Galaxy Camera^TM combines high performance photography and AT&T 4G wireless connectivity to enable seamless sharing across devices and with social media

 

 

DALLAS, OCT. 4, 2012 — AT&T* and Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC (Samsung Mobile)¹Â today announced the Samsung Galaxy Cameraâ„¢ coming to AT&T.  The Galaxy Camera combines high performance photography with Androidâ„¢ 4.1 Jelly Bean and AT&T 4G mobile internet connectivity, resulting in a powerful point and shoot camera with a familiar, intuitive user interface and access to all of your favorite Android applications from the Google Playâ„¢ market.

 

The Galaxy Camera is a perfect fit for those who wish to shoot, edit and share brilliant photographs and video easily and quickly without connecting to a laptop or PC. The Galaxy Camera features a 4.8-inch HD Super Clear LCD screen, boasts a 21x optical zoom lens and a super-bright 16MP BSI CMOS sensor for shooting high-quality images close up and in low light conditions. This device is powered by a quad-core 1 GHz processor for quick and responsive performance ensuring you can capture the shots you want. It also includes powerful features like Smart Pro Mode technology, which allows you to toggle through a series of pre-set options that simplify the processes for taking professional-level images.

 

“Wirelessly enabling Samsung’s Galaxy Camera will create a significant shift in how consumers share and communicate with photos and videos,” said Chris Penrose, senior vice president, AT&T Emerging Devices. “By posting instantly to social networking sites or sending directly to another device, the person behind the lens is essentially offering family and friends the opportunity to share in the moments as they are actually experiencing them. We’re excited that the AT&T wireless network will help enable these opportunities.”

 

“Once again, Samsung has defined a new category of mobile devices and AT&T is leading the way to bring this device to consumers. The Galaxy Camera brings together Samsung’s latest innovations in mobile and optical imaging technologies to provide the first connected camera running on the latest Android platform,” said Dale Sohn, President of Samsung Telecommunications America.

 

In addition to being able to share to social networks and cloud services on the go, consumers can harness the speed and connectivity of AT&T’s wireless network to share images and videos between Galaxy Camera and a range of Galaxyâ„¢ devices including the Galaxy S® III and Galaxy Note® II.

 

The Galaxy Camera is designed with several of the key content sharing features first introduced with the Galaxy S III including:

 

AllShare® Play

• ·   Locate Samsung HDTVs, laptops and other devices on the same Wi-Fi® network that are ready to receive photo and video files. Users can remotely access files from Galaxy Camera with other devices on their home network like a PC or Samsung Smart TVâ„¢.

 

Share Shot

• ·   Automatically send still images taken with the Galaxy Camera to other Galaxy S III, and Galaxy Note devices up to 200 feet away

 

Buddy Photo Share

• ·   Instantly and automatically tags faces of existing device contacts in photos making it easy to share with them.

Pricing for the Galaxy Camera will be announced when it goes on sale in the coming weeks. For more information on AT&T, please visit www.att.com.

*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.

¹Samsung Mobile is the No. 1 mobile phone provider in the United States based upon reported shipment data, according to Strategy Analytics, North America Handset Vendor Marketshare, Q2 2012.

4G when used in relation to Samsung devices refers to the fact that the devices can operate on AT&T’s 4G network.