Samsung has finally released the ST5500 and ST5000 which were introduced in CES this year.

The ST5000 series comes with 3 colors such as black, orange, and grey. It has 103.8 X 58.3 X 19.6mm of size, 31-217mm focal length optical 7x zoom F3.3-5.5 Schneider Lens, 14.2M effective pixels, Smart Auto 2.0 for both images and videos, and HDMI output. The difference between 2 models is the 3.7” touch AMOLED, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, and DLNA of the ST5500 which the ST5000 has the 3.5” touch TFT LCD without the wireless communication technology. That’s why this review would focus on the ST5500.

Elegant Full Touch Camera, Samsung ST5500/ST5000

Checking with AMOLED and Transferring with Wi-Fi

Samsung (www.samsungimaging.com) has released the ST5500/5000. It’s the highest level camera among the ST series concentrating on stylish design and powerful performance, and after the ST1000, the ST5500 has adopted Wi-Fi secondly. In order to offer more practical cameras, the ST5500/5000 has a large and high grade display. Considering the strategy of Samsung ‘Watching cell phone’, the ST5500/5000 is the beginning of ‘Watching camera’, I think.

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ST series with Design, Style, Lens, and Comfortable

Looking at the cameras from Samsung in 2010, design, comfortable functions, and great lenses are remarkable. Cameras become more camera-like, and various functions, design get better. Samsung has really great models in 2010 such as high performance WB series, EX1 for professionals, economic ES, and more practical PL. Among them, the ST series is a model with more stylish design, and as a representative premium compact camera with the front display, Bluetooth, stylish design, and great lens performance, it makes people want to have it. Let’s meet the ST5500/ST5000.

The performance of digital cameras get higher and higher, each makers focus on the design or additional functions when releasing a product. (Of course, the image quality is the most important in digital cameras. However, recent cameras have good image quality, makers need to concentrate on other things to get an attention from users such as the design and functions.)

The Samsung ST5500 and ST5000 I’m reviewing has a stylish design, powerful performance, and various functions, so will be very popular from those who want to have a high level digital camera. (I already confirmed that the ST5500 has a lot of great functions.)

It’s was so different from previous cameras. Let’s take a closer look through the test.