Samsung rolls out Galaxy K Zoom


BANGALORE: Samsung releases its first phone in the K series, the Samsung Galaxy Zoom.  This phone has advanced camera features and offers quality Images.

Samsung Galaxy K Zoom aims at catering to the needs of active social media users who are constantly uploading their Images on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. It features a timer which enables users to take selfies, or photos of themselves, with the back camera using a timer  

The new Galaxy K zoom empowers users to effortlessly capture and share their most important everyday moments in stunning clarity, with the convenience and connectedness of a Galaxy Smartphone, for a unique, all-in-one mobile experience. With selfies or Self-portrayed Images become a trend these days this Smartphone offers an Auto-timer which is especially for selfies. Samsung also said that they have tied up with twitter so that the vine app is preloaded in the phone. This will allow Twitter users to upload their photos,” said Sun Hong Lim the senior vice president of mobile communication business Samsung Electronics

The highlight of Samsung Galaxy K Zoom is its refracting lens which has 10 times optical zoom, which permits users to take picture of distant objects quickly, It further has an image stabilizer which helps in taking sharper images, It comes with 20.7 Megapixel BSI CMOS sensor camera which captures more light making it ideal for low light images, records full HD videos at 60 Frames Per Second (FPS) and further has Smile and blink detector

Galaxy K zoom offers a super AMOLED screen which has a resolution of 720P (1280 x 720), a 2 GB RAM, 8 GB internal memory (expandable), up to 64 GB SD card slot, a Hexa core EXYNOS (1.3 GHz quad core + 1.7 GHz dual core ) processor and a 2430 mAh battery. Galaxy K Zoom runs on Android 4.4 Kitakat. Samsung Galaxy K has a thinner design compared to the Galaxy S4 Zoom, it is 20.2 MM thin, has a dimpled back like the Samsung galaxy S5 and weighs about 200 Grams.

This phone will be released in three colors charcoal Black, electric Blue and shimmering white. Its wireless connectivity options are 4G LTE radio, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC and GPS. However the Cost and Availability of the phone have not yet been announced.