For quite a while now, 5 megapixels has been the ceiling for mass-market cameraphones. But that has all changed with a flurry of mobiles from Sony Ericsson and LG offering a staggering 8 megapixels. Samsung is now in this select group with its new slider phone, the i8510.

Now, you won't get anywhere near the quality of image from this phone that you would from a good, dedicated digital camera offering the same megapixel count, but with that noted the camera is reasonable.

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There is a dual LED flash (it is disappointing that it is not Xenon) but no optical zoom. The macro mode proved to be good during testing, but to counter that we found quite a lot of shutter lag, which made taking reasonable photographs of moving subjects particularly challenging.

The camera sports smile detection, face detection and blink detection and there is a superb panorama mode in which you move the phone around while it shoots a sequence of photos automatically. You can also geo-tag images.