Casio's camera-phone debuts with world's first WVGA OLED display

Damian Koh | Oct 28, 2008

Casio Exilim W63CA 8-megapixel camera-phone with WVGA OLED display.

We already have the Cyber-shot-branded Sony Ericssons, Carl Zeiss lenses on Nokia phones and, more recently, Kodak's imaging know-how in the Motorola ZINE ZN5. Now, Casio's getting into the game with its 8.1-megapixel Exilim W63CA camera-phone, too. In fact, the W63CA could pass off as a digital camera once the numeric keypad is hidden from view. As you can see from the pictures, the 3.1-inch wide-VGA (800 x 480) OLED display swivels 180 degrees and snaps back to cover the whole of the keypad. The result is an uncanny resemblance to a dedicated digital camera.

According to the literature, the W63CA is equipped with a mobile version of the Exilim image-processing engine, a six-axis image stabilizer, nine-point autofocus capability and 28mm wide-angle lens. You can also record VGA movies at 30fps, watch TV via One-Seg (only in Japan), output pictures and videos to a TV using a cable (sold separately) and translate Japanese text (using the camera) into English which will be read out to you directly from the phone. There's no word on pricing and availability, but the CDMA phone will be sold by KDDI Corporation. Though that shouldn't stop you from using the handset outside of Japan with its support for Global Passport CDMA, which allows you to use the phone in 21 countries.

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ferdiei

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ferdiei says...
and with OLED? that's nice! but where's the GSM version Casio? perhaps you're ditching the Exilim digicam that took the early credit for slimness but misses the buyers' craving for pic quality & performance...so test it in Japan first?

Oct 29, 2008 21:28

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FishSM says...
Cant wait for its review on asiacnet. Wish LG have the same thing too. Camera equiped with phone. Surely quality be better than current camera-phone?

Oct 30, 2008 13:16

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