The marketing campaign takes life starting next week (Nov in UK. Launch of the phone is a little bit of a mystery as we hear to many voices announcing the launch date. Earlier the launch date was Mid-October then End of October and now Mid-November is the due date.

Phones4u has a page up talking about Samsung M8800 Pixon where you can buy it from, however, when you try to buy the phone the page tells you that the phone is due launch mid-November.

We reviewed Samsung Pixon features and just by the looks of it, these features make the phone well worth the wait. Read more about Samsung Pixon here.

Our readers from UK can buy Samsung M8800 Pixon from here once the phone is launched. In the meanwhile look forward to the ads in TV and other forms of media; I am actually waiting to see what they spent £4.5m on.

Samsung

Pixon M8800 offers a 3.2 inches touch screen which complements its 8 megapixel camera and makes it an idle companion for clicking pictures and watching movies on the go. The phone is expected to come in 8 and 16 GB storage space and an additional space of 8 GB can be added using a microSD card.

The camera has auto focus, image stabilization and face recognition which has blink and smile detection. M8800 has an inbuilt GPS which geo-tags the pictures and videos taken using the phone camera.

Samsungs Pixon also offers HSDPA option which lets you play media content on HSDPA compatible TV’s, Computers and any other HSDPA compatible appliances. That’s not all, this phone also offers 3G for hi-speed internet connectivity which lets you stay connected with your e-mail and other online services at all times.

Price of the phone is expected to be around $US 800 and will be available at stores by 2nd of October. If only this phone had a sliding QWERTY keyboard like the one on G1 and a WiFi support, it would have been one of the top 3 phones available in the market.

Here is a quick run-down of the features offered by the phone.

• Built-in GPS receiver
• Quad-band GSM, tri-band HSDPA
• 107.9×54.6×14.9mm, 110 g
• 3.2-inch touch screen display (240 x 400 pixels)
• 8 megapixel camera, auto focus, face recognition with smile detection and blink detection, WDR (wide dynamic range), ASR (advanced shake reduction), GPS geotagging, ISO 1600, WVGA (720×480 pixels) and VGA (640 x 480 pixels) @30fps video recording
• Accelerometer
• DivX playback
• FM radio with RDS
• microSD card slot
• Bluetooth
• Landscape virtual QWERTY keyboard
• Handwriting recognition
• ShoZu integration – direct image and video upload
• Office document viewer

Watch the video to see its functionalities in action.