Samsung has announced the latest member in its i-Series family, the i8. The i8 is a sleek and stylish 8-megapixel camera with Samsung's Portable Media Player technology, which gives users the ability to enjoy movies, videos, and music on the move. Measuring just 3.5x2.3x0.8 inches, the pocket-sized i8 has a photosensitivity of ISO 1600 making even low-light pictures come out sharp and clear. It also has Digital Image Stabilization to minimize hand-shake errors and a nonprotruding 3x optical zoom bringing those long shots much more closer with Face Detection and Auto Red-Eye Fix aiding in the quality of pictures. The Function Description feature automatically provides a easy-to-understand description of each setting while scrolling through menus, very helpful for amateur and aspiring shooters. With Multi-Slide Show, users can watch their images scroll to the camera's preloaded music or their own favorite MP3s.

Moving to its PMP functions, the i8 can play movies and music with a 2.5 mm jack provided for audio-out. SRS 3D acoustic technology is another new feature not commonly found even on PMPs. This combined with auto-adjusting 2.7-inch LCD screen makes watching movies or photos a pleasure. The movies and music can be converted from a wide variety of formats (AVI, MPEG, MOV, WMV, ASF, MP3, WAV) with the included Digimax Converter software.

The Samsung i8 will be available in February at a MSRP of $299.