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If you live in the Baltimore area, you can buy the XOHM hardware, sign up for Internet service and enjoy faster connection speeds. The home Internet services costs $25/month, the mobile service costs $30/month and you can pay $10 for a single day of “On-the-Go” access.

You can use more than one device as well with the Pick 2 for Life plan that makes is so 2 WiMax devices can be used without a contract for just $50 a month. It’s about time 4G started sweeping the nation. And while it might be just localized to a few cities at this point, it’s bound to expand like mad.

Rumors about the Samsung Pixon were popping up toward the end of last week, but now we’ve got our hands on the official information. The Pixon was announced today and it is to feature a much talked about 8-megapixel camera.

Specs include a 3.2-inch 240 x 400 WQVGA touchscreen, 7.2Mbps HSDPA, TouchWiz OS, a photo browser with accelerometer screen rotation, a media player, video capture, Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0 and an internal storage of 200MB which is expandable with microSD cards.

But the real highlight here is the 8-megapixel camera which is set to have wide dynamic range, face detection, advanced shake reduction and smile shot. France is expected to get the Pixon sometime in October, though no release dates are set in stone yet. Price at the moment is also unknown.

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All is well in the land of 8 megapixels today. Or, at least, it would seem that way. After just talking about the Samsung Pixon, which was announced today, this image of the LG KC780 crossed my screen. Yes, this one has 8-megapixels, too.

Photographers can rejoice, because there will soon be many more camera phone options on the market that give you a chance to take a decent shot when out and about. The LG KC780 is dubbed “the slimmest 8MP to date” by LG and that very well may be true. However, Samsung claims something similar about their Pixon device calling it “the slimmest full-touch 8MP.”

In the end, both LG and Samsung could be right! However, we won’t know for certain until we get our hands on the full specs for KC780. we do know that it will likely offer quad-band GSM support and limited touchscreen features. 30fps video recording is also expected.

Sagem is coming back to the mobile phone market in a big way. They’ve just revealed the P’9522, created in collaboration with Porsche Design, and it’s seriously high-end.

The phone is carved from aluminum and has a 2.8-inch touch screen made from mineral glass. With a 5-megapixel camera, WiFi, GPS, a microSD fingerprint reader and more, this phone is set to handle the competition.

The interface and software are pretty impressive on this latest Sagem model and it uses a Java engine called Esmertec to load up third-party applications. With a mapping app, Opera, and Openwave for messaging, you’re pretty well set with the P’9522, however, it will cost 600 euros when launched next month.

The Samsung M8800, or the Bresson, or the Pixon was announced without much fanfare. This is to be the second 8-megapixel offering from Samsung coming after the i8510 INNOV8.

While not a smartphone, the M8800 does possess a 3.2-inch touchscreen display which is sure to turn some heads. There are widgets added this time around on top of the standard TouchWiz interface.

One of the biggest drawbacks, however, is the lack of WiFi. Even so, you can expect to see this one sometime around November 10 for about $800. Check out the specs below:

• 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
• Built-in GPS receiver
• 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