Samsung has released the new SCH-W740 Haptic 8MP camera phone in Korea. Samsung SCH-W740 has very high resolution, 480×800 3.3-inch, 8 megapixels camera that can tag and recognize the faces in the photos. It is also equipped with Xenon flash, smile detection and business card scanner.

The Samsung SCH-W740 supports at the base of 3G HSPA up to 5.7Mbps downstream in country of Korea, which supports T-DMB digital TV tuner, Bluetooth 2.0 and microSDHC cards.

The company’s now-ubiquitous TouchWiz interface stands as the front end and offers widgets for applications and Information. The Samsung SCH-W740 Haptic 8MP is only available in Korea for 900,000 KRW equal to approximately $620. [www.electronista.com]