Panasonic's incredible cameraphone is coming to America, Leica lens and all [feedly]

Panasonic's incredible cameraphone is coming to America, Leica lens and all
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In September, Panasonic made waves at Photokina by using a camera show to announce a smartphone. But the Lumix CM1 isn’t just any smartphone: it has a 1-inch sensor, the kind you’d find in high-end point-and-shoot cameras, plus an f/2.8 Leica lens that you’d be lucky to find on a high-end point-and-shoot. Along with a 20-megapixel sensor, this phone is designed to basically reinvent the wheel when it comes to smartphone cameras.

It also has a 4.7-inch, 1080p display, a Snapdragon processor, Android 4.4, and 2GB of RAM. We liked it a lot at Photokina: it’s fast, full of useful camera software, and surprisingly manageable in size given what’s inside.

This is the kind of phone that never comes to America, the spec monster that...

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