Samsung Galaxy Camera Phone

Is this a camera or smartphone? Yes to both. Looking at the Samsung Galaxy Camera from this angle, it looks like a point-and-shoot with a rather large lens, a 21x optical zoom.
Flip over the device, and on the other side you have a smartphone packing Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) that lets you bark out orders to it such as "zoom in" and "shoot," giving you completely hands-free voice-controlled operation.

Aimed at photo enthusiasts whose smartphones are used more as cameras than anything else, Samsung created this 3G- and 4G-connected Galaxy Camera for those who don't mind taking up the extra space to have a smartphone camera whose size is roughly equal to that of a point-and-shoot.
On the other hand, Galaxy Camera users would be actually saving space compared with carrying both a smartphone and a point-and-shoot camera at the same time.

If you're looking for a thin smartphone, look elsewhere, because Samsung's as-yet-unpriced camera phone is not exactly svelte.
When you zoom the lens all the way, it's quite a bit thicker than a smartphone. But I like that swooping, clean design.

Check out this relatively large 4.8-inch HD LCD display, giving you a wide canvas on which to compose your photographic masterpieces.
The device makes it super-easy to upload pictures to social networks such as Facebook and Instagram, just like Nikon's Android-powered camera announced in early August.
If Samsung wants to compete with that model, it's going to need to price its Galaxy Camera at around $349. Samsung is sweetening the pot with an offer of an additional 50GB of Dropbox storage space for two years for those purchasing this Galaxy Camera or the Samsung Galaxy Note II.
Will Samsung's Android-powered phone resonate with users? We'll have to wait until it's available in October to find out.