Samsung has prepared a multimedia monster smartphone that presents itself as a real threat to Nokia's N96, Sony Ericsson's C905 and all the other highly-featured camera phones that will be released this year.

Named Samsung i8510, the new handset was first spotted on a Vietnamese blog. In terms of design, the smartphone seems to be a mix between the 5 Megapixel G810 and the Soul U900, both of which are sliders – hence the new Samsung is also a slider and it looks pretty cool.

Coming with a design inspired by the Samsung U900 Soul and the Samsung G810 the Samsung i8510 Primera will come with an 8 megapixel auto focus camera. We wonder whether the rumor Samsung are manufacturing the camera sensor of the Sony Ericsson C905 is correct - may be the Primera will feature the same camera unit then. There is a LED flash on the Samsung i8510 - pity since a xenon one is highly appreciated in any camera phone.

Exciting features of Samsung i8510 are :
- Symbian 9.3 OS with S60 UI
- 8MP camera with auto focus
- Xenon LED flash
- WiFi
- GPS
- 2.8-inch screen with 16M colors (QVGA)
- 128MB of RAM
- 8/16GB options of internal memory
- microSD expansion slot
- USB 2.0
- Bluetooth 2.0
- 3G network up to HSDPA data connection
- 3.5mm standard audio jack
- 1200mAH battery
- 106.5 x 53.9 x 16.9mm measurement
