Sporting a five-megapixel camera with autofocus and an LED flash, we expect great things from the Samsung Wave 723. And indeed we got them, at least where stills shooting is concerned.

There are various scene modes including sports, night, party/indoor dawn, fireworks, text, and candlelight. Smile shot, continuous mode and panorama mode are also present, so you can play around quite a bit.

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INDOORS: Often you can forget about the scene mode settings and just point and shoot with the Samsung Wave 723 to get a decent image. This dimly lit bar produced a surprisingly bright and detailed photo

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OUTDOORS: Outside results were reasonably good with the camera able to pick up a fair amount of detail. This very dull winter day didn't stop the lens capturing a fair bit of light

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CLOSE-UP: No, these aren't real strawberries, but a tablecloth photographed close up. The Samsung Wave 723 camera does well to cope so close in without a macro mode, and both the light and detailing are good

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PANORAMA: The panorama mode is very easy to use. The camera automatically takes the next image in a sequence, so that all you need to do is move the camera around. The stitching process is fast too