Aigo A8/Leo-14MP cameraphone

While dual-core, 4G phones may have dominated the spotlight at last week's CES, there was plenty of other hardware worth checking out that may have been overshadowed. One of which is the Aigo A8 -- née Altek Leo -- an Android cameraphone (more like a phonecamera, really) destined for China Unicom that sports a 14 megapixel autofocus camera with a CCD sensor, xenon flash, 3x optical zoom, and support for 720p HD video recording.

From the front, the A8 looks like a thicker iPhone 4 with a very nice 3.2-inch WVGA capacitive touchscreen and three additional buttons. In back, the collapsible zoom lens, xenon flash, and aluminum battery cover mimic a point-and-shoot camera. The phone runs Android 2.1 without any of the Google applications (such as Gmail, Google maps, or the Android Market), and feels like it's powered by a circa 600MHz processor. It packs the usual collection of radios including GSM (quadband), HSPA (likely triband), Bluetooth, WiFi, and GPS.
Of course,  the camera is the star of the show.The camera interface is reasonably intuitive, too.
Overall A8 is quite impressive, but the hardware and software are still being worked on.