verizon Wireless this week introduced the Verizon Wireless FlipShot by Samsung, which boasts a 3-megapixel camera with a rotating display, as well as Bluetooth - and a business card scanner! Whee! It's available now for $200 with a two-year contract.

"The new Samsung FlipShot, aka the SCH-U900, is a high-end multimedia phone for Verizon Wireless," writes CNET News' Kent German. "Not only does it offer the full slate of 3G features, but also it marks the return of the swiveling flip phone, a trend which briefly climaxed two years ago."

"Camera phones are a popular offering by wireless carriers and have become a lot more sophisticated than basic cell phones with built-in cameras," notes InformationWeek's Elena Malykhina . "Many now feature high-resolution photo quality, advanced flash, zooming, and color balancing functions, and even the ability to take photos in low light indoors or the bright outdoors."

More here from TMCnet ... more here from I4U News ... more here from Computerworld ... and the press release is here.