A desirable feature of the Samsung A503 is the 32MB of built-in flash memory. It's for those times when you run out of space on your primary storage card (Secure Digital) and desperately want to shoot some pictures. The 32MB should provide adequate backup in situations of emergency. The A503 also supports PictBridge, which means you can connect the A503 directly to a printer over USB.

There's also an image editor built into the A503, which provides basic operations such as trimming, resizing, rotating etc. In my opinion, it's a feature one can live without. What is useful, however, is the ability to add a voice memo to a picture. Now, you can save your emotions the moment you click!

The Samsung A503 has some tricks up its sleeve. It can do some special effects! These include, Color Effect - offering a variety of colors, including B/W, sepia, blue, red, green, or negative depending on your photographic settings; Highlight - which keeps the subject in sharp focus while putting the rest of the image into soft focus; Photo Frame - allowing the shooter to choose from nine different types of photo frames to shoot their subjects in; and Composite Shot - that allows the user to take two-to-four shots, and save them into a single file. The seven scene modes supported by the A503 include: Night, Portrait, Landscape, Sunset, Dawn, Backlight, Fireworks and Beach & Snow.

The A503 will be available in January 2006 with an MSRP of $139.99.