Engadget reports some very big news, very kool, Samsung demos 3D camera, display for cellphones. The phone digicams are stereoscopic and they have lenticular autostereoscopic screens so there is no need to freeview or to have special glasses or other viewing equipment.

While cameraphones in America can still barely manage to capture a picture whose elements can actually be identified, our friends in Korea will soon be snapping 3D photos with their advanced mobiles. Samsung recently demonstrated a working concept that incoporates stereoscopic cameras and a 3D-capable display directly into a cellphone, allowing for a more lifelike rendition of the subject. The stereo cams work under the same principle as human eyesight, while a parallax barrier LCD display gives on-screen images more depth and robustness. The new camera setup and displays should start appearing on foreign handsets next year, by which time we’ll hopefully be seeing 3 megapixel phones with optical zooms here in the technologically-backwards US.

We’ll have to wait and see what the resolution is like but it is likely that they will have a decent enough size for most uses.

Now . . . hopefully digital camera makers will see this sort of thing as an opportunity to go past just cellphone displays and into regular photography with real fully featured stereodigicams soon. Hopefully, more games and television and media convergence as well . . . all of which are in the works, but some accellerated development would be nice to see as competition to set standards and to anchor the market begins heating things up.