First and foremost is the 180-degree swiveling LCD, which, like Samsung's MultiView flavor, flips all the way forward to simplify composition for self-portraits, but it also offers some nifty gesture controls, letting you wave briefly to trigger a two-second countdown, for example.
Up front, you'll find the requisite sensors and an HD camera for video chats and self-portraits.
All the while unaware of the priceless collection of self-portraits directly above them.
Yet users of the network are sending around 50 million photos a day, many of them self-portraits.
In recent days, the rover has also sent back the images to make another of its popular self-portraits.
Everything in this gallery pales, however, beside one of the absolute best of Max Beckmann's many self-portraits, painted in 1938.
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His character heads are not quite self-portraits, but the faces reflect his feelings as simultaneously observed from outside and within.
Users can even swivel the LCD screen for creative and fun self-portraits.
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But his Twitter timeline more regularly featured self-portraits sunning himself or posing among the great and the good at conferences or glitzy events.
These self-portraits, apart from just being cool, are important because they help the team monitor the status of the rover in its travels.
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Part of the collection is a bed with a mirror attached to it, used by Kahlo in order to create many of her celebrated self-portraits.
Standing by the widened windows taking in the classic Tuscan view, it is interesting to see the crowds furiously snapping their own digital self-portraits on the street below.
The 2.1-megapixel, 88 degree, ultra-wide front-facing camera is able to capture self-portraits of you and the faces of up to four friends all at once.
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Those include several insightful self-portraits executed over a number of years.
Following the success of Samsung's MV800, the MV900F also features Samsung's innovative 180-degree MultiView display, making it easy to capture and share creative self-portraits from any angle.
For example, there were very few women painters at the time, and many of the self-portraits have more humour or cheekiness than was often displayed in works of the period.
Strangely, visitor numbers have gone up since the opening hours were cut - something Streets partly puts down to the allure of a current visiting exhibition of Andy Warhol self-portraits.
Additionally, taking self-portraits or group shots are easy thanks to Samsung's unique Gesture Shot, which applies motion-sensing technology so that users can control the camera remotely using hand gestures alone.
Van Gogh (1853-1890) created some of the world's best known and most loved paintings, including " Sunflowers, " " Irises" and " The Starrry Night, " and a number of self-portraits.
His creation of their self-portraits showed their shared sympathies across time and nationality: Painters belonged to the same culture, and could understand each other in ways that museum professionals and peddlers could never comprehend.
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Mr. Graves also took up painting a few years ago, and the walls of his studio are crowded with self-portraits and landscapes, many of which depict rows of poplars much like those that line the driveway to his house.
The front-facing camera takes gorgeous self-portraits.
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John Coplans, on the other hand, chose Type 55 film (which yields a black-and-white positive and negative) in the 1980s to record his own stolid nude body in interlocking blocks of hairy flesh, self-portraits that owe something to Henry Moore and Philip Guston.
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Moving around the device, all of the ports have remained the same and it still includes a stylus, but now there's a secondary front-facing 2MP video and stills camera for easier self-portraits (the rear shooter has also been upgraded to the same resolution).
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The Spanish cardinals and grandees, who were later adorned with oversized pairs in their portraits, were unwittingly helping to launch a very 21st-century idea: Technological self-enhancement is cool.
The subjects of her portraits are almost always in a state of transition, at some uneasy stage in the process of self-discovery and self-realization.
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