Motorola MOTOZINE ZN5 reviewed – Picture quality is top-notch
By Will Park on Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 at 4:39 PM PST In Devices, Motorola
Motorola’s latest flagship cameraphone has been making the rounds of late. The folks over at Crave managed to get their hands on the 5 megapixel Kodak-branded cameraphone that is the Motorola (NYSE: MOT) MOTOZINE ZN5, and they’ve posted the sample photo you see to the left. (full-resolution version here)
One of the ZN5′ highlights (aside from that high-quality camera, of course) is that it doesn’t bear any resemblance to the tired RAZR styling that Motorola has been pushing on us for years. A quick flick of the camera lens cover affects a lickity-split camera start-up time, and shutter lag (an annoying problem with many high-end cameraphones) was almost non-existent.
The Xenon flash helps light up dark-shots, but the one thing that seems at odds with the Kodak-branding is that neither the optics nor the image sensor were touched by Kodak. The imaging giant apparently played a limited role in developing the camera interface.
All in all, the Motorola ZN5 proved to be a competent cameraphone, but the lack of 3G may be a deal-killer for many high-end handset enthusiasts out there – perhaps that explains Motorola’s decision to debut this handset in China.
[Via: Crave]
Motorola misses a lot of time again: 5MPix cameras aren’t so popular now (SE uses 7Mpix, for example)
The Camera of the Motorola that I brought sucked big time. For 5 MP, it looked even worse than a 1.3 MP camera at first. I exchanged it for another one, and the second one had the same problem too. Grainy images. Maybe I brought 2 phones from a bad batch?? I dont know. But, it has been a very disappointing experience. The phone will be returned back. T-mobile also wants to charge me $10 restocking fee on a defective phone!!! Isnt that a nice trade off??? I get a defective phone, and they get my money to return the damn thing.