Feb 05, 2009 by simonp

While every major phone maker has released their 5-megapixel camera phone in the market yongs ago, Motorola showed that it may not be too late to put out another.

Their Kodak-powered MotoZine ZN5 brings a new old imaging horse into the equation using their Imaging Technology and Perfect Touch Technology. The results are nice, as told by the pictures snapped, with fairly more details, not noise, in lowly lighted shots. It’s surely a fun camera mobile to have while out clubbing or while on a holiday – it takes panorama pictures. There is also an attempt at the whole picture sharing social networking thing with the introduction of Kodak’s Gallery into the ZN5. It makes it easy to upload pictures to a website and brag about it.

Verdict
It takes respectable pictures, and allows easy sharing. Would have helped if there was 3G support though.

FEATURES

01 Trigger-snappy
Five-megapixel camera backed by a powerful Xenon flash. Takes pretty good
shots for a mobile phone. A sliding lens cover protects, well, the lens.

02 Smooth operator
The candybar feels good to hold, with a flush keypad that ‘transforms’ itself with ModeShift technology. Sliding the lens cover open changes the keypad to camera mode, with camera operation functions highlighted and the rest taking a backseat.

03 Staying connected
There’s WiFi, and a handy tool called ShoJu that makes it easy to put pictures into social networking sites.

Quick Specs
SIZE/WEIGHT: 50.5 x 118x 16mm, 114g
SCREEN: 2.4 inch, 240 x 320 pixels, 262k colour
STORAGE: 350MB internal, MicroSD external
CONNECTIVITY: Bluetooth, USB
NETWORKS: Quad-band GSM, EDGE
BATTERY: 310 hours standby, 349 mins talk-time

Price: SGD638
Website: www.motorola.com

DID YOU KNOW?
MotoMusic – Music for your Moto
Motorola has a digital music distribution service aptly name MotoMusic Songs can be purchased at SGD1.99 (online download) and SGD2.50 (mobile download). - www.motomusic.com.sg

Note: This review was first published in Gadget3 Magazine November 2008.


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