Motorola Zine ZN5 Cameraphone Reviewed

November 26 2008, 1:15am

The Motorola Zine ZN5 (US$100 with T-Mobile contract) is a mobile phone that has the following features:

bar form factor
5 megapixel camera, with Kodak lens, autofocus, xenon flash, video (15fps)
GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 / EDGE network
2.4-inch 240 x 320 TFT display (256K colors)
Touch-sensitive keypad
Freescale 500 MHz CPU
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/i
350 MB internal memory
microSD expansion, up to 4GB
Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP
USB 2.0 connectivity
TV out
MP3/WMA/eAAC+ player
FM radio
voice memo
Linux OS
dimensions: 118 x 50.5 x 12-16 mm
weight: 114 g

“The Motorola Zine is a phone that would be a good replacement for your low-end point-and-shoot camera, and that’s the nicest compliment you can pay a cameraphone. It’s a good phone, a pretty good camera, and a surprisingly capable multimedia and Web browsing device. The camera takes real, good-quality pictures, helped along by some agile post-processing, and we even enjoyed the full-size 8 by 10 inch prints we made directly from the device. Kodak et al. don’t quite deliver on their promise of easy uploading, and we had trouble sending and managing our pics, probably caused by the phone’s buggy OS, which was sluggish some times, and completely unresponsive at others. Still, if you can manage your own pics, and you’re looking for a casual shooter that’s also a fine phone, the Motorola Zine is a great choice.” [InfoSync World | Motorola Zine review]

Need a mobile phone with a camera that takes good-enough-to-print pictures? The Motorola Zine ZN5 could give you that, and more – good multimedia and web browsing functions with Wi-Fi. IceRocket: motorola zn5 kodak cameraphone Tags: camera phone