Camera Phone Reviews

August 29, 2008

LG KF750 Secret Review - PC Advisor

LG Secret KF750 PC Advisor reviews the LG KF750 Secret and writes, "The LG Secret has features in abundance. As well as the 5Mp camera seen on the adverts, there's both video and media editors that help you add simple effects and titles to the video clips you record and the photos you snap...The LG Secret is able to capture video at 120fps (frames per second). Few phones are capable of such a feat and the footage we took, while distinctly amateur, was also markedly crisper and smoother than from other phones. It even supports DivX."

BlackBerry Curve 8330 (Verizon) Review - MobileTechReview

Blackberry 8330 MobileTechReview has a review of the BlackBerry Curve 8330 and writes, "As with all Curve smartphones, the BlackBerry Curve 8330 has a 2 megapixel camera with digital zoom, and LED flash and a self portrait mirror. However, the camera on the Curve 8330 can record video while previous Curve models didn’t offer this feature. The quality of photos the Curve takes has also advanced. We didn’t find any difference in camera performance between the two CDMA Curve versions. The camera lens isn’t terribly wide and you can have the LED flash turned on automatically or manually. The Curve takes sharp photos by 2 mp camera phone standards both indoors and outdoors with a good amount of detail and very good color balance. The images look good even though overly sharpened like many of today’s camera phone photos, but the high contrast works well with the images. Indoor shots have some noise but not bad at all, and in very poor lighting conditions the camera will turn on the flash. The camera phone can shoot photos in three resolutions: 1600 x 1200, 1024 x 768 and 640 x 480 with three quality settings and the camera software also has white balance and color effects settings. You can use photos as screen image and caller ID or send them to email and Messenger contacts."

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Posted by BJ at 09:28 AM

August 28, 2008

LG Viewty Review - Stuff

LG KU990 Viewty Stuff reviews the LG Viewty and writes, "The 5MP camera is good, though there's no lens cover on it. The rim around the lens zooms in and out. This rim also adjusts volume during calls and scrolls through menus. This last function takes a bit of getting used to (though helps to compensate for the difficulty I had using the touchscreen to scroll) and is a bit uncomfortable to use one-handed...There is a xenon flash instead of LED...The camera also has a digital image stabilizer to make your photos less blurry, though in practice it doesn't work as well as an optical image stabilizer. The quality of the images was very good for a camera phone, and it certainly does it faster than Nokia's N95."

Nokia N78 Review - All About Symbian

All About Symbian reviews the Nokia N78 and writes, "The top of the device houses the 3.5mm audio jack and power button. The right hand side has, from top to bottom a speaker, volume controls and the camera capture key. The volume controls double as the zoom keys in the Camera and Photos applications. One absence compared to earlier devices, such as the N73, is the Gallery key - this is because it has effectively been replaced by the multimedia key, although because of its versatility, an extra few key presses are required to access recently captured photos...The back of the device houses the 3.2 megapixel, auto-focus camera, with its Carl Zeiss optics. It’s accompanied by a single LED flash. This limits the camera’s abilities in low light conditions, but makes sense given the pricing and positioning of the N78."

August 26, 2008

Samsung M110 Review - IT Reviews

IT Reviews has a review of the Samsung M110 and writes, "Something we'd like to see a lot more of on mobiles is the torch. Hold down the Cancel key and the LED flash for the built-in camera comes on and stays on. Press again and you can turn the flash off. There is also an emergency SOS feature, designed, we suppose, with those who get lost, stuck in the mud or otherwise incapacitated in mind. Hit the volume button three times and the phone autodials a pre-set emergency number...The camera is merely VGA resolution, which won't please anyone keen on taking action shots of their adventurous chums. There is an FM radio but no music player. You can't expand on the built-in memory, and international travellers might like to note that the phone is just dual band."

LG KF750 Secret Review - 3G

LG Secret KF750 3G reviews the LG KF750 Secret and writes, "The LG Secret has grabbed headlines for being the world’s slimmest mobile to carry a five-megapixel camera, and the design team really has worked wonders. But there’s no point in breaking records if the camera is no good...To be honest, there’s such a demand for more megapixels that most consumers will be happy just to have the five-megapixel box ticked; however, reassuringly, LG has jemmied in a very decent snapper."

August 22, 2008

Motorola Z10 Review - PC Advisor

PC Advisor reviews the Motorola Z10 and writes, "The Motorola Z10 has not one but two 3.2Mp cameras - a primary camera located on the back of the phone which is activated when the handset is closed and a secondary camera on the front of the phone that springs to life when the device is slide open, ensuring you can capture video and photos of yourself and your subjects."

HTC Touch Diamond Review - MobileTechReview

MobileTechReview has a review of the HTC Touch Diamond and writes, "HTC's cameras haven't been their strong point, even when they look good on paper. The 3 megapixel autofocus camera on the original Advantage X7501 didn't take very good pictures, and the Tilt's camera was just OK. The Diamond changes that, with sharper pictures that show clarity, good saturation and color balance. The autofocus lens is quick by camera phone standards and definitely improves image quality compared to a fixed focus lens; something we couldn't say as a rule for HTC's cameras before the Diamond. We still see too much sharpening in landscape shots leading to fractal-like leaves and overstated water reflections, but sharpening can be tweaked under advanced settings. The lens has a large max aperture of f2.8 and indoors it's wide open which means you'll see a good deal of motion blur."

August 21, 2008

Nokia 3555 Review - PCMag

Nokia 3555 PCMag reviews the Nokis 3555 and writes, "A microSD slot tucked under the battery took my 8GB SanDisk card without a problem. The VGA camera is good for novelty only, though the video mode takes smooth, if jaggy 176-by-144-pixel videos at 15 frames per second. While the 3555 does have a music player that syncs with Windows Media Player and plays MP3, unprotected AAC (though not iTunes Plus files), and both protected and unprotected WMA files, it's buried under several layers of menus. The player also, oddly, works only with the flip open, even with a wired or Bluetooth headset."

Samsung Instinct Review - MobileTechReview

samsung-instinct MobileTechReview has a review of the Samsung Instinct and writes, "The Samsung Instinct has a 2 megapixel camera with a fixed focus lens. There's a self portrait mirror but no flash. The camera uses the entire screen as the viewfinder and there are very few settings-- a cue Samsung shouldn't have taken from the iPhone. The phone takes images at max resolution, 1600 x 1200, and resizes them down if you send them as MMS (Picture Mail). There are no settings for white balance, effects or anything else. Likewise the camcorder has no settings other than a button to switch between MMS length (2 minutes or less) or for saving locally (length limited by available storage)."

August 20, 2008

BlackBerry Curve 8330 (Verizon) Review - PCMag

Blackberry 8330 PCMag reviews the BlackBerry Curve 8330 (Verizon) and writes, "The Curve's microSDHC card slot is still inconveniently located beneath the battery—that's getting old—but an 8GB SanDisk card worked fine. There's a 2MP camera sensor along with an enhanced LED flash and autofocus capability. This adds up to surprisingly detailed and balanced pictures, though it's still not the equal of a low-end point-and-shoot camera. It also captures decent-looking 240-by-176 videos at 14 frames per second."

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Posted by BJ at 01:29 PM

Samsung i640 Review - IT Reviews

samsung-i640 IT Reviews has a review of the Samsung i640 and writes, "There is no Wi-Fi here, but the tri-band handset incorporates 3G with HSDPA. There is a front-facing camera for two-way video calling and a main camera whose back-facing lens is protected by the slide mechanism when it is not needed. It shoots stills at resolutions up to 2 megapixels."

August 19, 2008

HTC Touch Dual Review - MobileTechReview

MobileTechReview has a review of the HTC Touch Dual and writes, "The camera is a 2 megapixel model with an autofocus lens. Focus speeds are decent by camera phone standards and images are slightly above average. The autofocus significantly improves portraits and close object shots but does little for landscapes and there's noticeable over-sharpening at fine and superfine quality settings that makes tree leaves and water ripples distracting. There are plenty of settings to tweak images including white balance, brightness, contrast, sharpness and these do help. There's a self-timer and pre-sets for action shots, multi-frame shots and more. The Touch Dual can save directly to a microSD card or internal memory and it can send these files via Bluetooth."

Palm Centro First Look Review - Australian PC Authority

Australian PC Authority does a first look review of the Palm Centro and writes, "Centro is the first Palm smartphone since the 680 to run Palm OS (OS v5.4.9 Garnet) rather than Windows Mobile, and it features the 680's 312 MHz Intel processor. It offers consumer-friendly features such as threaded SMS, PocketTunes, a 1.3 megapixel camera, video capture and Google Maps integration with the address book...Palm's new Centro is a stripped-down smartphone with a tiny QWERTY keyboard and a tiny price tag. It's a pre-paid phone only available from Telstra, which makes sense because it's not 3G so you'll get the best data speeds from Telstra's EDGE network. It features Bluetooth 1.2 and IR but no wifi, which the target market probably doesn't want anyway."

August 16, 2008

HTC Touch Dual Review - PC World

PC World reviews the HTC Touch Dual and writes, "Beyond the design changes, the Touch Dual provides a very similar experience to that of the Touch. Inside lies Qualcomm's MSM7200 400-MHz processor, 256MB of ROM, and 128MB of SDRAM. It has the same 2-megapixel camera as the Touch does, with the same shutter-speed delay between shots...Fans of the BlackBerry Pearl's tiny keypad might consider this alternative, but I'm desperate for a good set of keys to type up thoughts on the go. If you're a keyboard junkie like me, I recommend waiting for the recently announced HTC Touch Pro. That handset seems like a logical evolution of the T-Mobile Wing design, but it won't be available until sometime "before the end of 2008" (according to HTC)."