Motorola ZINE ZN5 5
The Motorola MOTOZINE ZN5 was a long time in coming. The initial announcement that Kodak and Motorola made regarding a co-developed cameraphone ran across the wire over 2.5 years before the ZN5 made it to the Chinese market just barely in time for the Beijing Summer Olympic games earlier this year.
Now that the MOTOZINE ZN5 is available from T-Mobile USA, we’ve managed to get a hold of one to put through its paces. Read on to learn just how well the ZN5 does as both a phone and a 5 megapixel point and shoot camera. The body style of the ZN5 is similar to that of other recent Motorola handsets like the RAZR2 and the Z9. It has a parallelogram profile and is relatively thin. A bulge on the back makes extra room for the autofocus camera lens and the sliding lens cover that activates the camera. The side and top edges of the ZN5, as well as the rear cover, are made of metal, while the bottom of the device is coated in a rubber material.
The ZN5’s display offers QVGA (240×320 pixel) resolution and has a fairly high maximum brightness. The colors are quite good and the images are very sharp. A larger display would have been nice for a phone with such a focus on photography, but would have required that the phone be larger. The keypad is a flat plastic sheet with raised bumps that act as finger guides. The bumps on the keypad are a good idea and help to keep fingers where they need to be when dialing or entering text. The feel of the keypad is decent, but not as nice as that from the metal keypads found on many of Motorola’s devices. The d-pad controller that sits above the keypad works pretty well even if it is a bit small, but the buttons that surround it are poorly designed and somewhat hard to use.
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