After over a year of rumours, leaked pictures and speculation, Motorola have finally announced the 5 megapixel camera phone they've been working on with Kodak. Called the Motorola MOTOZINE ZN5, the new camera phone was seen as a key element in Motorola's fight-back against its competitors, which have been eating up its market share for over a year now.
Is it too little too late, though? Given that most of the other manufacturers have had 5 megapixel camera phones on the market for over a year now, and Sony Ericsson are about to launch an 8 megapixel camera phone, can Motorola's first 5 megapixel camera phone really help the company stem its losses and help it regain the technological lead it once held?
Read on after the jump to find out.
Is it too little too late, though? Given that most of the other manufacturers have had 5 megapixel camera phones on the market for over a year now, and Sony Ericsson are about to launch an 8 megapixel camera phone, can Motorola's first 5 megapixel camera phone really help the company stem its losses and help it regain the technological lead it once held?
Read on after the jump to find out.
I used to be a fan of Motorola phones. I nearly bought a Motorola RAZR way back in 2004 when it came out, simply because it looked about 100 years ahead of the competition. I even had a Motorola Accompli 008 back in 2001, one of the first smartphones with a touchscreen (albeit stylus-based). The reason I didn't buy the RAZR? Its features. At the time, it had an awful VGA camera, whereas the phone I did buy, the Sony Ericsson S700i, had a top of the range (for the time!) 1.3 megapixel camera that actually took decent photos.
I decided that looks alone weren't enough and that I wanted a phone whose features actually worked, rather than being tacked on as a marketing gimmick because every other phone had them. Is this still the case with the new MOTOZINE ZN5? Is it yet another Motorola phone that flatters to deceive, with a 5 megapixel camera built-in, simply because every other camera phone is now boasting at least 5 megapixels?
I decided that looks alone weren't enough and that I wanted a phone whose features actually worked, rather than being tacked on as a marketing gimmick because every other phone had them. Is this still the case with the new MOTOZINE ZN5? Is it yet another Motorola phone that flatters to deceive, with a 5 megapixel camera built-in, simply because every other camera phone is now boasting at least 5 megapixels?
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