MOTOZINE ZN5: a photographer’s ROKR
June 23, 2008 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Motorola
The Motozine ZN5 – this is what you get when you combine the technology of the Motorola ROKR E8 with Kodak’s imaging. What you end up with is an elegant cameraphone wiht Xenon flash and a Kodak lens.
In many ways it is actually better than the ROKR E8 as it also sports a 3.5mm jack and has built in WiFi. The purpose of the WiFi connectivity is to dock with Kodak wireless devices such as the picture kiosk you can find in malls. This feature of course, is non exclusive. But still — the Motozine ZN5 holds true promise with …read more
Xenon Flash: the new thing with camera phones
February 4, 2008 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Accessories, Camera phones, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson
First it was the accelerometer. Now it’s Xenon powered flash.
Nokia was probably the first in the Asian region to release a Xenon flash equipped camera phone with the Nokia N82. Now Sony Ericsson as well as Samsung have released their own versions of Xenon flash enabled phones as well. The demand for Xenon flash came about from consumers who take tons of night shots. Since mobile phone cameras have been in the megapixel war for the longest time, flash considerations were not really addressed. It isn’t about megapixels anymore as you don’t blow up photos taken from phones to bond …read more
