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 its impressive specs. We just hope that the ModeShift technology is very friendly on the keypad. It wasn’t the case with the ROKR E8.

The full features of the MOTOZINE ZN5

ModeShift Technology
350MB internal memory / 4GB expansion card
5 megapixel camera, auto-focus, low-light setting, digital zoom
Shutter speed: 1/60 – 1/1000 seconds in auto mode
Multi-shot mode
Capture modes: panorama, macro, multi-shot
Editing effects: grayscale, sepia, negative, reddish, greenish, bluish, brightness, sharpen, contrast, blur
Panorama feature automatically matches continuous shots taken on horizon line into single image
Digital zoom lens
Focal length: 5.56mm. Aperture: 2.8/5.6
CrystalTalk Technology
SMS, MMS, IM, personal e-mail3
Full HTML open source browser
3.5mm A/V jack, FM radio, MP3, WMA
Wi-Fi4 enabled/ WLAN: 802.11 b/g/i
Windows Media Player® 11
Video-C/P 15fps, MPEG4, H263
TV out5

[image c/o Motorola PR]

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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 paper size prints. Night photos were given more thought – and thus, Xenon flash.

Because the duration of the flash that is emitted by a xenon flash tube can be accurately controlled, and due to the high intensity of the light, xenon flash lamps are most commonly used as photographic strobe lights. Xenon flashlamps are also used in the technique of very high speed or “stop-motion” photography, which was pioneered by Harold Edgerton in the 1930s. [Xenon Flash]

The Sony Ericsson K800i has Xenon flash, 3MP sensor and burst mode! The Samsung G800, which will be officially launched in parts of Asia this week also has the same Xenon flash technology and 5MP.

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