ZN5 Mobile Phone II

When you've edited your photos to your liking, you can transfer them to your PC with the included USB cable or 1GB microSD card, or via text message. You can also upload them wirelessly to the Kodak Photo Gallery, where you can share the pics and order prints. In my hands-on tests, photo quality was very good, about the best I've seen from a mobile phone. Colors appeared accurate and bright, with very little interference. The Xenon flash was a little too bright, however, often blowing out my pictures. Videos weren't as crisp, but still looked good. The ZN5 has a panorama mode, too. When I first heard about it at CTIA, I thought it seemed a bit gimmicky and useless. But in actuality, I really enjoyed playing with this feature, and I had fun taking action shots with it. The ZN5 connects over T-Mobile's EDGE quad-band network, but also supports Wi-Fi. The browser loaded pages at a moderate speed and displayed them clearly, but with limited Java support. The ZN5 definitely could benefit from a faster 3G connection, particularly for the photo-uploading features. Connecting through Wi-Fi didn't really increase the speed. Call quality, enhanced by Motorola's CrystalTalk technology, was very good. My contacts sounded clear, though a little quiet. Parties on the other end consistently reported very good sound quality with little background noise. The battery lasted 10 hours in our lab tests--the maximum amount of time that we test. The ZN5 has the standard Moto media player, which supports WMA, MP3, and AAC, plus a few other types of audio files. Unlike other Motorola phones, such as the Rokr E8, the ZN5 does not support protected AAC from the iTunes store. The media player is pretty bare-bones: You can browse your music by recently played, artists, albums, genres, and composers. The ZN5 offers no music-store app, but you can sync your music library on your PC to your phone via Windows Media Player 11. The handset also includes an FM radio, which triggers when you plug in the included headphones. If you prefer, you can swap those headphones for better ones, since the ZN5 has a standard 3.5mm jack. Audio quality for the most part was good but not stellar. Video quality, on the other hand, was worse than I expected; I saw a lot of blurriness and interference in the videos I played in my hands-on tests. The Motorola Motozine ZN5 might not be the most eye-catching handset or the fastest phone around, but its impressive camera makes those small faults forgivable. And you can't beat the $100 price.