5 megapixel Motorola ZN5 nears

I was a moto user, but still have my Maxx v6 i now use N95 8Gb. My n95 takes pictures better than this crap and not even MODDED! Like always with moto "if u don't mod it u won't be happy" and that's a FACT! like it or not, every moto modder knows that! If this moto's best in trying something bigger and better they better try harder cuz with this ugly crap they won't go further. Still these shots still doesn't convince me in buying another moto handset, i'd rather buy a samsung next time, yes samsung cuz SE phones sucks at battery life.

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• Greg
• 2008-05-06 01:39  Qh4Z

my dream phone would have 3x optical zoom. and a nice size. we have had the sharp 903. good phone good optics. not bad size unfortunately let down by only vodafone. Then we have Nokia N95 again awesome phone good features. built like a brick heavy,and the dual side slide awefull idea. Then we have samsung G800. nice looking great optics,and let down by bad shutter lag, so there is a patern. if you going to make a camera phone spend the design on that. my wifes K850i is brill if that had an optical zoom on it. that would be the best phone out. as everything about shouts quality, but let down by the video section. my LG viewty has the best video camera on any phone, but let down by now sliding lens cover,and no hot swapable memory card. so its swings and roundabouts. so take note S.E,Nokia,LG,Samsung,Motorola these are the faults.

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• mark p
• 2008-05-05 23:11  mm$4

I hate motorola. Do they sell the camera only and keep the phone? =))

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• Doc
• 2008-05-05 23:08  0Ujx

wow they have made it to 5 mega pixel land. at last. all they need to do now is re-design a decent menu system. and make a nice design phone. and they back for good. i really loved the V3X. but after that they fell to peices in the design side of things. and yes a 5 meg camera is good and they can in the right sort of hands IE a photographer can produce amazing results. but like all camera even slr's you need the right light and settings and timing for the perfect picture, as any photographer will tell you. i took a picture on my LG viewty and someone said what megapixel camera was that taken by. when i said my mobile phone they said oh my god!.

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• mark p
• 2008-05-05 23:03  mm$4

And another observation of mine: it seems that many people around the world (I really mean WORLD) love to hate Motorola and love all the rest. Sure Motorola has had its past mistakes but will those be enough to justify your hatred against the company? Hell, I've got my problems with my Motorola phones too but I can fix them myself with my own knowledge of the phone's software. What makes Motorola so attractive to all those bashers anyways? Bad software and build quality? All phone companies had their bad phones too but why bash Moto too much?

It seems to me that all of you watch Moto's every single move, exploit its weaknesses, and proclaim these shortcomings proudly like you're some kind of god. You always laugh at the phones and the people who use them like nobody's business. Not only that, but you always praise all the other companies like Nokia and Sony Ericsson for their efforts and technologies which some are undoubtedly borrowed from Motorola itself.That hurts you know, not only the company, but the consumers who patronize it, including me. You're actually lucky that Motorola existed, for without it, the whole cellphone business itself would not materialize.

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• jjsoviet
• 2008-05-05 22:21  kQ3j

To all those people who say the ZN5 is ugly, let me ask you a simple question: What defines a beautiful phone?

The design of the ZN5 may not be appealing to everybody, but that doesn't mean it's very ugly. It doesn't even need to be beautiful to function properly. Look at your "crown jewel of the phone industry" the N95. It isn't that beatiful, but it compensated with its wide array of features. The ZN5 also has this same principle. You may think that Motorola only produces fashion phones, but a lot of them do not incorporate the classic RAZR design like the ROKR E8 and the MING A1200.

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• jjsoviet
• 2008-05-05 22:06  kQ3j

very ugly phone

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• 2008-05-05 20:56  Lke@

Lets hope these both struggling companies can do something good and get back on track in the long run. Kodak sucks at camera's now and Motorola is loosing its touch in the phone business. They gotta turn things around and keep the competition going.

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• 2008-05-05 20:43  kxSv

I really don't get 5mpx phones. If I want to take a great picture, I'd use my DSLR instead but if I want to take a spur of the moment picture... my 1.3 mpx from my SLVR l7i will do. Even with all of the technology added to the phone, the quality wont be the same as the DSLR's.

HOWEVER... the feature added to the upcoming motophones sounds promising. A 5mpx on a entry level phone (the SLVR L7 market) that takes pictures in RAW format sounds great, still can't imagine whta their future line up will do. An 8mpx to 12mpx phone sound unbelieveble.

I will be buying the RAZR2 v9 in a couple of weeks, I don't really need a 5mpx phone. When it comes to a cellphone, it is the quality of the call that counts and not how many megapixels it has.

For the moto haters... read the article first and understand that this is just a PROTOTYPE and not the production version!

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• fakuryu
• 2008-05-05 18:17  QI%c

lets hope theyve learned their lesson with the razor 2, and this phone gets a better battery life

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• Ninth delegate
• 2008-05-05 17:13  3H0c

Oh gosh! Thanks for the updated pics, now I'm deffinitely going to buy it ... It looks as beautiful as a candybar can be. Maybe the chinese ones were of a proto (in terms of color of the design) This new pics deffinitely improve and I wish the final product is nearer to those.

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• dmatt
• 2008-05-05 16:41  PcQn

Just 1 thing.... Is this phone 3G/3.5G?

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• 2008-05-05 16:40  wri5

let's give motorola a chance to redeem themselves. but they really have to stay away from razor-like design.

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• 2008-05-05 15:26  2An2

Hey . when a 5 mp fone i announced from moto ..... y r u crying...... kodak holds a share of 18% of camera market while sony is 39%.......Kodak has some exceptional features of cam too. kodak offers a 12 mpx camera.... while the maximum from sony is 10mpx........Nikon which is considerd best camera holds a share of only 7%.......... market share doesnt explain the company..
as nokia is always behind in many features but holds max market share.

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• 2008-05-05 14:57  upqj

The only good thing I'll say about this is that it looks well built and can certainly take a beating

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• 2008-05-05 14:14  ibcx

To the person who said the Z10 would have been better timed in 1997 - 'cuz you really were rocking a cell phone in 1997, futhermore a camera phone.

It would seem on this forum that Motorola cannot do any right. I would like someone to post an upcoming Motorola phone and call it a Nokia project phone and see the difference in comments. How cool was the TV Broadcast feature in the N92 yet more than half of us here cannot use it? Yes it is late, but no one ever critisizes SE Music phones for not having a 3.5mm audio jack (how stupid is that?) or sticking to expensive Memory Stick cards. No one slams Nokia for borrowing features from Motorolas to help their music phones (3.5mm jack, mini-B port, stereo speakers). Seems popular to hate M and love Nokia for no good reason.

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• nicksti
• 2008-05-05 13:20  kbhA

How can anyone compare Sony and Ericsson, to Moto and Kodak? Is this the Kodak that is on a yearly downsizing track because they are unable to compete? Kodak, who makes mediocore digicams. Moto and Kodak; sounds like . . . we'll see.

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• lhino9
• 2008-05-05 12:49  k2EZ

just keep it coming motorola

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• 2008-05-05 12:40  wYFV

wow, the amount of useless crappy comments giving early judgemnets on the cellphone really amazes me. come on, read the article, PROTOTYPE. i am not saying that the final product will defeinitely have significantly better imaging capabilities, but still, this is a PROTOTYPE. please give judegements on its capabilities and "how it feels on you hand" after the final product is out and you have actually held in in your hands...geeesh

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• 2008-05-05 10:15  PEnC

I seriously don't understand why some people here are so excited about something they don't really know about. Why does a phone camera needs a RAW mode, when the RAW mode requires a much bigger storage yet doesn't necessarily promise a much better photo quality. In some case, RAW mode preserves all the detail information that are needed for photo editing, so using RAW mode in a DSLR can help improve the photo quality in the editing period of a photo shooting. Some prosumers camera in the market also provides RAW mode, like Canon G9, does the RAW mode really takes the photo quality up to a standard that can match up with a DSLR? No way. If you own a G9 and a DSLR, you will know. Why is it the situation? It has a lot to do with the full frame issue. Usually a DSLR provides at least 20% to 40% of full frame when taking a picture, some high end DSLR provides almost up to 100% of full frame, when Prosumer usually provies only 6% to 10% of full frame. Camphone? Do the logical deduction youself. The larger % of full frame a camera can provide, the more details it can record during photo shooting. That's the reason why most camphone's photo quality is still way behind your ordinary DC. A RAW mode means nothing unless the device we are talking about provides unless 20% of full frame. And I think most of us here are not soiling the reputation of Motorola for something we haven't really seen, we are all commenting on this news in GSMArena about MOTO ZN5, with testing photos in it, we are all having our judgement based on the testing photos. And trust me, I have seen much better testing photos from early beta version of N95.

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• Ken Hakeem
• 2008-05-05 09:11  TIU9