5 megapixel Motorola ZN5 nears
5 megapixel, Motorola and Kodak ring a bell? Well, a 5MP co-branded shooter is obviously just around the corner. What's even better, some leaked pictures shed... Update 5 May: official photos
There are still a lot of people who just hate Motorola for the sake of hating it. This is just a prototype phone and the retail version will surely bring the best of the collaboration, just as much as it took some time for the Doubting Thomases to have faith in the collaboration of Ericsson and Sony but look at SE now, the best alliance so far. Maybe this one with Kodak will be one of the best, if not the best, who knows? Like the one with Nokia, Carl Zeiss lenses and Symbian which has put Nokia in front with sales, though I personally don't like Symbian(it puts a lot of good software together but operates awkwardly, S40 OS & Motorola's proprietory OS, Synergy and Linux are intelligent) S60 or even S80. I would rather wait for a Nokia S40 with GPS & Wi-Fi(already in production) and a document viewer. My ideal phone is a Motorola that runs on Synergy (or Linux) having a 3.5mm jack, a bigger screen, GPS, Wi-Fi, 3G(HSDPA) and a document viewer. The Kodak camera will be a plus for me.
- Justice
- 2008-05-05 08:41 M@T2
Actually I think the photo is a pretty good representation of pollution in China.
- 2008-05-05 07:32 Ui$1
Good move on the part of motorola coz they are bhind imaging,now that kodak has tranced into motorolla well people lets see the outcome of ZN5..jst like ericsson and sony did
- cris
- 2008-05-05 05:58 vj11
It seems Motorola is finally armed, this phones got everything to become a succes, I mean I own a good Kodak camera and if that technology were to blend with motorla's new hardware solution ( nice interface Linux based very fast processors that easily exceed samsung, and LG's ) well then not much could go wrong, I think nokia is about to meet a storm as sonyericssons punch is coming this year as well toghether with P5 and offcourse this unexpected contender the ZN5 I don't think the N96 will hold all of them :P
Motorola is really putting up it's final resolve although I am not a motorola fan I've always respected them like siemens used to be ,motorola is one of the innovators in the industry and I think this model's a good start for what we are to expect form motorla in the near future well done I guess.
- 2008-05-05 01:42 mS4B
I laugh at those comments which soil the reputation of Motorola. How can you say a product is of bad quality if it hasn't even been sold yet? If you want to comment about a product's quality, then you should go get one and evaluate it hands-on instead of ranting about it without knowing its capabilities. Kodak is already helping Motorola with the imaging department of their phones. What else do you want? A contract with Apple? Microsoft? Yeesh.
- jjsoviet
- 2008-05-04 22:53 kQ3j
This phone you can't compare it with no other brand who have 5mpxl cameras.
Like, SE, Nokia, LG or Samsung. It's a terrible phone. Motorola fans, that's the true. The only brand I don't like not even a bit, is motorola.
- Chamon
- 2008-05-04 19:44 PfBV
It's not a good phone, and it hasn't a good camera, either. Motorola is drowning in the phone market. Better improve your phones, or else...
- Chamon
- 2008-05-04 19:41 PfBV
motorola z3 and z6 are solid sliders compared to samsung but their still lacking the X factor and should design better than
- sottai_boss
- 2008-05-04 18:19 TIE7
The keypad area doesnt look too good neither too cool.. Having this wont make you feel you got a great phone in your hand.. What's wrong with motorola, seems like their losing the tech race..
- 2008-05-04 10:06 Nyjy
I'll believe it when i see it.
- 2008-05-04 09:32 4XMu
To those ignorant people talking about Motorola seeking Kodak's help, as early as 2007, Motorola already signed a 10 year agreement with Kodak to develop camera modules in mobile phones.
- 2008-05-04 08:45 TIEh
Motorola's going down ....... what a bad design for zn5...is going down
- Peter rajan
- 2008-05-04 07:20 utta
Dats awful for motorola. They r behind in technologies. Though I liked the Xenon Flash, dat my N95 8GB dznt hav.
- Vlad
- 2008-05-04 04:56 4@6R
Awesome....Moto will lead the market again.With 5 megapixel in RAW.That'll be the first camera phone with that feature.Another innovation by Motorola.And others can only follow.
- huatz84
- 2008-05-04 04:40 P%@f
Moto seems to be looking to innovate the camera phone market. This I'll have to keep and eye on. I'm really not a fan of cameras in phones. I really could do without, I have two cameras, ones a DSLR so I don't need my phone to have it. And I'm sorry Nokia fans but in my opinion the cameras arent nearly as good as everyone makes them out to be, and now a days everyone has a 5MP camera in their phones. But he fact that Moto is looking to make camera phones that compete with dedicated digital cameras surprised me, didn't think it'd be those guys. But hey I'll have to hand it to them. This is innovation indeed. And to those asking what the term "raw" means knows nothing about cameras. With this along with other features will allow the ZN5 to compete with digital cams, eventually DSLR's. These will thrash the cams found in Nokia, Samsung, and LG phones.
- Ronald
- 2008-05-04 04:17 efI@
Wow so many nokia fanboys running scared at the moment. I bet if this was a nokia phone it would be a different story with you guy. Motorola already has higher mp cameras in development. So now its nokias turn to play catch up. Maybe if nokia didn't release a phone every 5 minutes that looks like every other phone they make then maybe they would have a higher mp cam out now. Motorola have got the future of phone cameras in there phones and nokia fanboys hate it.
- stu
- 2008-05-04 04:07 ThQj
"yea just sit back and wait for a 5mp cam phone? dude we have had 5mp phones for like more than 2 years, i've had my n95 8gb for along time.........dude moto are way behind wow raw pics who gives crap what format cause at the end of the day its a freakin phone, not a professional camera, so your gonna be taking pics with your 5mp moto with has raw pics or whatever and taking pics of you and your friends with quality worse than the n73 while some other guy will have a nokia with 10mps, get a life man"
Since there isn't a period anywhere in this entire thing i'll just quote the entire thing. Having raw, while I don't really know what it is, if its a big deal then yes it is going to be quite a good feature. Simply put, people care about the camera in their phones, otherwise having a 2.0mp, 3.15, 5mp camera would not matter. People do care about the camera in their phones, thus this will be a big deal.
- 2008-05-03 23:38 5%rr
Motorola is knocked out. Motorola had to wait Kodak's help. That's shameful!
- 2008-05-03 23:05 PknW
Hope this guy gets quad-band and GOOD life.
- 2008-05-03 21:55 4qMA
this is just the beginning...
motorola rawks!!!
- max
- 2008-05-03 21:12 ibg1
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