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
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
- 2008-05-03 20:27 04$p
I told you guys Moto won't go down without a fight!!!!!
The ZN5 is only the beginning. This particular model is not Motorola's flagship, take note. It will only ship to Asian markets so expect the ZN5 to be only a LOW-TIER camera phone from Motorola. Even if the ZN5 is low tier, it already sports RAW uncompressed picture formats for maximum quality (without compression formats like JPEG). The 8mp and 12mp ones are still in development and these will pack bigger punches. The "bad" pics you saw are like that because the ZN5 is only in the prototype stage, so do not yet turn your backs on this phone. Motorola and Kodak still have the time to refine their camera phones so just sit back and wait for the big ones.
- jjsoviet
- 2008-05-03 20:09 0iWV
IT is very beautifull...
Thank you MOTOROLA...
- 2008-05-03 19:44 0CWZ
IT'S NOT OVER YET!
accdg to one blogger here (with the name: MotoMania), Motorola is about to launch 5Megapix, 8megapix, and the astounding 12megapixel cameraphone line-ups.. so this one is not yet the end of it all,, maybe Motorola is just trying to attract attention while being thrifty on informations & publications so as to promote excitement,,that's what i see here..it's like having the child run after a piece of candy in a hard-to-get mode..haha
- Rick (tm)
- 2008-05-03 18:02 vj1k
wow....damn ugly....please try to copy iphone....at least
- alan
- 2008-05-03 16:56 BJP9
Looks like motorola now has the most advanced mobile camera in there phones. A 5mp kodak camera with raw and a xenon and led flash. If you don't know what raw is then you know nothing about cameras or have been living under a rock. Nokia better hurry up now because there cameras are yesterdays news. Its all about uncompressed media these days. Oh and to all those people that are saying those photos are crap. Its a prototype phone. Look that word prototype up sometime.
- stu
- 2008-05-03 13:58 ThQj
Poor Moto. Motorola is going bankrupt very soon. These phones are just horrible! I havent seen that crappy pictures since 1995.
- Jorgen
- 2008-05-03 13:11 mJ8K
I think too many people here are caught up with the idea the the ZN5 is actually Motorola's Flagship product?
In fact this 2.5G version is meant for the Chinese market which does not have a 3G Platform at the moment.
And read this: The ZN5 is a mass-market solution, low to mid-range model.
- ZN5
- 2008-05-03 12:13 TIEh
nice and slim phone but the camera is very poor. But this isnt the final version so we will see.
- kirt
- 2008-05-03 11:37 myM}
So UGLY!!!! I like Kodak, but now with Moto?!?! WHAT A WASTE!
- 2008-05-03 11:30 Ycr8
and we see foto from kodak and motorola is the best
- Mr.lol
- 2008-05-03 10:39 mMwe
1-->N82
2-->K850I
3-->ZN5
- Mr.lol
- 2008-05-03 10:38 mMwe
http://www.mobile01.com/print....t=595551&p=1 look here. there foto k850 n82 and zn5
- Mr.lol
- 2008-05-03 10:36 mMwe
To MdN,
Hate doing this, but...those photos cannot be taken in the evening, and definitely not at night. The pictures are obviously shot in a city in Mainland China, my guess would be SZ, and take a look at the traffic, it should be the kind of traffic happens in 2-4pm, right before rush hours. Of course the weather seems a bit hazy, I seriously don't think this should be considered low-light condition. If you still have any doubts about the pictures being taken in the afternoon, take a good look at the head lights of the cars, yes, none of the cars have their head lights turned on. Why does people drive without turning on their head lights? I don't know, maybe it's because they are driving in day time? And then please take a look at the picture of the football field, at the very left hand side of the picture, there is obviously a clock tower showing the time of 4:30, considering the number of people playing in the field, I doubt the possiblity of 4:30am. In a way, every camphone can do better than this. Ya...way to go, Motorola, way to go SOUTH! It's ok to try to defend something, just try to make some sense out of it, OK?
- Ken Hakeem
- 2008-05-03 10:08 TIU9
i have seen the full res pic sample. Not impressed indeed, if compare to those from my N82. BUt Finally, after bloody 3 year staying on 2 mpx. Moto come up with something that can catch the eyes from the highend user group.
It will be interesting to see if the OS can become another smartphone platform, one more open than windows mobile. We should give Moto some support for their effort.
- 2008-05-03 10:07 P%rn
"At this point, Motorola should not try too hard to come up with useless "innovations"( what the hell is RAW mode??)"
I bet you haven't used DSLR yet. ZN5 RAW mode enables the camera to produce uncompressed/unprocessed pic so that later it may be converted to any compression format. this is quite useful as it saves as much detail and resolution as the camera can discern.
- razec
- 2008-05-03 09:31 2A3m
At this point, Motorola should not try too hard to come up with useless "innovations"( what the hell is RAW mode??)they should produce stylish phones with acceptable funtionality with a slightly lower price point than nokia and SE, u know, mass market solutions..slowly gain momentum in sales and revenue, then, start to overcome competiotrs with fresh ideas
- 2008-05-03 08:53 ibgs
Now are these sample photos pictures of paintings, because the image quality is so blotchy that it is almost artistic. Considering this the first camera on a Motorola phone (or at least that I know of) that has a higher resolution than 2 mega pixels, they should have had plenty of time to refine it. The ZN5 looks like the phone that could bring Motorola back up in the ranks and it should have a good camera to go with it. Hopefully this picture quality is only a problem on the prototype.
- reviewer
- 2008-05-03 08:47 4QjA
Oh! Common Moto! is this the best u can do?
- 2008-05-03 03:33 PTE}
Motorola Rulez haha...!
- lkw
- 2008-05-03 02:37 ibbu
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