| Design | 3.9/5 |
| Display & Interface | 3.5/5 |
| Calling | 4.5/5 |
| Talk time | 5/5 |
| Messaging | 3.4/5 |
| Music | 4/5 |
| Video | 3.4/5 |
| Camera | 4/5 |
| Memory | 3.5/5 |
| Web browsing | 3.3/5 |
| Connectivity | 3.5/5 |
| Productivity | 2.8/5 |
| Scheduling | 2.8/5 |
| Laptop sidekick | 2.8/5 |
| Navigation | 0/5 |
| Gaming | 2.5/5 |
| Mobile services | 3/5 |
| Accessories | 3.5/5 |
| Value | 4/5 |
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Pros:
Very good call quality with fantastic battery life. One of the best cameras we've seen on a phone. |
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Cons:
Still can't match a good compact point-and-shoot. Image transfer software buggy and useless. Messaging options limited. No 3G networking. |
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| The Motorola Zine is a phone that would be a good replacement for your low-end point-and-shoot camera, and that's the nicest compliment you can pay a cameraphone. It's a good phone, a pretty good camera, and a surprisingly capable multimedia and Web browsing device. The camera takes real, good-quality pictures, helped along by some agile post-processing, and we even enjoyed the full-size 8 by 10 inch prints we made directly from the device. Kodak et al. don't quite deliver on their promise of easy uploading, and we had trouble sending and managing our pics, probably caused by the phone's buggy OS, which was sluggish some times, and completely unresponsive at others. Still, if you can manage your own pics, and you're looking for a casual shooter that's also a fine phone, the Motorola Zine is a great choice. |
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