Several years ago, Motorola and Kodak, two huge long known for innovation and leadership in their respective fields, signed a partnership. The deal meant to bring Kodak’s imaging expertise to Motorola’s phones to try to fight the Nokia-Carl Zeiss partnership, as well as Sony-Ericsson’s Cyber-shot solutions which it borrowed from it’s Japanese parent.
Well, the first product of that partnership is here. The new Motorola MotoZINE ZN5 sports a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, a xenon flash, and of course, that all-important Kodak imaging software.
One look at this phone’s camera and you know that it means business. The first sign that it does: Kodak branding on it. And it does protrude from the phone’s rear, thankfully, in a good way.
As said earlier, the lens is flanked by a powerful xenon flash which is great for taking pictures in the dark. The Kodak imaging software helps improve the picture quality a lot, and Motorola were kind enough to include wifi in the phone to make it easy to upload photos to Kodak’s photo sharing community.
Aside from imaging, the ZN5 also has Motorola’s ModeShift technology, that is this phone also has a morphing keypad ala MOTOROKR E8.
There are 8 megapixel phones coming soon, but for now, your best bet for best imaging in a phone is probably this, the MotoZINE ZN5.
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