Camera Phone Reviews

The Helio Hero sports a 2.0 megapixel camera. More from the press release:

The jet-black Hero, produced by Pantech, is a multimedia powerhouse, featuring a virtual mobile entertainment center with a 2.2 inch, 262K-color high-resolution QVGA LCD display, industry-leading audio capabilities with full duplex stereo speakers, removable memory, and a 2.0 megapixel camera with digital zoom and flash for capturing pictures and video. Hero also packs a co-processor chip that delivers high-quality music and video for an exceptional entertainment experience, allowing for versatility in content and services like never before.

Via Engadget.

Infosync reviews the Helio Hero and isn't very impressed with the phone. About the phone's camera: "We weren't that pleased with the Kickflip's 2MP camera, which suffered from foggy and washed-out looking photos – and unfortunately, the Hero delivers more of the same. Our pictures looked disappointingly soft and hazy, far from what we'd expect in a 2-megapixel cameraphone, while our video captures looked murky and jumbled, which is pretty standard (you can shoot video at a resolution of 640 x 480, albeit at about 10fps). We did appreciate the sliding lens cover, and you get a solid set of camera features, including brightness and white-balance settings, an LED flash, a multishot mode, 4X digital zoom, a self timer (2, 5, and 10 seconds), and color effects. "

CNET reviews the Helio Hero and comments on the phone's camera: "The Hero's 2-megapixel camera produced decent pictures: a little blurry but still far beyond the VGA-quality photos of most camera phones and a touch better than photos from a 1.3-megapixel camera. You can take pictures in one of three resolutions (320x240, 240x320, and 240x180), five white-balance settings (Auto, Outside, Cloudy, Fluorescent, and Bulb), three quality settings (Super Fine, Fine, Normal), a multishot mode (up to 9 shots), and five camera modes (Auto, Portrait, Landscape, Portrait-Landscape, and Night), as well as with flash or no flash and six effects (None, Gray, Sepia, Purple, Blue, Green). You can also set the self-timer, turn on or off the preview screen, choose a Ready Sound (such as "Cheese!"), and set the shutter sound. The video recorder took expectedly low-res videos at 176x144 resolution."