Camera Phone Reviews

Motorola SLVR L7c

Update: Sprint Press Release

MOTOSLVR L7c is both Motorola's first CDMA SLVR handset and Sprint's first candy bar style high-speed EVDO consumer phone. The attractive MOTOSLVR L7c operates on Sprint's Power Vision(SM) Network enabling downloads of the latest news, music and entertainment content at broadband-like speeds. Key features include the access to Sprint Music Store for quick and easy over-the-air downloads, Sprint TV with live programming, Bluetooth® wireless technology**, a microSD™ card slot and a VGA camera.

ENTERTAINMENT

* Sprint Music Store(SM) provides over-the-air downloads of high-quality full digital songs*
* Sprint TV Enabled – More than 50 channels of content including live television*
* Built-in media player with MicroSD card slot
* Sprint PCS Picture Mail(SM) and Sprint PCS Video Mail*
* On Demand Services with up-to-date sports, weather and news information*
* MicroSD memory card slot

PRODUCTIVITY

* Integrated VGA camera and video camcorder
* Sprint PCS Picture Mail for sharing and printing digital pictures*
* Integrated Bluetooth® Wireless Technology**
* Phone as Modem capable
* Speaker independent name and digit dialing
* Office-quality speakerphone
* Text messaging, Instant Messaging and Voice SMS*
* Productivity Tools: Alarm clock, Calendar, Calculator, World Clock and more PERSONALIZATION
o Picture caller ID on color display*
o Downloadable Java® applications, games, ringtones and wallpaper*

SPECIFICATIONS

o Dimensions: 2.0" x 4.5" x 0.5"; 3.5 oz
o Display: 1.9" 65K-color TFT (176 x 220 pixels)
o Standard battery: Lithium ion battery provides up to approximately 3.6 hours of talk time***

All features, functionality and other product specifications are subject to change without notice or obligation.

*Airtime, data charges, and/or additional charges may apply.
**This device supports Bluetooth hands-free headset, file transfer, service discovery application, dial-up networking, object push for Vcard 2.1 and serial port profiles. In order for Bluetooth devices to communicate with one another, they must utilize the same Bluetooth profile. To determine the profiles supported by other Motorola devices, visit www.hellomoto.com/bluetooth. For other devices, contact their respective manufacturer. Certain Bluetooth features including those listed may not be supported by all compatible Bluetooth-enabled devices, and/or the functionality of such features may be limited in certain devices, or by certain wireless carriers. Contact your wireless carrier about feature availability and functionality.
***All talk and standby times are quoted in Digital Mode, and are approximate. Battery performance depends on network configuration, signal strength, operating temperature, features selected, and voice, data and other application usage patterns.

Motorola SLVR L7c Reviews

CNET reviews the Motorola SLVR L7c and writes, "Though it's no different from the Slvr L7, it's disappointing that a 3G multimedia-friendly handset such as the Slvr L7c has a low-grade VGA camera. A megapixel really is the bare minimum on a phone of this caliber. As such, the camera takes pictures in just three resolutions (640x480, 320x240, and 160x120), but you can choose from a number of editing options, including three quality settings, a self-timer, adjustable brightness and white balance settings, an 8x zoom, three color effects, three fun frames, and six shutter sounds (there's also a silent option). The camcorder shoots 30-second clips with sound. Editing options for videos are similar to those of the still camera. Photo quality wasn't too impressive--colors looked a bit washed-out, and objects were a bit fuzzy. Videos weren't remarkable either, with a lot of jerkiness. You're allotted a paltry 18MB of internal memory to store your work, but you can use a Micro SD card for more space."

Infosync reviews the Motorola SLVR L7c and writes, "The poor camera abilities of the SLVR L7c make us wonder why a camera was included at all. The sensor is a measly VGA resolution. The lens is lousy, with pictures that are grainy, blurry and so cool they look almost gray. Photo management is cryptic: the phone stores photos "On the camera," which can then be moved to the phone, though the difference isn't clear, or the external memory card. The phone has basic options to adjust white balance and color, and an 8X digital zoom, which makes poor photos look ridiculously bad, as well as some frame and special effect color options. Videos are equally bad, with a jerkiness and pixilation on the murky image. Photos can be e-mailed from the camera app, but there are no options for Bluetooth transfers or printing from the phone -- and that's probably for the best."

PCMag has a review of the Motorola SLVR L7c and writes, "The SLVR has two unusual voice characteristics. First, because the microphone is on the phone's right-hand side rather than the bottom, your transmissions will sound clearer if you hold the handset to the left-hand side of your face. Second, the phone has an unusual amount of "in-ear feedback," meaning that you can hear your own voice through the earpiece when you're talking. I like that, but some other people don't. ... Inside the handset is a built-in VGA camera that's so bad it should be ignored; it takes washed-out, noisy photos and jerky 176–by-144, 5-frames-per-second videos."