Camera Phone Reviews

The Motorola V710 isn't just a camera phone, it's a camera phone with the same high standards of a stand-alone digital camera. The difference is the high-resolution 1.2-megapixel camera with auto timer to help ensure that the memorable moments you capture are just the way you remember. the V710 captures video, has an integrated MP3 player, Expandable Memory, Bluetooth and Speech Recognition.

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Mobileburn reviews the Motorola V710 and writes - 'By virtue of its having a megapixel camera, you might assume that the V710 offers a lot in terms of multimedia functions. You'd be correct in assuming that. For example, nothing backs up a 1.2 megapixel camera like a big 2.2" 262k color display. The V710's display is really bright and crisp. It isn't as nice as a Sharp GX-30's display, but you won't have any complaints about it. The external 4k color sub-display, though, has a real obvious blue color cast to it. Regardless, it is still easy to read and serves its purpose well enough.

The V710's 1.2 megapixel camera is an average performer. There is a decent amount of blurring and purple/blue fringing to be seen in images taken with the V710 at just about any resolution. I have a few sample photos to show you, but not nearly enough. The reason for this is that Verizon has the phone restricted to having images uploaded to their VZWpix.com website if you want to get a photo off of the phone. This would be bad in any case, but it is all the more compounded by the fact that the upload procedure and website are both very unreliable at best. I thought I had a way around this when I saw the option to copy/move images to the TransFlash card. I copied a few over to the card (not included) and then put the card in the SD adapter and into a card reader on my PC. I could see the images, but they were not valid. It appears that the files are garbled in some way that the V710 will recognize, but that a PC will not. It is probably something simple, and I assume some 3rd party will make an application that will fix them eventually.'

Time magazine has a review of the Motorola V710 and writes - 'Using new technology, the V710 provides obvious conveniences not found in other Verizon Wireless phones: with Bluetooth, I can use a wireless headset or speakerphone ($60 and up, sold separately) in the car, eliminating the possibility of me accidentally wrapping a wire around the emergency-brake lever. Add to that the magical "speaker independent" voice recognition from VST — an amenity I praised last February as both safe and handy. In the relative calm of my home, the phone's built-in speakerphone provides a great way to check messages and make calls.'

Gizmodo reviews the Motorola V710 and writes - 'the V710 rocks at making phone calls. Unfortunately, there are a lot of phones that rock at making phone calls that don't cost $300. Don't buy this phone for the features, unless you just can't live without a CDMA/Bluetooth phone and you only want Bluetooth so you can use the phone as a modem or utilize the earpiece. The V710 is so very close to being rad that I hate to have to pan it, but it just ain't there yet.'

Update: Verizon Wireless has relaunched the Motorola V710, which will be availble online only, with a special offer ending November 2, 2005.