Camera Phone Reviews

Palm Treo 750v

Pocket-lint reviews the Palm Treo 750v and writes, "The main enhancement here over the recently announced BlackBerry Pearl is the 3G connectivity and this makes surfing the Internet considerably faster as long as you are out of the office. Likewise the fact that it is runs Microsoft's Windows Mobile 5 operating system means that there are plenty of add-on applications to suit most people's needs."

CNET reviews the Palm Treo 750v and writes, "Flip the Treo 750v on to its back and you'll see a lens and self-portrait mirror for the built-in 1.3-megapixel camera. With no flash, indoor shots are somewhat hit and miss, though the resolution means you'll probably just want shots for email and MMS purposes, not for keeping or printing. More annoying still, there is no front-facing camera for video calling. The 3G capability of this smart phone, then, is definitely data only."

VnuNet reviews the Palm Treo 750v and writes, "The phone feels responsive to use thanks to a Samsung 300MHz processor and 128MB of storage, of which 60MB is available to the user. Battery life is quoted as 4.5 hours talk time or 10 days standby. During testing, we found the phone lasted two working days with casual phoning, emailing and web browsing."

TreoCentral reviews the Palm Treo 750v and writes, "You get exactly the kind of pictures you'd expect from a 1.3 megapixel camera with a lens the size of a raisin. Mediocre at best. Although you can also set both the resolution and compression level, the pictures are full of artifacts, odd exposures, and strange focal points. Worse: the shutter lag takes the snap out of snapshot. Quick photos are what make a Treo camera wonderful. ... the camera on the 750v is really designed for business purposes -- to take pictures of contacts and link them to information. The 750v, as positioned here in Europe, is almost exclusively a business proposition, and I suppose for that reason the camera is adequate. ... In any case, the camera is still pretty good if you can ignore the shutter lag."

ITReviews reviews the Palm Treo 750v and writes, "There is a camera for stills and video, though at 1.3-megapixels this too feels a bit behind the times. And there's no front-facing camera for video calling. ... On the other hand, the Treo 750v has a generous 60MB of free internal memory and a miniSD card slot for expansion, some neat additions to the Windows Mobile operating system and great one-handed usability."

The Gadgeteer reviews the Palm Treo 750v and writes, "The first obvious thing that you will notice about the 750v is its lack of an external antenna on the upper left corner. You might worry that a lack of an external antenna might cause reception to suffer. I've actually found that the 750v gets better reception than my 650. I've been able to use the 750v in places where my 650 would have problems with dropped calls and bad audio. ... The camera built into the 750v seems to be worse than the crummy camera built into the 650. Which seems odd to me because the 650 is only a .3 megapixel and the 750v is a 1.3 megapixel. ... the image taken with the 750v is noticeably blurrier. Disappointing.."

the unwired reviews the Palm Treo 750v and writes, "If you just want record your own videos or snap photos, you can use the 1.3 megapixel camera. It's not too bad but as for most Windows Mobile devices, far away what other mobile phones have to offer today ... For SMS and MMS, Palm added a separate application but it's not just a cheap copy of the Windows Mobile Inbox but it can do even more. From this Messaging application you can write SMS and MMS message. "

Geekzone reviews the Palm Treo 750v and writes, "If you are into capturing moments, the built-in 1.3 megapixel digital camera won’t disappoint you. Although not a high-end camera by any measure, it actually products really nice shots and good mp4 video recordings. New users have nothing to worry about: a mini tutorial is available on the device itself, showing all the potential and the basics for the best operation."

SiliconRepublic reviews the Palm Treo 750v and writes, "I think Palm traditionalists will get over their initial culture shocks in no time. The device is a 3G-enabled phone – ideal for net surfing – and features Bluetooth, a Windows Media Player and can read Word, Excel, PDF and PowerPoint files. I must admit the 1.3 megapixel camera is a little underwhelming. Superb sound quality during calls more than makes up for this."

ITWeek reviews the Palm Treo 750v and writes, "Although there are many Windows Mobile 5.0 handsets, Palm has customised the user interface of the Treo 750v to make key functions easy to access. ... The Treo is narrower than a typical BlackBerry handset, and a BlackBerry user would probably find its keyboard cramped by comparison. However, we found we could enter text at a reasonable speed by cradling the device in two hands and using thumbs to type. Although the Treo has a touch screen, dedicated “OK�? and Windows menu keys mean that the stylus is hardly required and most functions can be accessed via the keypad. Another new feature of the 750v is a rubberised case that makes it more comfortable to grip."

MobileBurn reviews the Palm Treo 750v and writes about the phone's camera: "Although the Treo 750v is a 3G phone, it does not support video conferencing. There is only one camera, which is on the back with a tiny self-portrait mirror next to the speaker grille holes. The sensor is a 1.3 megapixel CMOS, which is slightly below average. Picture quality turned out average, though the camera does not give much in the way of options for image adjustment. Users are only given the choice of resolution, compression, timer, burst mode, and memory in use. As Palm put it, the camera on Treo 750v is indeed "very easy to use," but don't expect much."

PocketNow reviews the Palm Treo 750 and writes, "The 1.3 Megapixel camera is nothing special as you would expect. It doesn't look like Palm did anything to customize the software interface on this. ... Oddly the Treo 750 does not fair too well in the benchmark tests even compared to the Treo 700w with half as much memory. In real life, the Treo 750 feels much faster than any of my devices with a 200Mhz TI OMAP processor which can occasionally be bogged down my excessive multitasking."