Camera Phone Reviews

QTEK 8500 Smartphone

The Unwired reviews the Qtek 8500 and finds the phone to be positive overall. The review notes, "On the front panel, the device is sporting a 1.3 megapixel camera, unfortunately without a photo light, and a second 1.2" display with 128x128 pixels which provides battery status, profile status, missed call and incoming call information as well as incoming message notification, alarm information, Bluetooth, volume up/down and GSM/GPRS status information. It can be also used as a mirror for self-portrait photos and shows all media player relevant information if the devices is used as a MP3 player. "

TrustedReviews reviews the Qtek 8500 and has this to say about the smartphone's camera: "The camera shoots at resolutions up to 1.3-megapixels (160 x 120, 320 x 240, 640 x 40 and 1,280 x 1,024), and has a maximum 8x digital zoom depending on the resolution you are shooting at. There are greyscale, sepia and cool effects as well as white balance presets for daylight, night, incandescent and fluorescent conditions and an auto and user tweakable option. Image quality is reasonable, but the software seemed to forget instructions I gave it between instances of turning the handset on and off, so that I had to remind it to save images to a memory card, for example."

TechWorld reviews the QTEK 8500 and writes, "The phone also isn't as nippy as you might like. There were occasions during the test when messages took a while to appear, and it seemed that the MP3 player suffered if you were using something complicated like the camera. That's the camera that doesn't have a light, by the way."

IT Reviews has a review of the Qtek 8500 and writes, "There is, of course, a camera and its lens is on the front of the handset. A button on the right side of the handset activates the camera with the flip closed, and the front screen turns into a viewfinder allowing you to take pictures of yourself. With the flip opened you can shoot what you are looking at, using the main screen as a viewfinder. Image quality isn't wonderful, but it is OK for those kinds of shots you want to send to other people from your handset or share over the Internet via your PC."

MobileTechReview reviews the Qtek 8500 and writes, "The 8500 is equipped with a 1.3M pixel camera but no self-portrait mirror… it’s party piece is to show your face in the external display if you call up the camera application whist the case is closed. The native resolution is 1280x1024, quality is on a par with other phone cameras; good for party snaps. As this is a purely open phone that has not been customized by a carrier so I had to carry out a great deal of configuration to get the MMS email function working; once there photos can be quickly snapped and sent to friends, relatives and insurance companies. What was nice was that the option to send snaps in full resolution through normal email was configured as soon as I set up my Active Sync. Video performance was on a par with its peers; a few frames a second at H.263 encoding. A gimmick only I’m afraid."

TechDigest reviews the QTEK 8500 and writes, "The phone also isn't as nippy as you might like. There were occasions during the test when messages took a while to appear, and it seemed that the MP3 player suffered if you were using something complicated like the camera. That's the camera that doesn't have a light, by the way. The messaging is also a bit clumsy. Unlike many phones, there aren't any shortcuts."