Camera Phone Reviews

Samsung M520

Samsung M520 Reviews

CNET reviews the Samsung M520 and writes, "The 1.3-megapixel camera takes pictures in four resolutions (1.3-megapixel, high, medium, and low) and three quality settings. Other options include a self timer, five fun frames, five color tones, brightness and white balance controls, a night mode, a 2x zoom and four shutter sounds (plus a silent option). The camcorder shoots clips with sound and a set of editing options similar to the still camera. Clips for multimedia messages are capped at 30 seconds in length; otherwise you can shoot for as long as the available memory permits. When finished with your work you can save them to the phone or use Sprint's PictBridge service for sending photos directly to a PC via a USB cable. The SPH-M520's internal memory is small at 16MB, but you can use the microSD card slot for more storage. A 64MB card comes in the box, but the phone will accommodate cards up to 4GB. The camera menus are easy to use but we noticed that they were a bit sluggish. On the other hand, photo quality was sharp."

CrunchGear reviews the Samsung M520 and writes, "One feature that piqued my interest was the music player and the ability to put it in the background while you surf the Web or text message. The music player itself stinks and you won’t have much control over what’s going on other than playing, deleting or stopping tracks, which is fine because the M520 isn’t a music-centric device. It will, however, shut off when navigation is enabled or you want to use the camera/video recorder. You can download tracks from the Sprint Music Store or just load some content onto the microSD card like I did. I even got it to work with some mp3s I purchased through iTunes. Speaking of navigation, services are provided by Telenav and it works like a charm. The 1.3-megapixel camera works about as good as any other camera with the same resolution. The same goes for video quality. The conditions have to be perfect."