Camera Phone Reviews

Samsung M610

CNET reviews the Samsung SPH-M610 and writes, "The SPH-M610's 2-megapixel camera takes pictures in five resolutions from 1,600x1200 down to 320x240. Other camera features include three quality settings, brightness and white balance controls, a spot metering multishot mode, a self-timer, 5 color effects, 10 fun frames, and a 4X zoom that's not usable at the highest photo resolution. There are also three shutter sounds plus a silent mode. The camcorder records clips in 176x144 resolution with sound; clips meant for multimedia messages are capped at 30 seconds or you can shoot for as long as the available memory will permit. Editing options were similar to the still camera. For easy photo printing, the SPH-M610 supports PictBridge technology for transferring images directly to a printer. In our tests, photo quality was good but not great. Colors were sharp and there was enough light, but unless we held the camera perfectly still (which was difficult to do) images tended to be blurry."

Infosync has a review of the Samsung SPH-M610 and finds the phone's camera to be mediocre: "Overall, the M610 might be better off without a camera. Image quality was average for camera phones, which is to say not that good. Though you can send pictures via MMS, Bluetooth, or to a printer using PICT Bridge, there is no digital zoom and no editing functions, so you'll have to hope for the best. The camera snaps and stores pictures quickly, but our review unit included only a 64MB of microSD -- enough for plenty of 2-megapixel pictures, but cramped if you're also downloading music. The hinged camera design is useless, as there is no option to flip the image once you have flipped the camera, so self-portraits were a guessing game. There were a few fun options, including a fly's eye-like burst of 16 tiled shots, but the resolution was too low on this option to create a usable image."

PCMag reviews the Samsung M610 and writes about the phone's camera: "The 2MP camera takes sharp but sometimes frustratingly dark photos. The camcorder mode is better, taking quite good 320-by-240, 15-frames-per-second videos that you can store in the 37MB of internal memory or on a MicroSD card crammed under the back cover, next to the battery. (My model came with a 64MB card.) You can transmit your photos to your PC or directly to a printer over Bluetooth or with a cable. Sadly, no cable is included, but the M610 uses the same accessories as the Samsung SYNC for Cingular and a few other recent Samsung models."

MobileTechReview reviews the Samsung SPH-M610 and writes, "If you have an old 2-3 megapixel digital camera, you can leave it at home. The M610 has an excellent built-in 2 megapixel camera with 10x digital zoom. The camera has a CMOS sensor that takes great photos. It doesn’t have the auto-focus feature found on the Samsung a990 and the Nokia N73’s 3.2 megapixel cameras, but it takes great photos that look better than other 2 megapixel camera phones. The M610’s photos have a very natural tone without any noticeable color cast, and it deals great with low light indoor and outdoor shots with good light balance and brightness. The images have good contrast without seeming stark or monochromatic. The only hard thing for the camera to deal with is very bright sunlight, and that’s a challenge for many camera phones."

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