Camera Phone Reviews

Sprint Mogul (HTC)

Sprint Mogul Reviews

LaptopMag reviews the HTC Mogul and writes, "We don't have many complaints about the 2-MP camera. Some indoor shots had a reddish cast, but overall we were impressed with the amount of detail the Mogul delivered. Okay, we lied about not having complaints. The zoom doesn't work at the highest resolution. Videos recorded with the camcorder function were virtually jitter-free when played back on our notebook. Just don't expect YouTube-worthy footage; the maximum resolution is only 176 x 144 pixels."

CNET reviews the Sprint Mogul and writes, "The camera settings are on a par with those of the other Windows Mobile 6 devices with the bonus of including a flash; you have your choice of five resolutions, four quality settings, white-balance control, and various effects. There's also a self-timer, a time-stamp option, a picture counter, and flicker adjustment, among other things. For video, the Mogul can capture clips with or without sound in MPEG-4, Motion JPG, or H.263 format. There are only two resolution choices, but you get the same white balance and color effect settings. ... Picture quality was mixed. While colors were bright, particularly the oranges and yellows, the overall image had a hazy effect to it. It's fine for contact pictures and quick snapshots for multimedia messages and e-mail but not much more than that. Video quality wasn't much better, and it was murkier than the T-Mobile Wing."

MobileTechReview reviews the HTC Mogul and writes, "The Mogul has a 2 megapixel CMOS camera with an LED flash. Though the final press release we received states that the camera has an autofocus lens, we saw no evidence of this: there's no on-screen focusing as with other autofocus camera phones, there's none of the usual auto-focus shutter delay and image quality isn't up to autofocus standards. Image quality is similar to the T-Mobile Wing and not quite as good as the 8525. The Mogul is guilty of severe over-sharpening to the point that actual detail is sometimes obliterated by JPEG sharpening artifacts, even when the quality (and thus sharpening) is turned down. Sharpening is especially noticeable in foreground objects, with background objects (in landscape type shots) lacking detail and clarity. Colors tend toward the cyan: in our sample photos, the buddha is dark gray with no hint of blue and the pool is not the electric blue seen in the photo. But as camera phones go, it's not a disaster, though it's not one of the top US 2.0 MP camera phones on the market today."

Infosync reviews the HTC Mogul and writes, "The phone features a 2-megapixel camera, which is as lousy as any cameraphone's lens, and hardly worth using, except in a pinch. We were nearly giddy to find a panorama stitching feature on the camera, but our shots dumbfounded us. The panorama is limited to a 480 pixel width, so our five-panel shot came out 480 by 105 pixels, which is miniscule. It simply does not make sense that, as you add panels to the panorama, the image gets smaller and thinner. The feature was completely wasted."

PCMag reviews the Sprint Mogul by HTC and writes, "The Mogul makes a decent but not great phone. It paired with our Plantronics mono and stereo Bluetooth headsets easily and without clicking sounds. Sound through the earpiece is loud and clear, and the speakerphone goes to an adequate, if not thundering, volume, though we were disappointed with the transmission quality from both the microphone and speakerphone: Calls sounded very scratchy on the other end. ... The Mogul has a 2-megapixel camera, but we weren't impressed: It wasn't very sharp, it blew out bright areas, and it had serious blur problems in low light. It has a lot of scene modes, though. The 176-by-144 video mode takes unusually jerky 15 frames-per-second videos."

MobileBurn reviews the HTC Mogul for Sprint and writes, "The camera takes reasonable photos, but without auto-focus the Mogul will likely give few people reason to leave their dedicated point and shoot cameras at home. In terms of music, the Mogul synchronized easily enough with the copy of Windows Media Player that was running on my desktop computer. The Mogul supports Bluetooth stereo headphones, as mentioned earlier, and a pair of wired headphones is included in the retail package. An included adapter allows the Mogul to be used with 2.5mm stereo headphones and headsets as well (though not with standard 3.5mm jack equipped headphones)."

Gadgetnutz reviews the Sprint Mogul and writes, "The Mogul has a 2 megapixel camera but did not impress me with it's hard-to-use interface. Instead of using words to tell you what you are about to click on it uses pictures that vaguely describe the option. I found this frustrating but in time I got used to it. The camera it self is nice, taking good quality photos of friends, family, and foliage. The video on it was great and helped me a lot when my camera ran out on a trip. Although the camera itself works well it takes a bit too long to load up."

Mobility Site reviews the Sprint Mogul and writes, "The pictures and video taken with the onboard 2.0 mega pixel camera were decent, but not great. The camera software was far from intuitive. It took me awhile to get my bearings and learn to shoot. The one setting I did like on the camera was the panoramic shot setting. This setting actually allows the user to take three regular overlapping pictures that are then automatically merged together into one wide panorama. The pictures I took were great for emailing, little else. Video is okay, but you’ll still want something better, even for YouTube."

InfoSync reviews the HTC Mogul and writes, "Even though Sprint has answered some of our earlier complaints with the Mogul update, there are still a few issues we wouldn't mind seeing sorted out. Though HTC's sliders are very well built, they are infamous for lagging graphics capabilities, and the Mogul couldn't keep up switching its screen orientation as we opened and closed the slide. We'd also like to see more instant messaging options built in, instead of settling for just MSN Live. While we're adding software, how about the Opera browser instead of Internet Explorer, as well?"