Motorola MOTOZINE ZN5 Specs

Bottom line this is a strong durable and reliable phone. Takes great pictures which are worth printing out. Thin and nice fits in pockets even with the camera lens there.Dropped many times still great,many people complain about constant turns offs and ons its true but all you have to do is take some electrical tape and wrap around edge so battery is tighter. Only 2 bad things Memory card location and Video quality is well ehh ok. Great music player too nice clarity and loud. Thanks P.S So Durable that i can even play football with this in my pocket.

 I don't know what everyone is complaining about. I bought this phone used 8 months ago and I drop it probably 3 times a day and it still works. I climb up shelves all the time at work to put things away and this phone has fallen out of my pocket ( darn tiny/shallow female pant pockets, I'm jealous of the deep pockets men have) from around 10-15 ft above tile flooring and lands face down, "exploding" everywhere (back comes off and battery falls out), and has dings and dents in every corner and it still works perfectly. My little brother steals my phone and chucks it on our tile floor. it's been stepped on. This thing has been through A LOT of abuse and IT STILL WORKS GREAT!! I mean my sister's classmate dropped her new phone 2 feet onto carpet and the screen cracked. This lil guy is amazing. The only problem I have is with charging but I think it's just because my charger is broken. It charges fine with my sister's charger. The person that complained about the battery reading just needs to learn how this phone displays the battery meter. It'll be less bars when you plug it in to charge because that shows how much battery life your phone currently has and when you unplug it it'll add another bar to it because it now has more than the amount previously shown. It'll display full bars but show the correct amount a few seconds later (mine takes 2 seconds) because the phone display starts at full and subtracts accordingly after you unplug it. Just the way it was designed. Not a glitch: there's nothing wrong with it. Sometimes it does turn off by itself. I'm guessing thats just because the battery is a bit loose. I solved the problem by sticking in a small folded piece of paper like a fortune from a fortune cookie. Hasn't turned off or restarted on it's own since. The camera is great! I love it! I take a lot of pictures and never had a problem with my camera. I can zoom up super close and see all the intricate details in my pictures. Sometimes it takes a little longer to view my pictures (around 15 secs) but that's probably because the phone memory is close to being full. The music quality is pretty good. I had a Motorola ROKR before and it's pretty much the same thing. If I were to pick between the two I'd choose the ZN5. It plays pretty loud and well for a phone designed for pictures. I love it. I text a lot and occasionally it'll lag behind a few letters because I text pretty fast. I text throughout the day (10,000-8,000 texts a month) so my phone gets a lot of usage and abuse. It hasn't let me down yet. It's a solid phone. I have no idea what all the other people are complaining about. It's great! Despite all the abuse it's gone through it has out lasted my cousins' blackberries, sidekicks, razrs, and all the other phones they go through every year. Plus I like the size. Fits in my hand. not too big not too small. I dont like that I have to charge it every night though. Its pretty reasonable considering how much I use it throughout the day though. and it charges pretty fast (around 2-3 hours from completely dead to full). I would not complain about battery unless compared to my boyfriend's international phone the has a WAY longer battery life and he texts more than I do and it also has a 5 megapixel camera. He can text and use his phone all day for 2-3 days and not have to charge. I'm jealous of those darn international high tech phones!! still love my phone though! 

Exceptional mobile phone. Actually I consider it to be the Motorola’s MASTERPIECE. Motorola is known to manufacture mobile phones with rock solid built quality using top notch & expensive materials like steel, aluminum, mineral glass rather than glossy plastic commonly used by Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, LG. This always has been Motorola’s strong point. The ZN5 is no exception either; it is almost built in metal & has a thick scratch resistant mineral glass over the TFT display matrix which is excellent. The assembly quality is truly exceptional. All the parts sit tight, there’s no slightest play between the details. The handset feels like a monolith. The casing frame and the side edges are painted silver. The surface coating sports a very high quality. The back panel uses metal as well, though the lower part is rubber, which is very practical – the scratches and worn spots are kept away. The Motorola ZN5 measure 12mm in thickness, which is a rather nice achievement - it actually puts it in Top 5 of slimmest 5 MP camera phones. The body thickness however increases around the camera area to up to 16mm.The display in ZN5 is way ahead of the European contenders like Nokia & Sony Ericsson. Actually mobile phones which are manufactured in Japan by Japanese companies have exceptional displays & generally are way better than the European counterparts. Just think about top LCD screen manufactures of the world – Sharp, Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba, JVC,etc all reside in Japan. Whereas European mobile phone manufactures use TFT displays manufactured by local European companies, Motorola uses TFT display manufactured by Sharp Corporation of Japan. The display has class leading brightness and contrast levels, the colors are maximally natural and saturated. Undeniably, the best 2.4 inch QVGA display to adorn a mobile phone so far.The morphing keypad, called ModeShift and first introduced in Motorola E8, is also present in ZN5. It's got haptic feedback on every key press and key designations and backlight change in accordance to the currently used application and makes life a lot easier instead of running through menus & submenus of the current running application.The phone is all about the camera and it does not disappoint on this ground. Believe me, it is the BEST 5 MP CAMERA PHONE with the most advanced 5 MP CMOS camera module currently available on the market today, make no mistake about it. It uses Carl Zeiss optics and has mechanical shutter like Nokia N82. On the review of www.mobiset.ru they compared the pictures taken by ZN5 & Nokia N82 [ZN5 only contender] of a same object (say a poster) located far away under high magnification and found that ZN5’s picture contains higher level of details and better color saturation than N82. The Kodak's participation has brought the Kodak Perfect Touch technology to the ZN5 which can make any picture taken look sharper & brighter. Motorola ZN5 is also the industry first to introduce VARIABLE APERTURE technology in the camera unit of a mobile phone. In layman's terms, theory says the variable aperture allows the camera to choose either the benefit of better-than-standard light sensitivity or better-than-standard sharpness throughout the photo. The ZN5 camera will offer two apertures values. Technically the photos at smaller apertures (indicated by a larger F-stop value) should be sharper and with larger depth of field than photos shot by any other 5 MP camera phones on the market. The camera will automatically pick between F2.8 (the standard for all camera phones) and F5.6 (when there is enough light). Now that may not mean much to you, but a tighter aperture such as F5.6 will actually bring less lens issues and better corner-to-corner sharpness.  ZN5 has the most powerful xenon flash found on any mobile phone. It can take pictures at pitch dark with ease because of xenon flash and produce bright pictures. The ZN5 also offers direct image upload to KODAK Gallery, as well as integration of the ShoZu client, which can upload images to various social networking clients.The hardware found in ZN5 almost represents the hardware of a stealth fighter plane i.e. built to kill its opposition. Running on a Freescale MXC275-30 platform having 532 MHz ARM11 applications processor & 208MHz Digital Signal Processor (DSP) speaks for itself. It has 64 MB RAM & 128 MB ROM. Also it has two Image Processing Units (IPU) instead of one, one is the Freescale IPU that comes with the MXC275-30 platform capable of handling up to 2 MP images & the other is Texas Instruments dedicated DM299 IPU which has a ARM7 processor embedded in it capable of handling up to 5 MP images. Thus ZN5 thus have hardware capable of handling 5+2=7 MP images and thus can handle image & video much better than any of its 5 MP opposition. Internal memory is 512 MB which is huge, no opposition can match that and also you can extend it up to 4GB with a microSD card.Audio sound quality from the music player is awesome. Believe me some of the renowned Russian websites like www.smape.com, www.mobile-review.com, etc known for their thorough review have told that the ZN5 can challenge the mighty Apple iPod on this ground which, literally speaking is phenomenal for any mobile phone. Stereo Bluetooth (A2DP), 3.5mm audio/video jack (TV-out) all adds to the list making it a perfect choice instead of a dedicated portable music player. After using Nokia N82, Sony Ericsson K850 and also Samsung, LG phones of the same price range, I have to accept that ZN5 is the best of them all when it comes to PURE SOUND QUALITY. It's not much of a secret that every music phone manufacturer does everything to outreach its competitors in the sound quality. Now, one has to know the difference between sound quality & volume. The ICEpower audio chips commonly found in Samsung mobile phones boosts sound volume which has no effect on the quality making them one of the loudest in the market. Both Motorola & Nokia tends to put more emphasis in the idea that quality should prevail over volume. The utilization of dedicated DSPs in Nokia & Motorola offers an unmatched quality of sound since DSP puts into action sophisticated algorithms & advanced audio codec’s to improve the audio signal rather than making the sound louder. The DSP separates unwanted noise from the audio signal, and only then is passed to the amplifier. ZN5 utilizes a dedicated 208 MHZ StarCore SC140e DSP and a selection of advanced audio codec’s. The Spatial Audio technology polishes the resulting audio signal to a state of perfection rarely seen on a mobile phone these days. I also looked in the RMAA sound test graphs as published by different websites, the sound characteristic needs no explanation, because we face one of the best decisions at the personal audio market, ZN5 is not ashamed to compare itself with players from Creative ZEN, Sony, Cowon or even Apple iPod. I am dealing with one of the best solutions for pure listening pleasure, with a clean sound devoid of any colorings, embellishment or ornamentation in the sound, commonly found in Sony Ericsson phones. Now I can easily hear many of the previously obscure details in the compositions of a complicated music composition, and if desired, with a quality headset, can clearly set apart all the instruments used in the music composition, thus I am able to focus not only on the primary instrument, which is audible, but also on the fact that what instrument I want to hear. Setting the radio stations on the inbuilt radio is a lengthy process, but I don’t mind simply because the radio have amazingly strong reception quality and the sound is loud, crisp and crystal clear making it the best radio I have seen so far on any mobile phone.This mobile phone is capable of playing videos of very high bitrates (Higher bitrates means better quality) due to its 2 IPU’s & 208 Mhz DSP. Bitrates as high as 240x320@25fps, 1100 kbps can be played easily.Besides functionality, the quality of assembly and materials is the lodestone around which a phone’s success is built, playing a decisive role in the customer’s choice. Better materials and assembly allow a handset to live longer and sustain more damage. A very famous website www.smape.com did a rigorous durability test on ZN5 and at first rode over the ZN5 lying in the road on a SUV weighing 2.5 tones. The ZN5 passed with flying colors. Only the mineral glass cover over the display was cracked but the mobile phone operated normally receiving calls, playing music etc. Then they put it in a freezer for several hours at sub zero temperature, then did a spin in a washing machine for an 30 minutes, dropped it from the hand several times, merged it in a glass of beer and lastly cleaned it in running tap water. After that they dried it for a night besides a room heater and it started working the next morning!!! I think this is enough of an example of the phone’s durability. Later dismantling the phone, looking at the hardware it was found that while Motorola avoids using glue as much as possible while making the phone (much favored by Sony Ericsson), and the ZN5 is also  remarkable for a total lack of technical apertures on the chip, commonly found under all onboard components in Nokia and Samsung products. Please don’t take this point for an attempt to start another holy war, an ordinary consumer shouldn’t normally get concerned about this sort of things. Every company does their best to minimize the production costs, but somehow it’s ZN5 alone that uses metal not only for product image purposes (like the face and back panel pieces), but inside the casing as well – to ensure a maximum durability. What goes to the above-mentioned apertures, those have a bad habit of harboring condensated moisture, leading to the decay of neighboring components and lowering the chances for successful recovery after drowning. These subtle nuances concealed from the buyer is what constitutes the difference in lifespan of differently crafted products.I cannot stop praising the phone isn’t it!! One has to remember ZN5 is a smartphone since it comes with an MOTOMAGX LJ 6.3 operating system (Linux) and not just plain Java software. So third party software’s and modding options are limitless.  Also Motorola’s renowned CrystalTalk technology is also present which suppresses unwanted background noise while talking with the phone.Lastly, I want to say even if it sounds demoralizing, that there is no phone in the world that happens to be absolutely perfect. Every phone has its pros and cons and it depends on the user needs that how the person will rate his/her phone.