Motorola KRZR K1m Reviews
October 11th, 2006 - Posted in Motorola
PCMag reviews the Motorola KRZR K1M and writes, “I’m unenthusiastic, however, about the KRZR’s multimedia capabilities. V CAST’s video menu took a long time to load on my phone, the interface seemed sluggish, and videos were very choppy. Plus, while the V CAST Music store works smoothly, you have to open the phone and click at least three times before music starts playing. The external touch-sensitive buttons are pretty, but they can be both not sensitive enough (there’s no way to use them to start the music player if it isn’t already running) and too sensitive (once the music player is running, you can accidentally pause the music too easily.) At least the speaker is loud and games including Ducati 3D Extreme played adequately well. The phone uses a USB jack for headsets, but comes with an adapter for standard 2.5-mm headsets.
The phone’s video camera mode takes decent, 176 by 144 videos at 15 frames per second that you can store on your memory card. Unfortunately, the 1.3 megapixel still camera had serious trouble with fuzzing out edges in outdoor photos, and low-light shots tended to be blurry. “
MobileTechReview reviews the MOTOKRZR K1m and writes, “The 1.3 megapixel camera is good compared to other 1.3MP camera phones with generally correct exposure and pleasant colors. The camera sometimes sets color balance incorrectly, so some photos show a purple or overly warm color cast and there is noticeable JPEG noise, but it’s better than most (non-Nokia) smartphones and though as good as the 1.3MP LG phones on Verizon. The camera can take photos at a maximum resolution of 1280 x 1024 in JPEG format as well as lower resolutions for caller ID and MMS. It has a self-timer, multi-shot mode, brightness, contrast and white balance settings, color effects and you can turn off the shutter sound. If you close the flip, the outer LCD becomes your viewfinder which is handy for self-portraits.”