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Motorola joined forces with camera-giants Kodak to deliver a serious 5-megapixel shooter, to go head to head with Sony Ericsson and its Cyber-shot range.  The result was the Motorola MOTOZINE ZN5.

The ZN5 looks like any other average handset from the front but check around the back and the bulge tells you that this phone means business.  Underneath the lens is a 5-megapixel sensor, and although other phones have higher megapixel counts, this camera guarantees to produce better quality pictures because of Kodak’s secret clever processing.

When you open the lens, the menus are laid out in an organised manner making it easy to set up options like low light mode, white setting and flash settings.  The handset has a dedicated camera button and when you press it, you’ll notice very little shutter lag.

The camera comes with an inbuilt Xenon flash but because of the Kodak technology it takes great pictures in poor lighting even without the use of the flash.  The pictures look great on the ZN5’s screen but when you upload them to your computer, they don’t compare with a dedicated digital camera.  But compared to other phones, this handset is a cut above and easily rivals Sony Ericsson’s Cyber-shot range.

The ZN5’s menus make it easy to use other functions; the call quality is excellent and the battery life is good at over nine hours of talk time.  Another plus is that it has a 3.5mm headphone jack.

The let down of this phone is that although the camera is great, Motorola left off 3G support.