Motorola and Kodak Take on Camera Phone

Motorola has joined forces with Kodak to bring a new camera phone--Motozine ZN5--to market.

As a promotion for the phone the two companies had eight photographers take photographs of their city with the phone. Then the two companies collaborated to put a video together with the resulting photographs.

The camera phone was unveiled at a gallery event in Beijing. The camera is an ultra-fast 5 megapixel model with auto-focus, a Xenon flash, 4GB of optional external memory3 and settings for low-light environments.

The phone has ZN5 features Motorola’s patented CrystalTalkTM technology to help callers hear and be heard, even in noisy environments. With dual compatibility for GSM and Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), users can connect in more areas around the world2 and enjoy high-speed wireless connections to surf the Web via a full HTML browser2. ZN5 also supports SMS, MMS, IM and personal e-mail2.