Review: Motorola Devour
The 3 megapixel camera on the Motorola Devour is quite poor, and its images are nearly unusable. Colors look drab and grey, though the camera did keep from blowing out red hues, a common problem on small image sensors. Details were almost completely lost, however. The camera has no auto focus, so I couldn't get close enough for fine details. At full crop, the camera produced a jarring, jagged effect on almost every edge I searched, almost as if this were really a 1 megapixel sensor blowing the photos up too large. Photos might work in a pinch, if you're desperate and you happen to come across a sasquatch crossing the road, but this will not be definitive proof you saw Bigfoot.
Video quality from the Motorola Devour's camcorder was as bad as the still image quality. The camcorder can record videos at VGA resolution, but the frame rate was very low, sometimes dipping lower than 10 fps. Outdoor videos looks pretty good, but indoor videos were grainy and pixilated and the camcorder seemed to render a bit green, with no way to adjust the white balance. While the camera was moving, videos looked a blur. As light levels changed, the Devour's camcorder couldn't keep up, and even dimly lit spots would get blown out as the camcorder failed to properly shift from dark to light areas.
Check out my sample video from the Motorola Devour's camcorder:
3GPP / MPEG-4 format (viewable with QuickTime)
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Motorola Devour
