Review: Samsung M570 Restore
Camera
The Restore has a 2 megapixel camera that takes OK pictures. You can open it from the menus or the dedicated camera button. It opens fast enough.
The options include the usual crop of settings controls, such as the resolution, brightness, white balance, and so on. Once you've configured how you want the camera to work, pressing the the camera button captures images in just over a second. The Restore takes perhaps another second to save the image and you're ready to take another picture. Because the Restore doesn't have auto-focus, the picture-taking process is fairly speedy.
Once you've captured an image, you have a short list of options, which include storing it, sharing it, etc. It's not the most robust camera software I've ever seen, but it provides the must-have features for a device such as the Restore.
After a few dozen shots, the camera application crashed and wouldn't work properly again. It couldn't save images and displayed an error message. I tried several different cards, rebooted the phone, and even tried saving images to the phone's memory. No go. I am still waiting to hear back from Samsung about this issue. I am sure it is an isolated problem and nothing you should worry about.
Gallery
The gallery application opens up to show a grid of thumbnails. Sprint has improved the One Click photo gallery a little bit. Before, opening individual images required at least two steps. Now it only takes one. Once you've opened an image, pressing the trackpad left or right will cycle through your images, but it's heinously slow and prone to crashing.
The right soft key offers a wide range of options for moving, editing or uploading the picture. These same options are available with the image open. If you subscribe to a picture sharing service such as Flickr, it is easy to set up the phone to upload pictures there.
The video recorder works exactly as the camera does. Before recording each video, you have to choose if you want to record a 30-second snippet for MMS messages, or a longer video. It warns you that videos larger than 512Kb can't be uploaded from the phone over the air to any Web services. Having to choose which size video every single time gets frustrating quickly.
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