Review: T-Mobile G2
Camera
The camera app on the T-Mobile G2 is a huge disappointment. It lacks the great features you'll find on just about every other touchscreen smartphone on the market. There is no touch focus; you can aim for the center, that's about it. There's also no macro control, so you can't get too close for a shot. There are no scene modes to help pick the right setting for the situation, and no special shooting modes, like a panorama stitching mode. The camera does offer some exposure controls, including white balance settings, but these did not help produce much better images.
The camera could also be a bit sluggish to respond, which is odd, because every other feature on this phone seems to spring to life at the slightest inclination. But when you press the camera button, expect to wait 3-4 seconds before the app is active. Then, the camera could take another three seconds to focus your shot. That's a long time from seeing something worth shooting to taking the picture. In between shots there was very little delay, no more than a second to jump back into the action.
Image Gallery
The Gallery app on the T-Mobile G2 is the stock, 3-D gallery for Android 2.2, or Froyo, phones. It looks cool, and the small piles of photos on screen move and change perspective slightly as you rotate the phone. Tap a pile with two fingers and then spread your fingers apart and the pictures fly past from beginning to end, offering a quick preview of each batch.
There are plenty of ways to send your pictures along from the Gallery, but very few editing options. You can upload or send your images any number of ways, to almost any service you can imagine. You can send files over Bluetooth or scan images using the Google Goggles image search. If you'd like more options than Picasa and Photobucket for uploading, there are plenty of apps available from the app market to add capabilities to the Gallery. That is one of the best features of Android, that it's so extensible, so new apps can add new capabilities to other features on the phone.
For editing, you can crop or rotate pics, and that's about it. This isn't a real concern, though, as their are many photo editing tools available from the App Market. Adobe offers a free Photoshop.com app that provides myriad photo editing tools, for instance.
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