14 DAY TRIAL // Motorola ZN5 is finally unveiled in official images, after several leaked and not quite clear pictures with it have been let loose on the Web, showing what seemed to be a really nice phone. Well, Moto ZN5 is indeed nice, as its official, high-resolution and watermark-free pictures clearly show it.
As rumored, Motorola ZN5 is the long-awaited handset made in collaboration with Kodak, the US-based famous producer of photographic and optical materials/equipment. The fruit of this collaboration is the 11.8 millimeter thin ZN5 that packs a 5 Megapixel camera with auto focus, xenon and LED flash (hence there are two of them), video recording and, of course, Kodak lens. This camera should offer high-quality photos, comparable with the ones that handsets like Nokia N95 / N82 or Sony Ericsson K850 can provide.
Aside from the high-end camera, the new ZN5 also features a 500 MHz processor, TV-out, Music and Video players, morphing keypad, Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR, 3.5mm audio jack, a 2.4 inch display with 240 x 320 pixels and Montavista Linux 2.6.1 operating system. The handset apparently comes only with GSM connectivity (900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz), plus GPRS and EDGE, hence it won't be able to offer 3G browsing / data transfer speeds. Anyway, Motorola plans to launch the ZN5 only in Asia, where markets like China and India (the largest in the world, in terms of mobile users) don't have 3G networks yet, so the lack of this capability in the phone won't be seen as a drawback.
Sure, the above mentioned markets mainly need entry-level handsets, but there's always room for advanced ones, and the ZN5 is both advanced and good-looking - a combination that can make lots of mobile users pay more than they would normally pay for a phone.
It would be better, of course, if the ZN5 will be released in Europe and the Americas too. Maybe a 3G version will be rolled-out soon, especially created for the markets where 2G is, slowly but surely, becoming an "old" technology. If so, then the ZN5 could be a real hit, and not just in Asia.
Besides the official images with Moto ZN5, there's nothing else official about the phone, not even its name (the MotoKodak naming from the article's title is my invention). However, the ZN5 should become available pretty soon, so let's wait and see how much it will cost and how exactly it can answer the needs of mobile users.
