Verizon Cameraphone Comparison Q2 2007

Test 3: Pictures taken under variety of inside lighting conditions

We compared the cameraphones indoors, in various artificial lighting conditions, which show how they how their automatic White Balance performs. When it gets darker, more noise appears and the detail disappears, which is another problem for those cameras.

The Maxx stays in 1st place for picture taking inside, thanks to the Auto White Balance being able to differentiate between different types of lights (fluorescent, incandescent, halogen), the Auto Focus keeps the images sharp, and the overall good color saturation. The enV is a close 2nd, only because Auto Focus would have occasional difficulty. The VX8700 beats out the A990 as 3rd place. This is because the A990 has trouble with the Auto White Balance when used inside, which caused some images to have an orange tint to them.

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1) Maxx: The Auto White Balance works well with many different types of lighting.
2) enV: The Auto Focus on the enV has trouble depending on the type of lighting.
3) VX8700: The Auto White Balance works well, but images still have “fuzziness”.
4) A990: The A990 has issues with different types of inside lighting causing image colors to not be accurate.