Verizon Cameraphone Comparison Q4 2007

Test 3: Pictures taken under variety of inside lighting conditions

We compared the cameraphones indoors under a wide variety of artificial lighting conditions, which reveals how their Automatic White Balance performs. Also, in darker images, more noise appears and the detail disappears, which is another problem for most cameraphones.

The V9m comes back to 1st place, since images have excellent color representation and overall good detail. Also, the Auto White Balance on the V9m worked the best out of any phone, and can easily adjust to a variety of lighting conditions (fluorescent, incandescent, and halogen). The Maxx Ve is a close 2nd, with the only noticeable difference being that images don’t have as much color saturation, but the Auto White Balance still works well with various types of light. Coming in 3rd is the Voyager, due to images being slightly darker and underexposed than they should be. In 4th place in the FlipShot, which still suffers from the same Auto White Balance and Autofocus problems that plagued the A990. Even when manually changing the white balance to Tungsten or Fluorescent, we could not achieve a “natural/neutral” color to the image.

Cameraphone comparison samples. Scroll below for our category rating.



The phone’s performance, sorted from 1st to 4th place:

1) V9m: Colors are the most saturated and the Auto White Balance works well with different types of lighting.
2) Maxx Ve: Not as much color saturation, but images still look good and no problems with the Auto White Balance.
3) Voyager: Images are a little darker than they should be.
4) FlipShot: The only phone that suffers from Auto White Balance problems. This was an issue with the A990 and has not been fixed on the FlipShot.

We would also like to add that the only phones with a built-in Flash are the FlipShot and Maxx Ve. Our tests show that the flash on the Maxx Ve is more powerful and produces better looking images than FlipShot. If you require a good flash on your cameraphone, then we would recommend the Maxx Ve over the FlipShot.