Camera

The Ozone's 2.0-megapixel camera places it in the middle of the spectrum for camera phone quality. While it takes colorful photos outdoors -- with decent shadow and contrast -- indoor images are duller and somewhat hazy. But in either environment, the pictures aren't very sharp -- almost as though they're a tad out of focus.

Users can choose from several camera features, such as to set the timer, adjust white balance or brightness, zoom, include a time stamp, turn shutter sound or backlight on or off, shoot in grayscale, sepia, negative or normal mode and choose fine, super fine, normal or basic photo quality.

Resolutions are available in 1600 x 1200 px, 1280 x 960 px, 640 x 480 px and 320 x 240 px.

The Ozone records colorful, vibrant video outdoors on a sunny day, but indoor conditions with less lighting make for jaundice-toned, imprecise clips. A bit of noticeable pixilation is normal on a 2.0-megapixel camcorder, and the Ozone is no exception.

With the volume cranked up, audio comes through well -- but often times it sounds like it's coming through a tube.

The handset uses Windows Media Player to play videos, which is fine in full-screen mode, but one of the annoying things about the player is that it starts in a tiny screen and has to be moved to full-screen. This action often leads to missing the first part of any video. Video can be adjusted for brightness, white balance, backlighting and flicker.

Videos can be shot in sepia, grayscale, negative or natural colors; with shutter sound on or off; with or without audio; on a time limit; captured in H.263, 3GPP2 or MPEG-4; and with a resolution of 352 x 288 px, 320 x 240 px, 176 x 144 px or 128 x 96 px. Zoom is also available.

The Ozone's camera and camcorder works for occasional use, but it doesn't have the quality needed to replace professional devices designed to take and record shots.

Images are often the slightest bit blurry and don't pick up detail very well. It's a shame there are no post-photo or post-video editing tools for the phone. The pre-editing tools, however, are helpful and it's advised users take advantage of them.

Basic Features

The Ozone runs on both CDMA and GSM networks, making it a global device able to connect with most cellular networks worldwide.

It comes bundled with a tasks manager, photo album with slideshow options, calendar, appointments manager, the ability to read numerous documents, download or upload songs and files from a personal computer with ActiveSync, access information from a computer desktop through Remote Desktop and trim MP3 files.

Basics include speed dial, speakerphone, an alarm clock, voice command operation, visual voicemail, a calculator, voice recorder, world clock and tip calculator.

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