Camera

The Snap comes with a built-in 2.0-megapixel camera. It takes dark, yellowish pixilated photos. Users have plenty of options to improve the image though, such as brightness controls, color features -- like grayscale, sepia and photo negative -- white balance and flicker adjustment.

There are even options for time stamping the picture, turning backlight on and off, adjusting how long the image stays on the screen after a picture is taken, adjusting the shutter sound, where the photo should be stored or putting on a self-timer.

Resolution options include 1600 x 1200 px, 1280 x 960 px, 640 x 480 px and 320 x 240 px, and image quality can be basic, normal, fine or super fine.

Once the photo is taken, users can send, delete or put the photo into an album. Editing options include crop, rotate, zoom, and auto correct.

The camcorder has good audio and decent picture quality, but the image is blurry. All of the choices for the camera are available for the camcorder as well -- color effects, white balance, time stamp, flicker adjustment, brightness, shutter sound options, review and backlight.

Resolution options include 320 x 240 px, 176 x 144 px, 128 x 96 px and a CIF 352 x 288 px options.

Videos are captured in either MPEG-4, 3GPP2 and H.263 formats. Users can record with or without audio, and recording can be limited to 30 seconds, 60 seconds, three minutes or no limit. There are no editing options for videos.

The Snap's camera takes disappointing photos that need all the multiple editing options available on the phone to make them look marginally better. The camcorder offers only slightly better results. All in all, the Snap's camera is not an incentive to pick the phone. But it will do for the occasional picture or video.

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