Camera

The enV2's 2.0-megapixel camera takes pictures in four resolutions: 1600 x 1200 px (default), 1280 x 960 px, 640 x 480 px and 320 x 240 px.

Users also have their choice of a 10x Zoom, Brightness Levels, White Balance (Auto, Sunny, Cloudy, Fluorescent and Glow), Night Mode, Self-Timer (3, 5 or 10 seconds), Color Effects (Black and White, Negative, Aqua and Sepia), Shutter Sounds (Default Ring, Cheese, and Ready 123) and a Self-Portrait Mode. Then access the "My Pictures" folder to Zoom, Crop and Rotate pictures using the phone's easy-to-use image editor. For photo printing, the enV2 is Bluetooth enabled for transferring images directly to a compatible printer.

Utilizing a nearly the same set of image capture and edit options, the enV2's camcorder can record up to 30 seconds of video for sending and up to one hour of video for saving onto the phone. Videos can be shot in either 320 x 240 px or 176 x 144 px resolutions and can be saved in WMV, MP4, 3GP or 3G2 formats. Videos under 5MB can also be set as a wallpaper.

The enV2 doesn't have a flash, but in the right conditions (and a little knowledge of the Brightness and White Balance controls) image quality on the enV2 is actually better than most camera phones.

Basic Features

The enV2 comes with the basic set of phone features - speakerphone, multimedia messaging (MMS), voice commands, alarm clock, world clock, stopwatch, notepad, calculator, tip calculator, calendar - plus some extras like an icon glossary and keypad security code options.

Specialized call features include Answer Options (Flip Open, Any Key, Auto with Handsfree), End Call Options (Flip Close, End Key Only) and Auto Call Retry that can be set to redial every 10 seconds, 30 seconds or 60 seconds. The phone also utilizes TTY mode for the hearing or verbally impaired.

Its 950 mAh Li-Polymer battery is rated up to 320 minutes (5 hours and 20 minutes) of talk time and 520 hours (21 days and 16 hours) of standby time.

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