Camera

A 3.0-megapixel camera is always going to take some decent shots and the Rogue's lens is no exception -- its camera takes bright, colorful, detailed photos.

There more camera-focused handsets, such as the Casio Exilim's 5.0-megapixel lens, that will pick up more precise details, but the Rogue's camera does a good job with shadows reflections and color and light contrast. For the best results, users will need a steady hand.

The handset comes with numerous "pre-shot" options include single, multi-shot, panorama, mosaic or frame shooting; flash; brightness adjustment; timer; auto-focus; auto-shot; fine, normal or economy photo quality; white balance; metering and ISO; contrast; saturation; sharpness; normal, black and white, antique, aqua or negative color effects; and several resolution options from 2048 x 1536 px down to 320 x 240 px.

Once a photo is taken, users can add an effect (grayscale, sepia, green, blue, sketch, emboss, soft-glamorous, soft-elegant, soft-charismatic, spring sun, dawn, fright, cinema-normal, cinema-black and white, cinema-old), merge, rotate or flip, resize, adjust for weather or lighting conditions, copy and paste, save or trash the photo, or view it in a slide show.

They can also draw on the photo with a "pen," and select the color, thickness and shape of the item they want to place on the photo.

As a camcorder, consumers can turn the flash on or off for recording, adjust brightness, record in storage or sending size, have a timer, white balance, color effects, adjust quality, and record in 176 x 144 px resolution.

To edit videos, a "Video Wizard" splices and merges files into one video, adjusts volume, edits sound, trims, splits or copies video, inserts text, or adds an effect (black and white, sepia, posterise, solarize, blur, sharpen, noise, emboss).

Videos can be sent, saved, erased, viewed in a slide show or saved as a project.

The Rogue's camera has the advantage of 3.0-megapixel. And while its video quality is mediocre and photo quality is good but not amazing, what really makes it a great device for shooting stills and video is the editing functions -- the ability to adjust, change and create new projects directly on the phone.

Especially impressive are the plethora of options for creating videos with multiple clips and being able to draw on photos.

Basic Features

The Rogue runs on Samsung's TouchWiz user interface for "drag and drop" controls much like what Apple iPhone pioneered.

A unique menu of "widgets" display useful functions such as the clock, radio player, music player, and personal elements including photos and birthday reminders and shortcuts to games, applications and popular social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace Twitter and YouTube -- that users can "drag and drop" onto home screen.

It really shines when it comes to diversions, from a simple roll of the digital dice to some serious video splicing software.

The Rogue can also store up to 1,000 contact names with a photo ID, email, address, work and mobile phone numbers, fax numbers, an IM screen name, and birthday. It can stay on standby for up to 300 hours with its standard battery and last up to 282 minutes without a charge when in use.

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