Camera
The 2.0 Megapixel camera on the K750i is the best camera I've ever used on a phone, and one of the best available today. Head to head shootouts with
Nokia's N90 set featuring its 2MP Carl Zeiss optics regularly give the K750i a slight edge in picture quality, and after a few snaps it was clear to me why. Taken in good lighting conditions, highest-quality photos from this handset are sharp, detailed, and color accurate. The 4.0x digital zoom works quite well given the limitations of digital zoom (no optical zoom is available), and a plethora of options including white balance adjustment, self-timer, auto focus and macro mode, night mode and picture quality settings are accessible with a few flicks of the joystick.
Bear in mind that this is a mobile phone and not a dedicated digital camera, so serious shutterbugs won't find the K750i a true replacement for their Canons and Leicas. Particularly in low light, the phone's pictures suffer from graininess and color degradation - the integrated photo light helps some with this, but it's not really a true flash and only goes so far. I, however, have never carried a digital camera around with me and only started snapping pictures regularly when I got my first decent cell phone cam (a VGA-quality Motorola V551). As such, I'm pretty floored by the pictures that the 750 takes. Transferred to a computer via USB or Bluetooth and viewed on a monitor at full 2MP resolution (1,632 x1,224 pixels), pictures taken with this device say "camera" and not "cell phone."
A video mode is also available. Videos are saved in the 3GP format, and while digital zoom and multiple shooting modes are similar in function to the still camera, video quality is jittery and blocky - not at all on par with the stellar performance of the camera. Basic photo and video applications are included, and they're fun to fiddle with if not all that useful.
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