Verizon Cameraphone Comparison Q4 2009
Test 1a: Pictures taken outside during broad daylight
The phones’ performance, sorted from 1st to 6th place:
1) Motorola DROID: The DROID had the best daytime images, with neutral colors, proper exposure, and good detail.
2) HTC Imagio: The colors produced by the Imagio are a bit over-saturated, but images still look good and are properly exposed.
3) LG enV Touch: Images are sharp and in-focus, but colors are still over-saturated.
4) Samsung Rogue: A few of the outside images were a bit underexposed.
5) HTC DROID ERIS: Images are not as sharp and there is some loss in fine-detail.
6) Samsung Omnia II: Color matching is a problem, as well as images being overexposed and showing purple-fringing.
Test 1b: Videos recorded outside in broad daylight:
Even though recording videos via a cameraphone is more of a novelty than a necessity, we thought it would be interesting to see how the six models would compare, even though we are not including this in our final score. The Motorola DROID produced the best looking video with good colors and smooth playback, as it can record at 720x480 resolution with 25FPS. The Samsung Omnia II also records at 720x480 resolution, but videos aren’t as smooth and colors are “blotchy” looking. The HTC Imagio, LG enV Touch, and Samsung Rogue are all capable of recording at 640x480 resolution, but the enV Touch had the smoothest playback at 25FPS, while the Imagio was a bit choppy at 19FPS, and the Rogue was limited to only 14FPS. Lastly, the HTC DROID ERIS had the worst looking video out of the bunch, as it could only record at 325x288 resolution with 15FPS. Keep these results in mind if you are planning to use the video recording feature.
Test 2: Nighttime pictures taken outside
The phones’ performance, sorted from 1st to 6th place:
1) Motorola DROID: When using the “night portrait” mode, images at night came out the best, with plenty of light, accurate colors, and being in-focus.
2) HTC Imagio: Night images are bight and in-focus, but some have a warm hue.
3) HTC DROID ERIS: Almost the same as the Imagio, but brightly lit areas can be overexposed.
4) LG enV Touch: Night images are darker than we’d like, but are still in-focus.
5) Samsung Rogue: Night images look a bit blurry, but grain isn’t too bad.
6) Samsung Omnia II: Images are blurry and look out of focus and show a lot of grain. The “nigh mode” is unusable.
Test 3a: Pictures taken indoors under a variety of inside lighting conditions, including color charts
The phones’ performance, sorted from 1st to 6th place:
1) Motorola DROID: The DROID produced the most accurate colors and had proper white balance and exposure while used under a variety of artificial indoor lighting.
2) LG enV Touch: Colors weren’t as accurate as with the DROID, but still looked acceptable, and images were in-focus.
3) Samsung Rogue: Images aren’t as sharp as the enV Touch.
4) HTC Imagio: Has issues with the Auto White Balance under artificial light.
5) Samsung Omnia II: Also has issues with color matching and the Auto White Balance.
6) HTC DROID ERIS: Images have the most color matching issues and look lifeless.
Test 3b: Flash images taken indoors
Out of the six phones, the only two that do not include a flash are the HTC DROID ERIS and Imagio. The remaining four phones come equipped with an LED flash, with the Motorola DROID actually containing two LEDs. Flash images taken indoors of the dark kitchen (at 12 feet distance) by the Motorola DROID and Samsung Omnia II are quite good considering the source, though the Omnia II does produce more of a warm hue. The flash image by the Samsung Rouge’s is more blurry, while the flash image produced by the enV Touch is the darkest out of the four.
Test 4: Macro
The phone’s performance, sorted from 1st to 6th place:
1) Motorola DROID: Out of the six phones, the DROID had the best Macro images and with finest detail.
2) HTC Imagio: Almost as good as the DROID, but not as much fine detail.
3) Samsung Rogue: Slightly more in-focus than the remaining phones.
4) HTC DROID ERIS: Just barely beats the Omnia II, but not by much as some Macro images were blurry.
5) Samsung Omnia II: Slightly more blurry and less detail than the DROID ERIS.
6) LG enV Touch: All of the Macro images were the least in-focus out of the six phones.
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