Review: Pantech Matrix Pro
Camera
The camera application doesn't give us all that much to complain about. Press and hold the camera button on the side of the phone to launch it. It takes about 3 seconds to fully open. From there, pressing down the camera key firmly will take the picture. There is no auto-focus, but the camera still takes about 2 or 3 seconds to actually shoot a picture. Saving it takes even longer.
The camera has a basic set of indicators to let you know how many pictures you can store, and what some of your other settings are. Pressing the D-pad up or down will zoom the camera in and out, pressing the D-pad left or right will adjust the brightness up and down. If you want to adjust more than that, you have to dig down into the menu settings, which let you adjust a host of other features via a tabbed menu in the viewfinder.
The camcorder works in exactly the same way.
Gallery
The gallery is a pretty simple affair. Pictures are arranged in a basic grid. You can move through them using the D-pad. While in the main gallery, the right soft key opens up a long list of options for interacting with the pictures, including the ability to create and edit new folders.
You get pretty much the same set of options when you press the right soft key with a picture opened on the screen, though it includes a few different selections for editing the image.
Any picture can be uploaded from the gallery to Snapfish or included in an MMS message.
What gets me is that there are two separate galleries. One for the phone's on-board memory, and another for the microSD card you insert. I could not figure out how to blend or merge the two separate galleries. This was a bit frustrating.
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