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Review: Sanyo SCP-2700

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Camera

The 2700 has a 1.3 megapixel camera. No flash, no autofocus. Press the dedicated camera key once to open a short list of camera-related options, or press it twice quickly to open the camera itself. The camera launches quickly (~1 to 2 seconds), and it takes a second or so to shoot and process an image. It's certainly not bad in the speed department.

You can adjust all that you'd expect with a cameraphone, such as brightness, contract, color, and so on. I'd guess most users won't bother with these controls, however. There are some fun frames, some image tools, such as making them black and white or sepia tone, and you can also dial the resolution down if you want to.

The camera software is pretty basic. My major beef with it is that there's just not enough memory. Set to the highest resolution, the 2700 can only store 25 images. That jumps up if you reduce the resolution, but you're losing picture quality if you do that. In addition, since the 2700 doesn't support memory cards of any type, you can't add more storage to the phone. Having to choose between quality versus quantity when the resolution is already lower than many other cameraphones is not a winning combination in my book.

The 2700 cannot record video.

 

Gallery

The gallery app is pretty good. You have the album that's in the phone itself, plus those that you've uploaded to Sprint's online picture storage service. The gallery shows a simple grid of thumbnails. The D-pad lets you add a "check" to whatever image is highlighted. This lets you perform edits and/or other actions en masse if you wish. You have to press the left soft key to expand/open the picture.

The options menu lets you send the pictures via Picture Mail message, upload them, order prints, set as a picture ID or wallpaper and even edit. The editing features include the ability to add text captions, which I think is cool, as as well as add special effects, re-size, crop, or trim the photo. You also have the ability to adjust how the slide show works.

 
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