Review: Nokia 7705 Twist
Camera
The Twist has a 3 megapixel camera with flash, autofocus and a dedicated camera launch key on the keyboard. Unfortunately, the Twist has to be open to launch the camera. The camera software is exactly the same as on previous generations of Verizon camera phones.
The camera launches quickly enough, and actually shoots pictures pretty fast. Focusing takes about a second, and then the picture is captured and processed immediately. This nice speed means you have a better chance at catching the image you want.
The typical options to adjust resolution, timer, flash, brightness, effects, capture mode, sounds and so on are all present and easily accessed from the menu. The Twist's camera will not zoom when set to the highest resolution, but can if you dial it back to 2 megapixels or lower.
Gallery
The gallery application is unchanged from other phones that use the Verizon UI. It can be opened by jumping through the menu system or by hitting the camera button and then using the left soft key to load the gallery. The latter of these two options is much faster. The gallery is locked to a three-column view, and lets you see six different pictures at a time. When viewing the gallery, hitting the right soft key brings up the expected set of options for moving, renaming and otherwise interacting with your pictures.
Opening up each picture is as simple as hitting the center of the d-pad. Once open, the right soft key opens an editor tool and lets you do all sorts of things with the pictures, such as cropping, zooming, adding frames and so on. Unfortunately, the Twist automatically downgrades any edited images to a lower resolution. It does, however, keep the original intact.
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