Review: Motorola Devour
Camera
The camera interface on the Motorola Devour is barren and buggy. Though the camera app opened in a hurry whenever I pressed the camera button (even by accident), the camera took too long between shots and often froze at the image preview screen. Sometimes pressing the shutter button would return to the live camera view, sometimes I had to press the back button because the shutter button wouldn't help. Sometimes I even had to quit the app entirely and relaunch the camera to snap another shot.
There are no image settings for the camera, either. You can change the megapixel size of your images, but you can't adjust white balance, focal points or image quality in any way. There are no scene modes, though you can shoot in black and white or sepia, among other simple color filters.
Gallery
As bad as the camera is, the Motorola Devour actually has a good image gallery. Images are presented with a cool, 3D effect and subtle reflections, and its easy to scroll through images and present a slide show with simple flicks and taps. You can even edit images in the gallery, and here's where you'll find tools to tweak white balance, crop and rotate an image, or adjust the hue. There's even an auto fix tool, and it did help somewhat, though not enough to salvage a bad snapshot. You can add frames or caption balloons to your pics, too, and then send them off however you like.
The Devour excels at giving you options to share your pics. You can send images as MMS messages or in an email, and its easy to upload to Google's Picasa site or your own online album of choice. You can also upload pics to Facebook, Twitter or your favorite social network. Motorola even has its own online album service for Motoblur devices, in case you need to sign up for something new.
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Motorola Devour
