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Photos

Pictures taken with the Kin Two's 8-megapixel monster are better than those captured by your average feature phone. In the few shots I managed to squeeze off today, I found the results to be in focus, well balanced, and colorful. As always, outdoor pix turned out better than those taken indoors. You are going to want to use the flash for indoor shots. I am not sure if it qualifies as a flash so much as it does a spotlight. You can illuminate half a night club with the beacon on the Kin. Yeah, it's bright. The pics you capture of your friends on the dance floor won't show off their killer moves so much as it will their squinting eyes. It's possible they'll regain the ability to see by the time the club kicks them out at 3AM.

I'd say users will happily share Kin shots with their kin.

The camera on the Kin One dials down to 5 megapixels. It, too, performs well. It is just as fast as its bigger bother, and I could not detect any differences in image quality when comparing photos side by side.

Note: We were unable to offload full resolution photos from the Kin Two. Sending them via email and/or MMS compressed the images, so these aren't full quality.

Videos

Same for videos. Be careful, though, to set the video camera to the "email" setting if you want to be able to send them anywhere via the wireless networks. If you forget, and record stuff in HD, you'll only be able to transfer it by connecting to a PC. Our device hadn't performed the background sync to Kin Studio yet, so we can't say if it will upload video — HD or otherwise — to Studio.

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