Review: Sharp FX
Photos
With just 2 megapixels, I wasn't expecting much from the FX and my expectations were met. The FX did a fine job of handling white balance, exposure, and color in most outdoor and well-lit situations. The problem is the sheer amount of grain and noise that's present in the images. There's a lot of it. The FX also loses a lot of the fine details in images.
Indoor shots were even worse. Grain city. Images looked like they'd been sprinkled with sand. Since the FX doesn't have a flash, all you can do is snap away and hope for the best. It's a shame that good pictures are rarer than the bad ones. I imagine teens won't have any problem sending one another picture messages, but I would avoid sharing them via Facebook, Flickr, or anywhere else.
Video
The FX's video talents are reminiscent of those from the first video phones back in the early 2000s. Sure, it captures video, and sometimes you might get lucky and have something usable. But most of the time it's a mess. Grain, odd waviness, lighting inconsistencies and blown-out exposure all over the place.
I'd be surprised if videos taken with the FX even make it to a multimedia message.
3GPP / MPEG-4 format (viewable with QuickTime)
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