Motorola ZN4 Cell Phone Reviews

Audio quality: Playback of songs and music is decent, though a bit tinny. Additionally, since the speaker is located on the back of the cell phone, you should turn the Krave over to listen to songs. On the plus side, the cell phone sports a 3.5mm headset jack, so you can use your own high-end headphones to listen to music. Songs sounded much better when we listened to them using basic earbud-style phones’.

We particularly like how easy it is to use the phone book, which can store 1,000 contacts, each with five phone numbers, two e-mail addresses, and a picture – sorry, there's no slot for addresses. You won’t find your phone number in the contacts unless you manually enter it as a contact Speaking of the phone book, one feature we could have done without is that you can’t just send a picture unless the contact is already in your phonebook.

Camera/video: The Motorola Krave sports a 2-megapixel camera, and it can record videos. Although the Krave lacks a flash, we doubt that having one would enhance picture quality much. About that: Picture quality is acceptable and the camera has a pretty fast shutter, so you won’t miss many spur of the moment shots. Most images came out in focus, with a decent amount of details. Unfortunately, colors did appear a bit washed out. Video is about the same quality. You can snap pictures by pressing the button located on the side of the cell phone with a camera icon on it. If you touch the screen when in viewfinder mode you can adjust some features, including zoom. The good news is that you can send pictures via Bluetooth on this cell phone.

Music: As noted, listening to songs played through the cell phone’s speaker is acceptable. This cell phone lacks audio-centric controls such as bass and treble; however, it does have other MP3 player features such as shuffle, repeat, and that ability to create playlists on-the-fly. The included music software will also provide suggestions for additional music you might like based on songs you already have stored on the Motorola Krave. We particularly like that if you touch the main VCast logo square in the middle of the screen it will display all the songs on your cell phone so that you can easily change songs on-the-fly. There are plenty of choices if you choose to download music to the Krave directly over-the-air, since this cell phone supports V Cast with Rhapsody.

The Krave will support an optional 8GB MicroSD card – you can store approximately 200 music albums on a card with that much storage capacity – that’s a lot of tunes. If you plan on listening to more than just a few songs, you’ll want to get an external MicroSD card. The Krave will play back Window Media Audio (WMA), Apple’s music file format (AAC), and MP3 files. The easiest way to get your own music onto the cell phone is by synching songs from your computer via an optional USB synching cable. You can also get music onto the cell phone by dragging and dropping songs onto the MicroSD card (as long as you have a MicroSD card adapter that works with your computer) and then slip it into the MicroSD slot located on the spine of the Motorola cell phone. Note: It is likely that you will not be able to listen to songs you purchased online at a music store on this cell phone.

Connectivity/Bluetooth: We were able to pair the Motorola cell phone with a Plantronics Discovery 925 Bluetooth headset and call quality was still quite good.

The display is bright and crisp. It could easily guide you through a dark room in a pinch. Since the screen is protected by a plastic casing, it doesn’t attract as much grease and fingerprints as many cell phones available today. As noted, the cell phone sports a touch screen, which is responsive to the touch of a fingernail. We particularly like that you don’t have to flip open the plastic screen cover to use the cell phone.

Keypad: The touch-sensitive keypad sits on a bright screen with white numbers and letters, so dialing in the dark isn’t an issue. If you want to see the full QWERTY touch-sensitive keypad, you need to use an application where you might need access to it. About that QWERTY keypad, it’s not the easiest to use. This is mostly a result of the plastic cover being open; making it difficult to accurately hit the letter keys on the left side of the display. The good news is that the predictive text software included with the Krave is pretty accurate, so you won’t have to peck out all the letters of a particular message yourself. While we had a much better time tapping out the correct number or text using the numeric keypad, we did have to double check our work quite a bit.