Review: Samsung Moment
Camera
You can launch the camera from the menu system, but it's faster to just press the dedicated button on the side of Moment. If you need to take a picture quickly to capture a golden Moment (pun intended), prepare for disappointment. The Moment (and Android 1.5) has made no strides in launching the camera app quickly. As with other Android hardware, the camera function is just slow, slow, slow to use. This is surprising because the Moment has an 800MHz processor, which beats the pants off of the 528MHz processor in most previous Android handsets.
The Moment is held sideways for picture taking. Press the on-screen shutter button or the dedicated camera key and the Moment will quickly focus (when in good light) and shoot the picture. It takes about 1-ish seconds. If the lighting is poor, it takes a lot longer to focus.
After you take a picture, you get four options: save, set, share, delete. This is pretty much all you get with the camera, and apparently is another feature left unchanged in Android 1.5. The only settings you can change are where the pictures are stored, and whether or not location information is tagged to the photos. That's it. You can't make any adjustments to the camera's resolution, white balance or other settings. This is a major disappointment, especially since the Motorola CLIQ has added features to the camera.
The Moment records video, and the video recorder application is identical to that of the camera.
Gallery
As for the gallery, you can jump there from the camera or the main menu. The gallery view consists of a grid of thumbnails. With a picture highlighted, you can use the menu button to get at a few options, but it's easier to press and hold, which opens up a larger menu for making changes to the picture.
Pictures can be cropped and rotated, but that's about it. No advanced editing functions here. You can easily add pictures to emails, create MMS messages, set images as wallpapers and so on. Again, it stinks that neither Samsung nor Sprint decided to do anything special with the gallery software as Motorola did with the CLIQ.
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Samsung Moment
