This sounds like a convergence device that might really be useful: Today Motorola and Kodak announced the Motozine ZN5, a cameraphone with a Xenon flash, auto-focus, and built-in image correction. And according to the companies' release, you can be ready to shoot pictures faster than with most other cameraphones: You just slide open the lens cover, and the phone becomes the camera.

The phone also makes sharing easy: Pictures can be uploaded with a click to the Kodak Gallery and to a variety of social networking sites.

The ZN5 made its debut in Beijing today, in conjunction with a photo exhibit called A Day in the Life of the World--all the photos, of course, taken with the ZN5.

Sadly, the phone may never get into our American hands. According to our cell phone analyst, Sascha Segan: "U.S. carriers, who sell the vast majority of phones here, have historically been hostile to high-megapixel camera phones. The ZN5 will only appear as a GSM phone--so Verizon, Alltel, and Sprint won't get a crack at it."

For the rest of Sascha's story, go to PCMag.com.