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Monday October 19, 2009
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 Reader Joseph P. asks: I read both of your reviews of the Samsung Rogue and the LG enV Touch. Which camcorder has better video quality? Which phone by Verizon would you say has the best video quality for recording?
Hi Joseph,
Both the Samsung Rogue and the LG enV Touch recorded video at 640-by-480 resolution and performed well in testing. So did the HTC Imagio, although that's a smartphone and requires a different Verizon plan.
It would be tough to split the difference in quality between all three. The LG and HTC Imagio were slightly sharper and more colorful than the Rogue, though the Imagio blew one test by being out of focus the entire time for reasons unknown.
(More after the jump.)
That said, all three have tiny camera phone lenses, so none of them
will approach a true camcorder regardless of resolution. All three were
poor without sufficient indoor light. But all three shot perfectly
acceptable recordings, and are probably state of the art for cell phone
video. (The Samsung Instinct HD over on Sprint is even better; it's the
only phone I've tested so far to record 720p video.)
In short, we're talking about very fine differences between them. Something like
the weather, or time of day, of the test would affect the lighting
enough to overwhelm the minute differences in recording quality. Hope this helps!
Best,
Jamie
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