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Audiovox PM8920 camera phone.(first look)(Brief Article)

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Product: Audiovox PM8920 camera phone

Full report: February 2005

This is one of the first 1-megapixel camera phones in the U.S., giving it much higher image resolution than other camera phones we've seen.

The phone, offered by Sprint PCS, sells for $150 with a new two-year service contract. The Sprint PCS Vision service, which allows you to transmit an unlimited number of photos to other Sprint users or store them on a Sprint Web site, is $15 per month on top of calling-plan fees. In our experience, the service is one of the easiest to use.

Picture quality. Our 4x6-inch test prints looked much better than those made with several lower-resolution camera phones we tested last year. But Audiovox prints lacked detail in the highlights. That's a shortcoming you wouldn't see in a ...

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