Computerworld reviews Motorola MotoZine ZN5 and writes "The ZN5 is the first of Motorola’s Zine line of devices designed with today’s social networker in mind. The phone is shaped like a candy bar and weighs 114 grams. It’s 16 millimeters thick at the lens and is 118 mm long by 50.5 mm wide. One of its main features is a 5.0-megapixel camera. The device I received met the China specifications, so it does not have Wi-Fi, as the phone will in most other markets. China Mobile doesn’t like its customers using hot spots to access data or make voice-over-IP calls via Wi-Fi, and therefore authorized local editions of most devices don’t support it.

As a camera, I loved the ZN5. I liked the mechanics of it: sliding down the cover to expose both the lens and built-in flash, watching the camera functions come on while deactivating the phone capabilities (something Motorola likes to call ModeShift Technology). Turning the phone on its side moves the dedicated shutter button into position at the top right. The switch that controls the volume in handset mode can then be used for the digital zoom, which, although it displays with poor resolution in the phone’s window, actually offered excellent results."