Great features .. can be smaller (Nokia N93)

Member Name: trumint

Product:	Nokia N93
Date:	02/06/08 (51 review reads)
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Advantages: 3G compatible, twist and shoot

Disadvantages: Size does matter ;)

I bought this phone for my girlfriend about a year ago, for a detailed specification of the model, please visit:
http://europe.nokia.com/A4325334
I am just going to review on what can be expected of this model.

Nokia N93 most distictive feature is the ability of twisting its screen to imitate a camcoder as well as horizontally similar to a small palmtop. I have always found it to be a bit bulky to carry around, but feature wise you certainly can do a lot with it.

It has a small camera on top of the LCD screen so that you can do 3G calls (video calls) with other users. Ofcourse the other party's phone will have to have 3G capability as well. Having this smaller lense also means you can take a picture of your own by looking at the LCD screen, which is what my girlfriend like to do a lot ;)

The good thing about smartphones such as N93 is the ability for its user to install Symbian based software onto the phone. Thus with a single phone, you can install diffrent, exciting software, just like you personal computer.

Some software I found most useful are time mangement software, screensaver software, and a lot of games (The Settlers and Assasin's Creed!) Yay!

Now that I have covered what you can do, I would now like to share the downside of things. As mentioned by other reviewer, you are basically carrying around a bulky phone which is really a handful. Then there is this camera lense cap, which covers the main camera lense at the side of the phone. Hence everytime when you need to take a picture using the stylish camcoder mode, you need to remove the cap. After which, you most probably won't be replacing it back as you will still be snapping away during your sweet holiday trip. And before you knew it, you have misplaced the cap. At least that is the case with my girlfriend ;)

Other than this two thingy that seemed to annoy me a little, it is overall a very good phone. I have always been using Nokia and I didn't have much problem with them.

I tried not too go into too much technical details here but I would like to mention just a few that matters,

Dimensions

* Volume: 133 cc
* Weight: 180 g
* Length: 118. 2 mm
* Width: 55.5 mm
* Thickness: 28.2 mm

Imaging and Video

* 3.2 megapixel (2048 x 1536 pixels) camera
* Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens
* 3x optical zoom
* MPEG-4 VGA video capture of up to 30 fps
* Sub camera, CIF (352 x 288) sensor
* Video call and video sharing support
* Integrated flash (operating range up to 1.5m)
* Flash modes: on, off, automatic
* Rotating gallery

Summary: Another good quality phone from Nokia

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