The new Nokia N93 is a smartphone, which is specifically designed to fulfill multimedia needs of the users. The handset with exceptional features was introduced in April 2006 and released in July 2006.
N93 , which comes packed with special photographic capabilities, has a twist-and-flip design that can be moved in all four positions: closed when not in use, folded open when talking; a viewing mode and a camera mode.
The phone has a 3.2 Mega Pixel camera; Carl Zeiss optics and 3x optical zoom and can capture 30 frames per second. Some of the fantastic features of N97 are as follows:
1. 3G SmartPhone (Series 60 3rd Edition Symbian OS)
2. Digital stereo microphone
3. Direct TV out connectivity
4. 3.2 Mega Pixel (2048x1536 pixels) camera. Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens, auto-focus, 20x digital zoom and flash
5. 320 x 240 pixels, 262144 colors with 2.4 inch screen
6. DVD-like video capture at 30 FPS in the MPEG-4 format at VGA resolution
7. 50 MB memory, 64MB RAM, up to 2GB mini SD card storage
8. Bluetooth 2.0, Infrared, Wireless LAN (802.11 b/g)
9. Dual ARM 11 332 MHz CPU
10. Adobe Flash Lite 1.1 preinstalled (Supports Flash Lite 2.1 and Flash Lite 3.0 developer editions)
11. Data transfer: EGPRS class B, WCDMA 2100 (384 kbps upload & download)
12. N93 size is 118 x 55 x 28mm and weights just 180gm
13. It has 3.7 hours talk time and has battery standby of 240 hours
The N93 is an amazing device for natural video capturing. It offers uncompromised digital camcorder, telephony and rich Internet communication functions, but the only disadvantage of the handset is that is quite huge in size and battery backup is low. It is quite expensive to be a mainstream handset.
In the Indian electronic market, N93 is available at the price of Rs 32, 00 and it costs USD 720 approx in the international market.
The new Nokia N73 is a superb handset manufactured by Nokia. It is also called a “multimedia computer” with powerful photography features and integrated stereo speakers powered with 3D sound facility.
Nokia N73 comes loaded with software features like two-way video call capability, a 3.2MP camera with Carl Zeiss optics, video galleries, a music player, visual FM Radio, RealPlayer, an IM client, a full browser based on KHTML/WebKit, a WAP browser, a PDF viewer, an Adobe Flash Lite viewer and a number of games.
Nokia N73 was introduced in April, 2006 and was officially released into the market for sale on August 2006. Some of the key features of Nokia N73 are as follows:-
• Powered with 3G and 2G network as UMTS 2100 and GSM 850/ 900/ 1800/ 1900 respectively
• It has GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots),32-48 kbps
• N73 has 2.4” TFT screen and 240x320 pixels
• Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP, Infrared and USB v2.0, pop-port\
• It has internal memory of 42 MB and 64 MB RAM
• 3.2 MP camera with 2048x1536 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, auto focus, LED flash
• It has Symbian Operating System, java, FM radio, games, SMS, MMS, Email and Instant Messaging
• It weights only 116g and has Li Ion battery with stand-by time of 350 hours while talk time of 4 hours
Nokia N73 is available in the market in different colors like Silver and Plum, White and Pink, White and Red, White and Brown, Silver, Blue, White and Sand, Black (Music edition, available later as a standard color) and White (Special Edition)
However, there are few disadvantages of Nokia N73:
• Keys may be too small for larger fingers
• Camera lens cover Creaks
• Absence of Wi-Fi
• Slippery joy-stick
• Internet browser does not support landscape mode
This handset with amazing camera is available in the Indian electronic market at a price of Rs 12,700.