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Nokia N93 review | Features

Published on: Friday, January 5th 2007                   Written by: Nic Rossmüller - Photography by: Dennis Hissink

Nokia N93 - Setting Options

The digital camera of the Nokia N93 features multiple settings, like a setting for white balance. The choices are: automatic, sunny, cloudy, Incandescent and Fluorescent. It is also possible to choose from a few pre-programmed scenes and an automated program. Who buys a phone with a camera like this one will not have high demands when it comes to the setting possibilities. When you look at the pictures after taking them you will be reasonably happy with the results the camera of the Nokia N93 offer. The Nokia has a centre-weighted automated lighting and it features a exposure compensation of +/-1EV which can be set in steps of 0.5. The Nokia has a few adjustable color effects. You can take a normal picture, but you can also play with the settings a bit and use, for instance black and white and sepia.

Nokia N93 - Flash

The Nokia N93 has a flash with a reach of about 1.5 meters. When the camera is not active and you press the button to activate flash you can use it as a flash light. There are three settings for flash: on, off and automatic. In certain situations the automatic flash seems to think that the lighting is sufficient, which may be just too little for a well lighted photo. By activating the flash manually it will do more justice to this kind of photos. You will have to think of the reach of the flash. While photographing in a place with more artificial light and where there is more space than flash reach, which is the case most of the times, there will be unwanted discoloring. In these cases, setting the white balance manually will probably offer sufficient solution.

 

miniSD flash card

miniSD flash card

Nokia N93 - Memory

The Nokia N93 has an internal memory of 50MB for messages, ring tones, photos, videos, agenda notes, tasks and applications. This memory can be expanded with a miniSD card with a storage capacity of 2GB maximum. A 128MB miniSD card is provided with the device standard. It's an advantage that the photos taken can be stored on the miniSD flash memory card, this way you can store a large number of recordings and are easily transferred to a computer, by the phone or by an external card reader, like the SanDisk MobileMate reader. The photos which you make with the Nokia N93 can be transferred by Nokia XpressPrint to for instance Photoshop or a compatible printer via the wireless Bluetooth technology.

Two LCD screens

Two LCD screens

Nokia N93 - Monitor

The Nokia N93 has two LCD screens. On the front side of the phone and of course the main screen. The screen of the Nokia is 2.4-inch in size and has a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels. The monitor of the Nokia N93 has wide angle view of 160 degree and shows a resolution of 262.144 colours. Even in direct sunlight the screen can still be worked at a relative ease. The smaller screen on the front of the mobile phone is 1.1-inch in size and has 65,536 colours. On the smaller screen you can see who is calling, who has called, how many calls you missed and furthermore it displays time and date. The main screen of the Nokia N93 can be used in two ways, normally vertical, but you can also flip it to the side and use it as a wider screen. Nice if you want to see the pictures taken.

MP3 player

MP3 player

Nokia N93 - MP3 Player

The Nokia N93 features multiple ringtones: monophone, polyphone, realtone/truetone and MP3. The sound the Nokia N93 produces is simply sublime, it is clear and distinct. Thanks to the volume of the Nokia N93 you do not have to be afraid to miss a call. Combined with the headset the Nokia N93 is a good MP3 player; the headset is a bit big, but of a good quality. If you are at a place that requires silence, a single push on the button on top of the phone selects a silent setting. You will feel the telephone vibrate; the vibrating function.

1100mAh Nokia BP-6M

1100mAh Nokia BP-6M

Nokia N93 - Battery

The Nokia N93 has an 1100mAh Nokia BP-6M battery. This battery ensures hours of calling time, or multiple days in stand-by mode. First I tried the phone for a while and tested and adjusted many settings. In total the Nokia can (easily) be put aside for eight, in good conditions even nine, days without recharging. Calling time will be about five hours. It is nice to have a phone with such a good battery, being able to call for longer periods of time without having to recharge is totally amazing.

 
 
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