New Gadget to play with – Nokia N93
I had an e-mail from someone at WOM World the other day asking me if I’d like to testa Nokia N93 and review it on my websites… Now, I’m no real phone buff and didn’t know what Nokia N93 was but I do like gadgets and if I can get my hands on a top of the range oe free of charge then I’m not going to say no…..
It arrived the next day and I have had a play. As far as mobile phones go, this really is and all singing all dancing affair.. Actually, with its DVD quality camcorder with Carl Zeiss 3x optical zoom lens it is really a super tiny camcorder with the abilities to make phone calls! So, I’ve played with the camcorder and camera facilities and it is really rather good. I haven’t really used it to make phone calls yet, but it does have built in wireless internet connectivity so I’ve used it to browse the web via my wireless network and that works well too. I wouldn’t want to spend too long browsing websites on it as most sites aren’t optimised for display on a small screen, but the browser works and it is possible to view most sites fairly easily with it.
It does of course do so much more, e-mails, bluetooth, works as a PDA and has various built in software apps. I haven’t tried it all out as havent had the time and don’t really have use for such things, but the bits I have used have been easy to use. It didn’t come with a manual in English (at least not that I had the patience to find) so I have worked it all out without a manual which goes to show that it must be easy to use. Of course, using a Mac does mean that I can’t simply hook it up to my computer as I could with a Windows PC, but it save videos and and everything else to a Secure SD card so they are easy to get at. Overall it is an amazing piece of technology and certainly a very capable all in one phone, PDA, mobile internet browser, MP3 player, camera and camcorder…
Would I buy one? No… But then I’m not into mobile phones. My current phone is the cheapest you get, it doesn’t even have a camera as I just want it to make phone calls when I’m away from the house. More sophisticated phones and especially something like the N93 are just too expensive and too fragile for my liking.. I’d have to look after it too much and it would soon get wrecked. That said, I do now tend to carry my equally fragile iPod around with me, so maybe something that does everything in one small packages would be a good thing! If I had one of these Nokia N93’s I’m sure I would take more video clips and use some of its features, but it isn’t something I NEED at the moment.
Overall it is amazing and I’d love one, but I just can’t justify its expense and I would no doubt break it before too long.
