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The Nokia N90, $900 Camera Phone Reviewed
Lord_of_Tech writes "CoolTechZone.com has reviewed Nokia's N90 cell phones that comes with 2 megapixel camera and a host of other features, and it costs a solid $900 per unit. "The minute you set your eyes on the N90, the first thing that springs to your mind is 'it looks a lot slimmer in photos...' but as you take it out of the packaging, you realize the heaviness of it. To be very clear at the outset though, this is not Nokia's attempt to produce as sleek a phone as the Motorola Razr. What it is designed to be is a feature packed phone that doesn't mind compromising on the ergonomics to pack in every last bit of functionality you could ever want on a camera phone."
One small , perhaps insignificant problem with the review.
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It goes in-depth with all the features of the phone rather well, it does however miss one thing.
How good is it as an actual phone?
What does it sound like when making a call?
Is the antenna any use?
How is the microphone?
This is something rather important to me when buying a phone.. being that it is the primary purpose of the thing.
Good review of all the features though, I won't touch this phone with a barge-pole if the review is correct (and the price tag so inordinate ).
PS: I took the liberty of coral caching the site , it was taking a while to load pages when I was reading the review http://www.cooltechzone.com.nyud.net:8090/index.p
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The "West" is so far behind in mobile phone technology. For only $200, I can get this phone in Japan:v 903t/index.html
http://www.vodafone.jp/english/products/model_3G/
It's completely bilingual (although I don't think it has predictive text in English mode), has a 2 MB camera, global roaming (and global GPS navigation (although only five or six countries are available at the moment)), can take video calls, communicate via Bluetooth or IR, read QR codes (very convenient in Japan). The Nokia N90 can't even vibrate when it's in silent mode. WTF? That's pretty much par for the course over here. And the Nokia is $700 more? If you can switch this phone to work on a Verizon account back home, it's almost worthwhile to buy a ticket to Japan, buy the phone and then fly back.
Even the free phones you get with a new account over here have AT LEAST a 1 MB camera. Some have 2. Some of the newer Sharp phones even have built-in optical zoom.
Vodafone is generally looked down upon by the Japanese people. NTT Docomo probably have even better phones available.
http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?boxe
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In Japan, they use different technology solutions, not more advanced technology in mobile phones.
The situation in Japan differs much from situation in other parts of the world, namely population density in Japan is much higher and there aren't many areas in Japan where there isn't high population density. What this means is that you have to build your whole mobile phone network differently, you have to have lot's of base station and they have to operate in much smaller area, thus leading to lower power usage in both base stations and in mobile phones. Because power requirements are lower, Japanese mobile phones have been a lot smaller for decades. They don't have any magical technology that the rest of the world hasn't, they just a different situation with different needs.
It should also be noted that the markets have proved that Japanese don't have more advanced technology, if they would have, they would have stormed the markets allready.
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