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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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"My god...$900"
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Yeah, but can it make phone calls?
Not sure why this was posted to slashdot... it's just another phone.
The one you want is the N91, which has 802.11g wi-fi.
I will absolutely not buy this so-called "phone." For $900 I can get:
As is common in these discussions, I believe I speak for everyone in this forum when I state that because I do not want this product, none of you should ever even consider purchasing it.
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As usual, there will be a lot of posts about "I just want the damn thing to be able to do calls, nothing more". Aside from killing the market (if every vendor had done so), I just think you haven't really considered the possibilities. I travel one hour per day, and since my SE K750i is so powerful, I watch re-encoded episodes of American Dad and Family Guy to kill some time. The quality is acceptable. I basically see the phone as a cool gadget to kill some time while travelling or attending a very boring class.
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For one, compromising ergonomics for everyone for features that only a subset of owners might use isn't a good idea.
And another, a phone that costs as much as a mid-range laptop (laptops start at $500 now) but smaller and easier to steal or lose doesn't seem to be a good idea. Even with a hefty service plan subsidy, it's not going to be as cheap as a low end laptop.
Which isn't to say there isn't a market for these but a $900 phone looks like a niche item to me.
I certainly won't be buying this, I thought the RAZR was too expensive.
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.
...who is disappointed that the screen doesn't flip all the way around so that the phone could close with the main display exposed? it could have been a cool little phone/PDA convertible. ...alas...
1 x Nikon D70s - Ths award winning machine does nothing other than take photographs very well. Dispite not having the highest megapixel count, this SLR comes with great optics and a sensor that delivers vivid colour and gret low-light sensitivity.
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1 x Nokia Series-6 phone; This award winning range of Symbian phones comes with SDKs in Python, Java and C++; Possibly the most extendable range of phones ever built. You can still buy phones without cameras in them, but snap them up while you get a chance.
Result: A smaller, more OSS friendly phone, A bigger but much better camera... one that's likely to teach you a few things about photography.
However, at $900, the weight issue can be easily compensated by the lightness you now feel in your wallet.
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With the lens it comes with, your pictures are still probably going to look like crap, no matter how many pixels you use. A better lens however would make the phone bulkier and more expensive....Camera phones are great for those "slice of life" moments(example, here in Germany I saw a grifter with a live alpaca, but alas I had no camera to share the moment with everyone!) when you don't have a camera, but even then, do you really need 2 megapixels? Esp. for something you are probably just going to throw up on the web...
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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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Talking on a phone is dangerous while driving, so Nokia decided to drop that feature...
Oh well, what the hell...