Nokia N93

The Nokia N93 is a mobile phone from Nokia, part of the multimedia Nseries. It was introduced on 25 April 2006 and released in July 2006. It runs on Symbian OS v9.1 and the S60 3rd Edition interface. It was the most advanced camera phone from Nokia at the time of its release, and was particularly marketed for its swivel design like its predecessor Nokia N90, which mimics the appearance of a conventional camcorder.

The N93 improved upon camera capabilities over the N90. The phone has a 3.2-megapixel camera, Carl Zeiss optics and 3x optical zoom (the first Nokia phone to have it) as well as a 30 fps 640×480 (VGA) MPEG-4 video recording capability.

It was succeeded by the Nokia N93i.

Features

 * DVD-like video capture at 30 fps in the MPEG-4 format at VGA resolution
 * 3.2-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss Vario Tessar optics and flash
 * 320×240 pixels; 262,144 colors 2.4" display
 * 3x optical zoom / 20x digital zoom
 * direct TV out connectivity
 * easy video creation and burning to DVD with Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0
 * digital image stabilization
 * close up mode
 * Visual Radio
 * 50 MB memory, 64 MB RAM, up to 2 GB mini SD card storage (90 minutes of "DVD-like" video)
 * Dual ARM 11 332 MHz CPU
 * Infrared and Bluetooth
 * Wi-Fi (802.11b and g), 3G (WCDMA 2100 MHz), EDGE and GSM (900/1800/1900 MHz) networks
 * Java MIDP 2.0
 * Adobe Flash Lite 1.1 preinstalled (supports Flash Lite 2.1 and Flash Lite 3.0 developer editions)
 * Symbian application support
 * UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) support
 * Comes standard with a full
 * Fully hardware accelerated PowerVR 3D graphics from Imagination Technologies (including OpenGL ES 1.1 and M3G, see JBenchmark )
 * Push to Talk over Cellular (PoC)

Versions
As well as coming in 2 colors, pearl black and silver, there was also a Nokia N93 Golf Edition which had been preloaded with Pro Session Golf software to help improve golf skills. There was also a Mission: Impossible III edition which included a memory card preloaded with the movie and a Mission: Impossible III theme.

N-Gage
Although Nokia planned to release an N-Gage application for N93 (alongside N73 and N93i), it never made it due to memory issues.

In popular culture
The Nokia N93's likeness is used in the video game Tony Hawk's Project 8 as the way for players to view their in-game messages and videos.

Reviews

 * All About Symbian N93 Review (part 1) – Covers multimedia aspects of the phone
 * All About Symbian N93 Review (part 2) – Covers smartphone aspects, and summary
 * All About Symbian N90 vs N93
 * Mobile-review N93 review
 * N93 reviews and specifications round up