Nokia N93i and Vox play nice together

Nokia N93i

(Credit: Nokia)

Nokia N93i with Vox

(Credit: Nokia)

As fellow Webwarer Josh Lowensohn reported a couple of days ago, Nokia and Vox have teamed up to bring mobile blogging to a new level. The N93i comes preloaded with the blogging service, so you can use the phone's 3.2-megapixel camera to capture photos and video and instantly upload them to Vox to share with all your friends and family. It's a wonderful idea, but if you're anything like me, you're not going to bother if the process is too labor intensive or kludgey. Well, good news, folks: Nokia gave me a working demo of the two working together, and it really was a simple thing. The booth attendant shot a lovely video of me putting my hands over my face, saved it to the phone, and within a couple of clicks had the video uploaded via a Wi-Fi connection to a sample blog for all to see (yay!). For someone who doesn't even have the patience to wait for Web pages to load on her cell phone, I was pretty impressed.

Here are some more details about the smart phone (or, excuse me, the multimedia computer, as Nokia calls it) itself. It's largely similar to its predecessor, the N93, but it has a swanky new mirrored face and refined keypad. As mentioned above, it has a 3.2-megapixel camera that can record video at up to 30 frames per second and with DVD-like quality. There's photo-editing software onboard and video-out capabilities so that you can hook it up directly to your TV. The N93i also features the Symbian operating system for your work needs and a built-in music player and streaming media support. As with all the models in the Nokia N series, the catch is that no U.S. carrier has picked up the N93i, which means if you want to snag one of these puppies, you'll have to pony up a hefty $700 or so (ouch) to buy an unlocked version of the phone. The Nokia N93i is scheduled for release by the beginning of 2007.

[X-man germ]

I already own the N93 however?

The upgrade to the N93i from the already fantastic N93 only adds icing to the cake however, it is not enough for me to buy the newer model. I bought the N93 back in August of 2006 and I have not as of yet explored all the functions that the "multimedia computer? has to offer. I really takes time and patient to master it and for that matter I am not surprise that no US cellular carrier has picked it up so far for this is not a regular cell phone. I will even go as far to say that for the average consumer it is beyond their ?computer? literacy level. The N93 and N93I are really revolutionary devices!

[lukascv]

nice but i prefer

but I prefer NOKIA X-Series N73 with skype - Nokia X-Series N73 Free
http://i-skype.blogspot.com/2006/12/free-nokia-x-series-n73-with-skype.html

[mochant]

I have the N93 and just added Vox

I was completely bummed out, having recently acquired the N93, to learn that Vox integration was built in to the N93i. Then I learned that a tiny .cfg file is all that's needed to add the service to my now late-model multimedia computer (connected camera?). It works very well and definitely takes mobile blogging to a new level of easy.

[di1in]

N93i ?hmm!

Problems

There are a lot of problems with the new N93i, mostly coming up due to the new design and form. For instance the mirror screen up front has been designed to facilitate using minor features of the phone without opening it and for seeing incoming call IDs. But when you stand outdoors the visibility of the screen reduces drastically - so much so that you'll have to bring it up to your eyes and twist and turn to get an angle that let's you see the screen. Problems with the form factor also arise such as a misalignment of the front face of the phone as well as some play..mostly towards the left. But on the looks front it really does looks good..!


Improvements

The new improvements include a joystick for side control when using the camera, buttons on the screen for added user friendliness, good Zeiss lens cover, stylish sim access and a battery similar to the n95 - but which lasts noticeably longer.


The Metal keyboard scores way high on looks and durability but is in the pits for usability..a real pain for my poor lil' fingers they've been. There isn't much of a divide between the buttons except a flimsy rubbery thing and the delete button is microscopic, you'll have lots of trouble with that little thing!!

Camera
Easy to use, with design elements of a handy cam, the N93i's Imaging Capabilities are similar to that of the the N93. Noise reduction is the same though the stereo effect has been found to be comparatively lower. Another bug that i found was that the brightness decreases upon zooming using the optical zoom. This is a real bad situation, because there isn't much use with a Optical Zoom camera if you can't get more detail into it!

Another thing i took note of was that the subject can see himself on the front screen and get an idea of what he looks like when the picture is taken. And girls could use it for putting on make-up and applying lipstick..creative of me isn't it?...

Speakers

The speakers are garbage compared to that of most other recent releases from Nokia.. it doesn't even come half way near to what the speakers of the Nokia 5700 can do! What good is a N-series multimedia phone if you can't even use it for hearing music?? Nokia seems to be losing it's touch here...



And so in the end the N93i is yet another expensive phone in the market today, and will be so until the next Nokia N-Series handset comes along.
read all dis wid a bit more spice here:http://s603rd.blogspot.com/2007/09/n93i-rest-of-story.html

regards,
diLin Anand