Nokia N90 review

N90 Nokia picture This is a big handset, but, unlike other clamshells, it is made up of three (rather than two) sections. Nokia has gone to town to incorporate the high-end Carl Zeiss optics, and while the company has come up with a camera phone that is superior to the competition in terms of image quality, maybe it has actually overdesigned the hardware to accommodate it. It's a pocket-bulging 11.2cm long, nearly 2.5cm wide and weighs enough (175g) that it can double as a weapon if a mugger takes a shine to its retro-modern two-tone styling. Of course, Nokia would have you believe that the N90 is more than just another 2.5G tri-band cameraphone - it's a multimedia powerhouse, capable of recording and editing 2MP images and video clips, and much more besides. Nokia N90 Themes Free Nokia Themes download Nokia N90 Software Free Nokia Software download Nokia N90 Games Free Nokia Games download The N90 has a 2 megapixel camera with autofocus, 20x digital zoom, a flash and a macro mode (for close-ups). It uses Carl Zeiss optics (an impressive name in the photographic world) to deliver photos that are far superior to those found on other camera phones, even those with a 2 megapixel resolution. This is a print quality camera, and for the first time you can reasonably consider a camera phone to be a replacement for a dedicated digital camera, although it clearly can't compete with the more expensive digital cameras with several times more megapixels. The camcorder capability is equally impressive. Finally a word on memory. There is 27MB free internally and if you use this handset as it is meant to be used, you will probably soon fill that. Nokia provides a 64MB RS-MMC card for expansion, though even that may not be enough if you want to carry a lot of multimedia, such as video and tunes. The N90 is, as promised, much more than just a phone. The only worry is that Nokia has squeezed so many functions and so much flexibility into a single handset that it's in danger of being seen as a 'lite' PDA rather than a portable communication device.

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