The Nokia N93 is a mobile phone from Nokia, part of the multimedia-focused Nseries lineup. Released in 2006, it was the most advanced camera phone from Nokia at the time of its release, as well as being the first Nokia phone with an optical zoom.
N93 was particularly marketed for its swivel design like its predecessor Nokia N90, which mimics the appearance of a camcorder. The N93 improved upon camera capabilities over the N90. The phone has a 3.2-megapixel camera with 3x optical zoom, Zeiss optics and 30 fps 640×480 (VGA) MP4 video recording capability. It was succeeded by the Nokia N93i.
Features The Nokia N93 supports 3G (WCDMA 2100 MHz), EDGE and GSM (900/1800/1900 MHz) networks. It also has Push to Talk over Cellular (PoC), Wi-Fi (802.11b and g),Nokia N93 Data Sheet an infrared port (for IrDA) and Bluetooth.
The Nokia N93's 3.2-megapixel camera has Carl Zeiss Vario Tessar optics and flash, 3x optical zoom / 20x digital zoom, digital image stabilization, close up mode, and DVD-like video capture at 30 fps in the MPEG-4 format at VGA resolution. It was also advertised for "easy" video creation and burning to DVD with Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0.
Other than the camera, Nokia N93 has a 320×240 pixels; 262,144 colors 2.4" display and direct TV out connectivity. It has a Dual ARM 11 332 MHz CPU, 50 MB memory, 64 MB RAM, and up to 2 GB mini SD card storage (90 minutes of "DVD-like" video). Fully hardware accelerated PowerVR 3D graphics from Imagination Technologies (including OpenGL ES 1.1 and M3G, according to JBenchmark) is included. However despite Nokia having planned to support N-Gage 2.0 for N93 (alongside N73 and N93i), it never made it due to memory issues. Other features are a web browser,Web browser Adobe Flash Lite 1.1 preinstalled (supports Flash Lite 2.1 and Flash Lite 3.0 developer editions), Visual Radio, UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) support, Symbian application support, Java MIDP 2.0.
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.
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.
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External links
Online copy of the N93 Manual (PDF) Nokia Nseries Social Media – N93 resource More on the graphics technology inside the N 93 and N95 N93 technical specifications N93 general information