The Nokia N93 looks like a wee TV, but don’t be fooled. This video phone has Carl Zeiss optics and takes DVD-quality video and 3.2-megapixel stills. But where’s the digital TV? Streaming video? Subsidized coolness?
Priced at about $600, this is definitely not a mass market phone. The N93 should have a digital television tuner (DVB-H), but that standard is not sufficiently supported on our shores and means that the U.S. continues to lag in the high quality digital-video-over-cellular front, much to my personal dismay. As a result, Nokia has been forced to aim this at folks who want to take home movies with their phones rather the folks who might want to watch the big game on their small screen.
5 comments so far
5:03 PM PT
The current and future Nokia N-Series phones are so awesome but they almost all use the GSM 900, 1800 and 1900 frequencies like the phones in Europe. Cingular uses 850 and 1900 so the coverage would be alright but some places just wouldn’t work very well. Nokia you are breaking my heart.
5:12 PM PT
I’m more interested in the SE p990 approval:
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6:30 PM PT
Elvis, blame Cingular not Nokia. If Cingular were asking for this phone it would support 850 MHz.
11:48 AM PT
Well yeah but I would pay the bucks if there was the option. There are rumors that the N80 is coming to Cingular when their 3g network has wider coverage. I am waiting on that but I am ready to step it up.
5:29 AM PT
i want n93 in india , please tell its releasing date and price