Real cameras have come to mobile super smartphones

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Monday, 16 October 2006 20:00

Your IT - Entertainment

Nokia’s N73 and N93 also offer excellent 3.2 megapixel imaging, with the N93 also able to record video at 640x480.

Nokia’s N95 will be Nokia’s most advanced camera smartphone to date. Brimming with features including a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and autofocus lens, voice and videophone capability, turn-by-turn GPS capabilties, Bluetooth and stereo Bluetooth audio streaming, a USB port, 3.5G HSDPA compatibility (for 2100Mhz networks only at this stage, not Telstra’s 800Mhz 3.5G HSDPA network), a 3.5mm headphone socket, two-way sliding action revealing a numeric keypad or mp3 player controls, a 16m colour LCD screen at 2.6-inches, a memory card socket, excellent browser and email capabilities and much more, this phone will launch worldwide early next year.

The 5 megapixel camera can also record video at 640x480, like the Nokia N93, making those video clips you capture on your phone that much nicer looking than before. The next step here has to be 1024x768 video recording, as is now possible with the Canon IXUS 850IS digital camera, one of the nicest and newest real digital cameas out there. And despite the advances in camera phones, real digital cameras will still be with us for some time yet.

We had the chance to play with this phone at a preview last week and while it was a prototype, it was the best Nokia phone we’ve seen yet, and it only made us wonder what ultraportable communications marvels we’ll be seeing this time next year!

Until then, the quest for the perfect combination of phone, video phone, camera, digital camera, web browser, email device, voice recorder, radio, portable TV and mini computer that does it all wirelessly at superfast broadband speeds... continues!