Oct/Nov 2006

Whether it's a good bet for business or not, we felt we couldn't let the occasion pass without marking the launch of Nokia's latest multimedia mobile phone, which arguably pushes the boundaries of the format further than ever before.

Nokia has worked with Adobe and Flickr (a Yahoo! subsidiary providing online photo albums) on the new features of the N93. It is basically a Symbian-based 3G phone, but on top of that you get a 3.2 megapixel digital camera (with Carl Zeiss optics) and a 3x zoom; MPEG-4 "DVD-like" movie capability, with storage of up to 90 minutes on an optional 2GB miniSD card; and storage of up to 1,500 high-quality pictures. Internal memory is 50MB.

The quarter-VGA high-resolution screen swivels out for viewing or taking pictures, and can operate in landscape or portrait mode.

According to research by Canalys, the converged device market reached 53 million units in 2005, and Nokia supplied over half of them. The company says it expects the converged market almost to double this year to 100 million units, and to rise to 250 million by 2008.