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Eldar Murtazin (eldar@mobile-review.com)
Published — 19 June 2005

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Nokia N90

The model is similar to the Nokia 6260 with a rotational upper part, which is necessary in the camera working mode. A curious thing is the camera module is set out of the main part and is aldo rotational. This is one of the first product to have high resolution screen, glass optics by Carl Zeiss. The company positions the model as a fashion device, the leader in photography line. The only minus of this very functional phone is its big dimensions.

Class: smartphone, 3G, fashion
Position in the line: above Nokia N70
Rivals: no in this form-factor
Start price will form about 750 USD
Description based on oficial information

General features
- Announced in April 2005, on the market since July 2005, official announcement on the 27 April 2005
- eGSM 900/1800/1900, WCDMA 2100
- Battery 760 mAh Li-Ion (BL-5B)
- Battery life:
- Full recharging takes about 2 hours
- Colour high-contrast graphical display, up to 262K (TFT), has the resolution of 352x416 pixels, 2.1"
- External screen - 65K, TFT, 128x128 pixels
- 5D navi button
- Run by Symbian OS version 8.1a (interface Platform 60 ver 2.6)
- 2-MP camera (CMOS), supported resolutions 1600x1200, 1024x768, 640x480 pixels, integrated flash effective for a distance of 1.5 meter, anti-red eyes effect, scene setting, select light conditions, x20 digital zoom
- Autofocus, macromode
- Carl Zeiss glass optics
- Recording video with sound and resolutions of 352x288, 176x144, 128x96 pixels
- Weight: 173 gramms
- Dimensions: 112 x 51 x 24 mm

Memory
- 31 MB of memory are dynamically shared among the phone book, calendar, messages, images and applications
- RS-ММС expansion slot (64 MB card in a standard kit), hot card change
- A possibility to assign a photo to a number in the phone book
- Keeping Name and Surname (two lines), Company name, Position, Phone number, Mobile number, Fax and e-mail address - totally 8 fields for a name. A possibility to add unlimited number of fields yourself.
- Unlimited number of callers' groups, one name may be assigned to several groups at the same time
- SIM-card entries are stored separately, impossible to view them together with phone memory
- Call lists are unlimited in the number of entries, besides the date and call duration call type is specified. A possibility to set a storage period for entries (a month by default)

Call management, ringing tones
- Vibracall not presented
- Polyphonic call, True Tones,supported formats AAC, eAAC+, MP3, RealAudio, WAV
- 64-tones call, mp3, AAC, WAV, NB-AMR, WB-AMR
- Voide dialing independent from the pronounciation, no need in making preliminary bookmarks
- Speakerphone
- Call duration is shown during the call
- Musical composer, a possibility to assign melodies to names in thes phone book

SMS
- Predictive text input Т9
- Templates (10 preset, change them or add your own)
- Sending and receiving graphical messages
- Concatenated messages (up to 459 characters)

Connectivity
- WAP 2.0
- Bluetooth v.1.2
- HSCSD
- GPRS class 10
- EGPRS (Class B, Multislot class 10)
- E-mail protocols: SMTP, POP3, IMAP4 - attachments
- MMS
- Synchronization with PC via Bluetooth or a cable
- SyncML
- SMIL
- USB 2.0 via Pop-Port
- PoC or PTT
- Instant Messaging
- VideoCall

Organizer and extras
- User's profiles (5), temporary profile
- Time, date
- Calculator, currency converter
- Stopwatch (up to 20 intermediate results), countdown timer
- Organizer supports different types of events (improved in comparison with other models)
- To-do list
- Dictaphone
- Frontal VGA-camera
- 3GPP Video Streaming
- RealOne Player: RealMedia and 3GPP-compatible files reproduction
- Photoalbum - improved Gallery
- Viewer - allows viewing MS Word, MS PowerPoint files on the phone
- MP3 player
- MIDP JavaTM (2.0), 3D API (JSR-184)
- Loading Java applications
- Games