Nokia - N90 Review Part 2

N90

17th April 2005

As with a lot of recent high-end Nokias, this is a Symbian Series 60 smartphone, although we suspect that most users will be primarily interested in digital photography rather than loading on new software. There's an embedded XHTML web browser and an email client, and the N90 can view a variety of attachment types including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat documents. The operating system The large screen will help a lot with web browsing and working with documents. As with all Nokias handsets, you can synchronise this with a PC either via a USB cable or Bluetooth. There's a variety of multimedia software and other applications preloaded, and the N90 also supports Java so there should be a variety of games and other applications available for it.

At the moment, the Sharp 902 is our benchmark for this class of phone, and the Nokia N90 pretty much directly competes against it. On the plus side, the N90 has better software and the Carl Zeiss lens, on the other hand the Sharp 902 is lighter and has a 2X optical zoom. The Toshiba TS 921 is a very similar handset too. The big advantage that Nokia have is that the Sharp and Toshiba models are exclusive to Vodafone and the Nokia should be more freely available.

This is a good handset, and it's refreshing to see Nokia at the head of the pack in technical terms. Too many times before we've had to say that a handset is good *considering* that it's a Nokia.. in this case we're pleased to say that this is a good handset full stop.

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