Local Dustributors: Nokia (M) Sdn Bhd / Zitron Contact: 1-300-88-1600 Build Quality: 9/10 Applications: 8/10 Interface: 8/10 Value For Money: 8/10 Overall Rating: 8/10
+Phone Look Much Better +Featured-Filled Phone -Not Much of an upgrade from N93 -Not worth if you have N93
Reference price: MYR 2630-2710 MYR 2155-2235 (AP )
After N93's debut, N93i makes it own introduction with several pinch and jog to the original.
What is in the box: # Nokia N93i Telephone # Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 PC Software # Nokia Battery # Nokia Travel Charger # Nokia Wired Headset # Nokia connectivity Cable # Nokia Video-out connectivity Cable # Nokia miniSD Card 1GB # Nokia Soft Pouch # Nokia Wrist Strap
The Phone: Take one glance at N93i, and a will notice phone design has been upgraded. See slim phone and denser. In fact, difference was heavy N93i- it is 17 lighter gram from his predecessor. N93i had been draining also several lb from their camera and reduced several huge elements which has been from N93. Although N93i is pretty slim and lighter from his predecessor, it is still heavy enough to make sure that it will weigh fell you hole.
For exterior, face rising casing is mirror a plate and it is enough reflective to see you person instead of using Zeiss's camera for own portraits. In plate mirror, there external one exhibition 65K, give an indication consumer signal strength and battery life in curved format. Aside than this, outside plate also gave design lag call signs also.
That one on to Nokia in the fashion department . N93i see many more aesthetically pleasing, by favor uniform design design feature dignity form for plate mirror. However, phone reflect plate will get dirty easily, so be careful with it.
In bone right back is camera keys?conclusion button are pronounced with a little red dot and is big enough to control ergonomics. Round conclusion button is ring a zoom driver. Shiny button is coupled with a open button right under conclusion. In over exhibition phone, exist two short key serve functions which as developed for camera. This allow users to change shot mode, white balance, exposure value and color tone.
Slap side is surprisingly easy to manage in N93I. microSD and USB cable port are covered by a slap pop that outside and plastic whose is quite more resilient. USB's port also serve as for TV connector that without cable and headset. Charger port telephone is right under port USB.
One can open device such any other clamshell, except file can be twisted second two direction. There also second degree of freedom known, which allows main display spiral towards consumer. It is also known as view mode it where served as a media player to N93i. These actions in fact lead to other way, automatically known by the system. So when screen is turned towards you, camera abilities will be called up without your assistance.
Keypad has been given little do again, not include him large buttons for one slim and nicer contemplation keypad. Keys are separated by a little ridge plastic. However, for like a big phone submerged keypad design make reject a struggle little buttons, ditto when text communicate. When put by level in media player format, keypad top end buttons render useless.
Features:
Show abundant - N93i is filled to spill applications from all forms and colours. N93i is still using Symbian 9.1 OS, S60 third edition and majority than what you see in N93 is still was very perceives in N93i. Menu response are accustomed as most consumer will be notice how long it will take get to in memory applications use, especially photograph / gallery video.
Many standard Nokia applications are still around - alarm clock, dictionary, voice recorder and calendar coupled with promoter single individual. Another that practical part smartphone is Nokia Office, who possess a recorder, currency converter, calculator, notes, Quickoffice, Adobe PDF's reader, Dictionary and even a barcode reader.
Multimedia functionality inclusiveness an instant player, film player, radio, music player and a RealPlayer. N93i supports following music formats - WMA Microsoft and AAC in all method for iTunes users and 64 MIDI polyphonic and WMA. Almost all bit rate our MP3 tested is support. For any playlist, one can enable reshuffle and repeat a or all songs. There are some preinstalled equalizers you can adapt manually. Player can be used while reduce. In this mode, you will see song title and time his recording in standby screen.
Music played is fragile and clear with bundled headphones. However, speaker literally exploded when volume is in maximum, and produce one concern echoed good. Meanwhile your favourite films can be played good through player Real but there is still no options for rewind or fast forward. N93i provides 50MB default memory for consumers with one 1GB card miniSD - perfect for pictures and video. Users but power may want to choose for maximum SD's card size- which is 2GB for music and function multimedia.
Manufacturer demands N93i can provide up to 3.9 hours talk time and till 275 hours standby. It may for uers little gangster dependent power on longer battery life in the day. Many phone features is the power- use, especially camera and functions video.
Camera:
N93i's core is still smartphone camera. Boasts camera 3.3 megapixels and a 3x zooms optical and 20x zooms digital- cut cameras view image while zooming and install original image by present image compression. N93i relates zoom digital automatically first his zoom's length longest and optical has been reached.
When it clicks, you cannot help except feel that you use a real camera. Camera quality are fairly well. However, it depend on light amend algorithm to compensate, make aesthetically pleasing pictures but unusually bright. Also, is less effective camera when shots shot motion as camera is fairly slow and snap what one want a split second then. Furthermore, LED flashes only was adequate to close but shots do not think it to implement every time.
More N93i's highlight is him DVD-like records quality, in 30 frames a moment, and we forced say that recording is of high quality. However, recorded video have scratching single sound largish in a quiet environment, and each can only imagine background clangour when recording in a noise environment. However, recorded video is sophisticated quality available to modern cellular phone.
Furthermore, Nokia prepared with we software video editing in the form Adobe Premier Elements for directors desire. Software attach to your PC with suitable Nokia PC allow editing for quick, easy material. Concomitant this job with software Lifeblog, is designed to help blogger post direct material from N93i. Lifeblog's software direct helps users edit and environment shift text video and images.
Games:
Preloaded games including classic Nokia Snake 3D and demo one version System Rush- objective is to live chase high speed and manoeuvre through barriers. There also a compilation called game card deck card ?including Golf and Klondike. With one Micro SD, there enough place to pile Java games
Connectivity:
N93i is still complete square with band (WCDMA 2100 / GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900) ability. Apart from GSM 900 and 1900, telephone is crowded with additional groups ensure environment involvement Malaysia. It also supported WLAN, Bluetooth, Infrared Port, USB, HSCSD and EDGE. Not exist web application to phone this, so one would have to rely on network standard Nokia browsers.
Extras:
There a soft bring pouch is designed to protect phone from scratch. It to be greater from own phone, so phone enter handier and then pouch fitted with one network. There also a wrist Nokia tape so users can take them phone in their wrist.
Impressions:
A flashy and slim Version N93, N93i is more to fashion-conscious. It had lost many his weight and his features currently. Although it ask cost quite RM 3,000, it is quite reasonable to single feature filled multimedia smartphone. Aside, keypad ergonomics has quite deteriorated with sink
If you own the N93, then you won’t get a wholly new experience. But for newcomers, then they should consider some of the N93i ’s functionality and smartphone qualities.
Review & Comment Triband Hand phone Camera: 2 Mega Pixel Main Display: 2.1 In 262,144 colors, (176 x 220 pixels) Secondary Display: 1.4 in 65536 colors (176 x 65 pixels) Messaging: MMS, SMS Connectivity: GSM900/180/1900/GPRS,EDGE,BLUETOOTH, Phone Memory: 128MB Expansion Slot: microSD (1 GB Card Included) Stand by/ Talk time: 155 hours/255 hours Other Features: Music player,organiser,stop watch,voice recorder,touch sensitive user interface. Weight: 77g Dimensions: (W x D x H): 103.5 x 44 x 9.44 mm Malaysia Price: MYR 1,499.00 Website: http://www.samsung.com/my Detail/comment:
Mobile phone lately slim, fashionable and over need all, crowded feature. It is no surprise F300 comes crowded with various multimedia features, including one innovative two screen design. So, F300 is another call a long line uniquely patterned portable phone one would either love or genuinely hate.
I should acknowledged that design is very interesting and attractive ¡V so far at least one person has asked me about when my phone whipped it out in public. Suffice to say, F300 is guaranteed single head lathe.
Two F300 side functionality was the split between phone and side music. On the phone side, you will not get something out ordinary, fair a large that pleasant Pad to type in and use. One thing that act do sine loco is him unusually small 1.4in censor (more about who later). Flip to other parties and you will meet a large, attractive 2.1in censor and a sensitive touch pad for navigation.
On both sides phone, is several buttons and slot smaller. Since not exist could get off battery protect to you to insert you SIM's card, slot rests with side phone. There you will also get headphones, charger and slot microSD's card and a button alternate phone and mode music.
Messaging nightmare
To be honest, F300 designs succeed difficult to be used as a mobile phone. Main factor turned me closed from fully use him as a telephone is statement it has a small LCD screen. F300 refines is far very small to see SMS texts. While keypad feel good use, read messages not as pleasant because you is limited to read two for three lines of text at one time.
In terms of making calls, F300 makes and accept call good. Only my problem did get in use F300 as a telephone is it no that inaudible ringing tone could be heard in a noise environment.
To make matters worse, not exist vibration function to be cautious you a incoming call. Another feature lacking F300 is a speakerphone so it is quite uncomfortable in situations when you cannot hold phone till your ears.
Amazing Stamina
Phone result two screen nature, it only seems naturally those Samsung if protective casing piece of leather to protect him of be scratching one post to goods in control us. To my surprise protection case come up with a built in outside battery reach battery life F300 very.
Usually ordinary mobile phone continued one thing or one charge over two day single. Outside battery with the help, ended F300 four days continued use before finally distribute. Suffice to say, I am impressed with his stamina.
Extraordinary battery life make F300 very useful for days long without or when one only there was no while to prosecute you phone. Meanwhile, music side F300 clearly looks like it is designed for a serious music phone. All is here ¡V a easy-to-use music player, sensitive pad one touch and a expansion slot microSD.
F300 is a decent music phone ¡V it has sound quality that good will help keep new things in your daily commute. Overall, music play on F300 have one good mix three and without distortion base obvious and any in sound.
Also, is relatively easy music player use although one would has earmarked use to controls. While sensitive touch pad to be simple to get used to, I found other buttons little clustered simultaneously and more than once I stressed chance wrong button.
Fundamental options as repeat or drag songs is also present. Exist preset a variety way equalizer and a 3D good choice. However, not exist equalizer manual mode so you no can pinch it to feel you.
Not Picture Perfect:
Camera-wise, F300 2 megapixel camera is the average present best camera. I only managed to get decent see the picture in brightly lit environment. Pictures majority taken indoors dressed abusive and noise. Camera also suffer from follow up conclusion, make him unimaginably difficult to take action shots. Video recording is extremely jerky and almost cannot be seen even when recorded at highest quality.
Other multimedia functions as sound recorder and FM's radio trouble work who without too much. Users has two methods transfer songs between their phone and PC. One can pick to drag and fallen music rows microSD's for card directly (there also a card reader provided for you facility) or use mode Media Transfer to in keeping with you Windows Media's playlist.
Another option is to install Samsung PC Studio software to transfer music, pictures and videos. While programme see good and spiffy, clunky interface succeed difficult to transfer songs.
Wacky Web Browsing
F300 comes with a sailor web but after attempt to surf Web on the phone, me do with was confident say that this phone not designed for network browsing. To enter network browsing application, you have to bring up phone side F300, enter network speech and then rising it compared to see it on the screen bigger. Since not exist keypad to type on the side music, one would have to make all typing you on the phone side.
Alternative will become use sensitive pad touch to scroll through own letters and that is definitely unwise. This made network browsing both dull and disappointing as you forced continued rising between phone and music side to enter text and graze. In bright side, large 2.1in censor offers you lot of room to see webpages, make them easier to read.
The Verdict:
Overall, Samsung Ultra Music F300 is a telephone uniquely designed seems to have all a user can want in a telephone. However, F300 is a Jack-of-all-trades and no sir. As a music player, successful F300 in the quality tone delivery although music player interface could have been improved on. However, greatest problem faced by F300 is it lack fundamental that nimble phone features vibration and speakerphone like functions
More, two side design no really make him any easier use the telephone.
Pro: Intriguing design; good music recording; excellent battery life. Con: Under camera average; there was no speakerphone, manner no vibration; should switch parts to enter some function.
The Motorola L6 appears to be an entry or medium level type device, judging from its asking price of RM 899. However, this causes the device to sport some rather low end characteristics, and this might not be everybody’s cup of tea.
In the box
Handset Transceiver
Battery (standard battery)
Charger
Headset
USB Data cable
Software CD-Rom
Manual
Exterior The Motorola L6 is pretty much the candybar version of the well-known RAZR V3 and its multicoloured cousins. This is immediately apparent from the stylised keypad,
which is made out of the same etched-metal material as the original V3. I’m no metallurgist, but it would appear that the materials are the same.
The phone looks and feels like a flat wafer, and this takes some getting used to. The width of the phone is just about the same as with some other devices, but the thin wafer of the phone does not give you very much grip. I found my fingers frequently searching for grip on the uncommonly thin sides of the device.
The battery cover is of the peel-off type, where you press down the button on the top of the phone and then pry the entire back of the phone off. Isn’t it simply amazing what they are doing with the battery sizes these days?
The charger port is a USB type and it is located on the right side of the phone, just beside the screen. The speakers are on the lower back of the phone, just south of the battery cover.
Buttons/Screen The keys are backlit in a bright electric blue, which is slightly brighter than that of the V3. I found the navigation buttons to be annoying, especially when it kept selecting an unwanted function when you push the ring-like navigation pad upwards.
Of course, the etched metal keys are always a welcome feature and infinitely more appealing then regular moulded plastic or rubber. The buttons are great, and there are only two extra buttons on the side of the phone. The one on the left activates the Push -to-talk service if you have subscribed for it, and the one on the right activates the camera.
The screen is a 65K CSTN LCD one, which would have been great a year ago. As it is now, the screen is slightly less than what we are used to seeing nowadays. Nevertheless, the brightness of the screen is quite satisfactory in most of the lighting conditions that we tried it out.
Software/Messaging The menu is the one that is by now common to nearly all Motorola devices save those that run on the Linux OS. As usual, pressing the menu key calls up the menu. In Motorola phones, the menu is a set of nine icons laid out in a grid format.
Messaging is a little disappointing here, as the response time in between characters is rather slow. Also, since we are on the subject of slow, Motorola has a rather annoying default setting for the Search function in the Contacts list. Instead of automatically selecting alphabet by alphabet when the keys are pressed repeatedly, the Motorola pops up a menu asking you to choose which of the four characters on the key you are trying to select.
This menu then forces the user to shift to the navigation pad to select the desired alphabet, and then a further press of a softkey is required before you are shown the list of contact names corresponding to the alphabet that you have just selected.
PIM 500 names is the limit for this phonebook. Most users would have difficulty reaching 300 anyway, but the limit is something to consider if you have lots of names in your contact list.
The calculator, date book and alarm clock appear here in this phone, just as in nearly most other Motorola devices to date. The alarm clock is worthy of a mention though. Being able to set flexible and multiple alarms is a boon to those who have multiple schedules to balance in their daily lives.
Camera/Video The L6 uses a conventional CMOS camera specified at 0.3 mega pixels. The camera supports a digital zoom
f up to 4x. However, in the age of mega pixel camera phones, I simply must say that this camera is terrible.
The pictures are blurry and usually out of focus. Zooming in tends to make things worse instead of better. The video function is not much better, especially if you move the handset around while making the video. It appears that the phone’s imaging software is trying to catch up with the movement of the phone.
Photo files are stored in the JPEG format. The device claims to play back clips in MP4, 3GPP and H.263. However, with the miniscule onboard memory on offer, I could not say for certain how good the playback is, as most of my clips are a lot larger than the 8MB or so available.
Multimedia/Voice Push to talk or PTT might be the surprise here, what with Maxis offering PTT packages and the other telecommunication companies sure to follow suit.
Again, Motorola’s claim of being able to play back mp3 music is not accurate. he L6, just as in the V360, is rather fond of abruptly truncating mp3 clips. Again, the small memory is a real minus point, as you will not be able to store much music on this phone.
The L6, just like with its cousin clamshells, discards the infrared function altogether. Bluetooth is present in the phone as usual, and GPRS is supported as well. A USB port is found on the top left side of the phone, and this can be used to connect a data cable to the computer, or to connect the charger to the phone.
This device is not a 3G phone. The GPRS goes all the way up to class 10, but that is about all that you are going to get. Considering that the price of the phone is rather low, it would be a fair thing to leave out the 3G circuitry from the device.
Games There are three games in the L6 phone. They are BlockBreaker, Skipping Stones and Submarines. When you activate the games, a small cup of coffee icon appears at the top of the screen, signifying that the phone is using a Java application.
The tight navigation pad made the gaming an iffy affair. Frequently, my stubby fingers would hit something other than what was intended, which did make for some rather frustrating gaming. I’d pass on this function.
Editor's opinion The Motorola L6 delivers pretty much what it is supposed to be. It is a medium-range device good for those looking to upgrade from a lower-end model.
It looks great, perhaps much too great for a phone of its class. That is thanks to the idea of designing it to look like the candybar version of the popular V3. We can only surmise that later versions will include a TransFlash card and probably a little bit more memory than this one.
If you can live with less than 10 MBs of memory, than this might be a good phone for you. This one should be a good buy when the price dips a little from its current RM 899.
This is a continuation of the SLVR L7. And differs from the predecessor in the presence of 1.3 MP camera, support for EDGE and microSD connector, and finally a renewed user interface. Besides, the phone has a musical player prcessing MP3, AAC, AAC+ and ACC+ Enhanced formats. Stereo soun can be transmitted via Bluetooth via A2DP profile.
Class: fashion
Position in the line: above Motorola SLVR L7
Rivals: Samsung X820
Description based on official information, preliminary
General features
Announced in 2006, official announcement on the 27 October 2006, on the market since 4 quarter 2006
GSM 850/900/1800/1900
Colour screen, up to 262000 colours (TFT), the resolution of 176x220 pixels (30x37 mm)
Battery type Li-Ion
Battery life:
standby mode specified
talk mode specified
Menu order is editable, tags
Сolours: black, other variants are possible
Weight: 96 gramms
Dimensions: 113 x 49 x 11.5 mm
Memory
Memory for 1000 names, each name entry may contain up to several phone numbers (unlimited number). Fields for complete postal address address, extra data. A field for e-mail address. A photo or an image can be assigned to a name, a personla call melody is selected.
Call log of last 10 calls of all types
Expansion connector for MicroSD
Call management, ringing tones, voice functions
Vibracall
You can use a mp3, aac or aac++ file as a call melody
64-tones polyphony
Various modes of vibracall, schemes
Voice dial
Speakerphone
SMS
MMS
EMS
Instant Messaging
Predictive text input iTap
Camera
Integrated 1.3 MP camera (the maximum resolution of 1024x1280 pixels)
Records videoclips MPEG4/Н.263
Digital zoom 8x, effects
Multimedia
Themes
mp3/aac files as a call melody
Integrated video and audio player (MPEG4, H.263, МР3, ААС, ААС+, е-ААС)
Java (MIDP 2.0)
Connectivity
GPRS (4+2)
EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
Bluetooth (A2DP)
WAP 2.0, xHTML
IrDA is absent
e-mail (POP3/IMAP4)
Synchronization with PC (miniUSB, Bluetooth)
Organizer and extras
Melody composer (MotoMixer)
Media Editor - image editor
Calendar, date, time
Calculator
Organizer with alarm clock, various kind of events
Firstly i do like this phone a lot, it came with a bluetooth headset and 1gb transflash card from o2.
Although as mentioned in an earlier post it didnt come with headphones but a look around the internet soon sorted that issue out.
A few problems i have experienced so far are:
Call quality can be very poor and you get an intermitent crackle on the line, also you get the same using the blue tooth head set. Thephone can be slow to respond when you have to many items in your sent items folder.
And my biggest gripe and im directing this at o2 is that the phone seems to be locked down, i have seen an Australian version of this phone and the Data/USB option is avilable and is not on the o2 version, hence this stops any modding of the the hand set and installing new apps etc. I've called O2 a few times but to be honest they really cannot help me and dont seem to know what i am talking about!
One saving grace is the quality of the mp3 player which is an absolute must when i am on long train journeys and also the I-mode internet option is great for obtaining info like sports results without costing the earth.
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