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The Nokia N93 in theory was a greatidea but in practice a bit of a ’mare to use. Its makers rightly knewthat camcorders were not something a person takes with them everyday,making the enjoyment of on-the-go filmmaking nearly non-existent.
So Nokia looked at the hugely successful cameraphone model – it’s acamera and a phone! – and decided to apply this to videomakers.
As a mini camcorder, the N93 was a decent bit of kit – Carl Zeisslens, 3x optical zoom, 3.2MP footage. The problem was that it was toochunky to be your everyday phone, so the whole idea of it being atake-everywhere device went out the window.
It successor, the N93i was sleeker but still a tad too chunky foryour pocket. The obvious step then is for Nokia to make its newcamcorder/phone thinner.
Chunky size Well, if the company’s leaked patent, as spotted by Tech Digest, is anything to go by, then smaller simply isn’t the case.
The crude black-and-white sketch shows a heftier upwards slidingmodel that looks mightily similar to its brethren. A new feature that’ssketched is a swivelling lens that makes the product look more likeJohnny 5 than the N95.
Even if this is a very early mock-up – which it more than likely is– Nokia's new videophone (rumoured to be the N85) needs to shed a fewinches before it’s destined for budding videographers’ pocketseverywhere.