Slashphone thinks Nokia has to stop bragging about the video quality the N93 produces

This is the old convergence syndrome. Whenever you try to build an all in one unit, one of two things can happen:

1. It does one thing VERY well, and everything else it tries to do sucks
2. It does everything equally horrible

Now I don’t have an N93, but from what I can tell Slashphone does have a point. Now of course we can’t forget that less than a month ago Rob Dickinson used a Nokia N93 to shoot a music video. Let me remind you that he is a professional. Watch the video that slashphone posted then watch the music video Mr. Dickinson produced:

Slashphone:

Direct link to video

Rob Dickinson:

Direct link to video

Now if you read the comments on YouTube from the Slashphone video, they say that the quality wasn’t set to maximum, and of course once YouTube transcodes your video we all know it turns to crap.

I want you to check out this video Ken from Digital Common Sense shot, on his Nokia N93.

Download the file in mp4 format directly

Now look what happens when you churn it thru YouTube:

Direct link to video

Conclusion … I don’t know what to say really. It’s better to give your buddies an MP4 file then to put it on YouTube. Any serious vidcast isn’t going to use YouTube anyway, and even if they do use a flash based player, the camera they’ll use for shooting will be of exponential better quality than a N93. If you’re in the market for an N93 may I recommend you take a serious look at this Sanyo, which records video at 720p and costs $600! That and if you want to share you videos with friends use blip.tv

The Nokia N93 is an excellent phone by any standards from the world’s leading manufacturer Nokia, but there’s one problem. If you look at this video posted on YouTube, it’s nowhere near bragging rights quality. Of course, the individual is moving on a water-taxi, but what better way to show off the phones video capturing quality than moving water and various buildings.

The video recording resolution is 640 X 480 (VGA) and it supports H.263, AMR, and MPEG-4 video with a 20X optical zoom if you wish to use the feature. Let’s hope there is another video. For a phone that runs well into the $700 – $800 price range, I would think again if this video is of the highest quality that the phone can render. That’s basically a cheap DV cam if you shop around.

Source: Slashphone