Tomi Ahonen loves his N93 to death, hails it as the superphone for 2007

Just to give you some back ground on Tomi:

I was employed by Nokia (NYSE: NOK) up to 2001 and Nokia is a continuing customer of my consulting services. So yes, I am biased. But I’ve also used over a dozen Nokia branded mobile phones and nearly a dozen non-Nokia branded phones in my career, and am a very heavy user. Since the invention of the smartphone category in 2000, all of my phones have been smartphones. So I speak with considerable experience.

Check out what a few things he has to say about his N93:

First, you play with the twisting motions. Some of the phones seem a bit cheap in their hinges, sliding or folding. This seems solid. Like the doors of a Mercedes Benz.

The details are all just what you’d expect from a top-end high-price device. Like you feel when you operate a professional Canon camera, or drive an Audi executive sedan. All the controls feel solid, just right, engineered. Not just there by accident. There are separate operation keys for camera function on the side of the phone, which are inactive when the phone is in phone or browser mode. The battery life is very good. And small style things stand out, just the kind of "I am an expensive phone" details. There are so many. Like the cover screen with its short animation in colour. And the extra covers for the miscellaneous connectors.  And a lot of user-customization for keys, etc.

This is by a wide margin the best texting phone Nokia has ever manufactured! The keys are all large enough, but distinct. They each are contoured to help very easy blind texting. The travel of the keys is just long enough, but not too long. It is a DELIGHT to write text messages on this phone.

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Nokia has always been a handset maker who made phones that were a pleasure to type on. This has recently changed however and looking at such devices like the N91 and all the other various slider phones, makes you wonder what exactly is going on internally!