I recently received a Nokia N90 mobile phone as part of the Nokia N90 Blogger Relations Program. I haven't had much of an opportunity to use or write about the N90 since I received it. What better way to introduce it to Operation Gadget readers than to show off it's biggest feature– digital video recording– than by bringing it along while I clear the driveway of snow after the first major snowfall of the year in Newtown?
Shot 12/09/2005 at 10:09 am
Ten minutes later, my neighbor Frank arrives with an 8-horsepower two-stage snowthrower to help me clear the driveway.
Shot 12/09/2005 at 10:19 am
After the snowthrower came through, it took me about 15 minutes to clear off my cars and shovel the parts of the driveway that the snowthrower couldn't reach.
In this video clip, I demonstrate features of the N90 that allow me to do a bit of on-the-scene reporting: the rotating camera lens– a Carl Zeiss Tessar 2.95/5.5 Autofocus 2 Megapixel that can be used to capture a 352 x 288 pixel movie at 30 frames per second. That resolution and frame rate is said to be fairly close to VHS-quality. This clip also demonstrates the quality of the built-in microphone. I'm narrating in real time here.
I've done no editing to these clips. What you see is what came out of the N90.
Shot 12/09/2005 at 10:49 am
In order to post these video clips, I signed up for a trial of a service called Audioblog.com. Audioblog.com began life as an audio clip hosting service for blogs and has evolved into a podcasting and video hosting service. Hopefully it will make publishing video clips from the N90 a piece of cake.
Thanks to Jonathan Greene of atmaspheric | endeavors who gave me the idea to use Audioblog.com for hosting my video clips and Ross Mayfield who published a nice summary of Nokia N90 features which helped me fill in some facts about the N90 that I left out of my video clip narration.