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Why the N93i will not have Continuous Auto-Focus

February 26th, 2007 at 6:29 pm

Official word from Nokia has come through as to why the N93i final production model will not have the continuous auto-focus feature on video recording. Here it is:

This feature was tested during the product development phase, however, when the implementation was reviewed it was judged to generate too much noise both in viewfinder mode and during video recording. Rather than disappoint customers with a poor experience we decided to remove this additional feature from the final product, user guides and marketing materials.

It is unfortunate that we provided sample products for review with this feature enabled thus causing confusion. We regret any disappointment caused and will work to make sure such cases do not happen again.

Jump over to some of the guys like Stephan at RingNokia.com, James at Thecreativelifeblog.com or into the forums talking about what’s going on, like Allaboutsymbian or Symbian-Freak, to discuss the situation.

note: the N93i does have auto-focus on still-camera mode