Vox offers weblog templates with Nokia N93, N95, N800 themes

If you use Six Apart’s Vox for your weblog and you love Nokia’s N93 or N95 camera phones or Nokia’s N800 Internet Tablet, you might want to take a look at new Vox templates.

Nokia has created six templates — three designs, each in two colors — for the N800 (see below).

Nokia also has created Vox templates for the new N95 five megapixel camera phone (see below) and the 3.2 megapixel N93 camera phone (not shown).

Nokia has created a total of 16 templates for the three devices.  I don’t know if you may see the designs without being a Vox member, but the N800 templates are in “New” designs, and those templates plus the phone templates are in the “Photo-based” design section.

Nokia and Six Apart previously signed an agreement to work together to facilitate integration of weblogs (including Six Apart’s TypePad weblog service — that I use for mine) with Nokia phones with an emphasis on — surprise! — imaging.

I’m a fan of both TypePad and Nokia products.  (Disclosure:  I’m part of Nokia’s Blogger Relations program and Andy Abramson — VoIP guru and marketing/public relations expert — sends me many of the company’s hottest gadgets.)

Playing favorites

The N93 and the N95 are two of my favorite cellular phones.  The N95 (see below) is probably my all-time favorite….at least for now. 

The five megapixel resolution and 30–frames-per-second video capabilities combined with the phone’s excellent music (FM radio and MP3) and video capabilities make this the phone I’m more likely to take than any other — except for Research in Motion’s BlackBerry 8700g because of its full QWERTY keyboard.

I’m a keyboard guy (as I’ve previously ranted in this weblog) so I typically carry the 8700g as well as at least one feature-rich multimedia handset.  (I’m eagerly awaiting a rumored full QWERTY keyboard BlackBerry with a camera since I’m also very much a camera phone guy.)

N93 versus N95

The extra megapixels of the N95 are an advantage, especially because I love cropping photos.  I’m very big on tight cropping so when I chop away extraneous pixels a high resolution camera is very useful.

However, I’m also a big fan of optical zooms rather than virtually useless digital zooms.  That’s why I also like the N93 because of its 3x optical zoom.  It makes a significant difference to me when taking photos and I wish the N95 had an optical zoom.

(I’ll soon post photos and videos comparing the N93 with the N95.)

Speaking of Nokia devices and keyboards, I’m pondering whether to get the smaller, lighter folding Stowaway Bluetooth keyboard — that Andy uses — or the larger and heavier Stowaway that has an extra row of keys.  Interestingly, the small keyboard retails for $20 more.  Functionality versus portability.

The N800

Nokia sent me an N800 (see below) that doesn’t incorporate a phone but, instead is designed to work via WiFi or Bluetooth.  It very quickly finds and connects to my home WiFi router.  (The N95 has WiFi, too, but it’s sometimes flakey trying to locate available networks; it usually manages to find the network I want, though not always immediately.  The more I use phones with WiFi, the more I like cellular + WiFi)

The N800 has a large bright screen, two surprisingly powerful speakers, two SD card slots, a touch screen with on-screen keyboard, excellent audio (FM radio, Internet radio, MP3) and video viewing capabilities, good Web/RSS browsing/reading features, useful note-taking features and video calls with a pop-out low-resolution camera that I haven’t yet used.

Although it’s too large to fit in your pocket (unless you have the pockets of Captain Kangaroo), it’s certainly small and light enough to easily carry around.  The Linux-based device is something like a giant PDA, although Nokia executives would probably pale at the comparison!

Being a keyboard guy, I think the N800 will be much more useful to me once I get a folding Bluetooth keyboard.  I’d also love to find a case in which the N800 and keyboard fit snugly but without scratching each other.  All the cases I’ve seen either are too small or too large.