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Originally Posted by jessi3k3 View Post
That's correct. Focus only happens before starting the video recording session. If you're referring to autofocus while recording, good luck finding a phone that does that.

Nokia did once mess around with continuous auto focus on the N93i, here's a video of it working on pre-release firmware

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_j2nX1Gc4Q

but was later scrapped due to the motor being too loud. I think if this would be implemented now, you'll still be able to hear the motor of the unit autofocusing. Rather than dealing with all the complaints of motor noises coming out of autofocus while recording, Nokia just decided to give the camera a fixed length focus or, additionally, the ability to focus before recording.
N93i has Optical Zoom and lense. That's why the focusing motor making noise. N900 doesn't really have any moving part, despite the 0.1cm movement of the actual camera lense when focusing. Althought it is moving, there shouldn't be any noise from it. N93i on another hand it makes noise when focusing and zooming.

I think this could be possible if someone actually get a hold of the source code of the Camera API and application. If Nokia ever going to release it that is.