One of the many good things about hanging out with femes bloggers like suanie is that sometimes I get to indirectly enjoy some of the extra benefits she gets due to her fame. For example, I too was invited to the local movie Cinta‘s premier; and thanks to her connection (which type I don’t know) to David Lian I get my hands on a review unit of Nokia N95 to play with.

Nokia N95
Top of the line N series phone from Nokia, the N95

I have been using this phone for a better part of a week now, and frankly speaking, there isn’t much that this phone can’t do. I am used to the Symbian operating system as I had previously own a Nokia 7610 prior to the SE K800i.

While the K800i does take good pictures and have very good SMS features, it is lacking many extras the N95 offers. The N95 spots a higher resolution with the 5MP Carl Zeiss optics, then there’s the pretty useful Wifi connectivity, and on top of all these, there are GPS and push mail functions. It also supports HSDPA (3.5G), edge, bluetooth, and infrared.

The most interesting function has got to be the GPS. For the uninitiated, GPS, or Global Positioning System, is a set of satellites that allows the receiver to calculate it’s position anywhere on the surface of the earth with access to the sky. This phone includes the maps and routing program that is similar (or the same?) with the Nokia 6110 navigator that the hot chick has. I’m going to rely on the routing feature when I go to JB for a friend’s wedding and then to Penang this weekend since the Malaysian map is included.

That said, there are some minor weakness of this multimedia super phone. The most glaring being the battery life, while the basic phones could now last for almost a week on a single charge, I have to plug this thing to the wall at least every other day, but this is to be expected for something that packs so many features in it. I suppose if you are not a wifi junky and not using the GPS extensively, the battery should lasts for several more days. While the SMS function is superior to that of the iPhone (no forward, can’t send to multiple recipients), it doesn’t have the predictive words function like the newer SEs.

Still, this is a super phone and I really enjoy using it. I just got myself a car charger to eliminate the battery life issue of using GPS for hours. I wish David all the luck to pry the phone out of my cold dead fingers if he wants it back.

Nokia N95, my new toy to play with!
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8 thoughts on “Nokia N95, my new toy to play with!

  • November 1, 2007 at 9:40 am
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    coolio. this stuff horne chicks man!

    pls take some snapshots and show us the quality.

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  • November 2, 2007 at 8:56 am
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    i’ve both the E90 and the N95. i just wish the web browsers of both would support flash.

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  • November 2, 2007 at 9:36 am
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    Yah, support for flash would be nice, then we could all be playing scrabulous on facebook. đŸ˜€

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  • November 2, 2007 at 11:47 am
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    scrabulous on nokia n95 z0mg

    there goes all my time

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  • November 2, 2007 at 11:59 am
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    Oooi! your cold dead finger? đŸ™‚ Haha…. we’ll make you ‘willing’ let it go.

    Enjoy the device. Also wanted to point out that got predictive text lah. Press the button on the device that looks like a pencil to get the ‘editing’ options to come up.

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  • November 2, 2007 at 2:42 pm
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    davidlian,

    Lets see how willing will I be. hehehe..

    By the way I was talking about predictive words, as in predicting the next word after typing the current. I do use the T9 predictive text. đŸ˜‰

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