It’s official. Well unofficially official. Myself and Michele went to Vodafone and got us some Nokia N95′s. I’d been fairly happy with my N91, but me having thick thumbs… I found the keypad a bit of a chore to use. Also the N91 was sooo fricken heavy, mostly because of its 4GB microdrive but the N95 weighs in at 120gramms.
Good things about the N95:
a) Web browser rocks, it’s a version of Safari apparently and it renders our site, crazy DHTML menus and all, very well. I used it a fair bit over the weekend and I like it. Most sites look as one would expect.
b) 5Mega Pixel camera, wow. That’s about all I can say. This small little device that weighs a lot less and is physically smaller than the N91 has one of the best cameras in the phone market. Not only does it have a good resolution, it is also designed so that it can be used as a normal camera. The up/down volume bottons are for zooming, then there’s a gallery button and the all important photo snap button and you can do this while the phone is on it’s side which allows you to make use of the large 2.6″ (240 x 320) screen.
c) Other misc features: Wifi which works very well, Bluetooth which seems quite compatibable with tonnes of devices including heaps of car kits etc, infra red which now is mostly not used, but hey it has it, 3G support which works very nicely, MMS and txt message support etc.
d) Digital music player – supports MP3/AAC/AAC+/eAAC+/WMA/M4A with playlists and equalizer.
e) It’s mighty pretty, I like it a lot.
f) It takes those new mini-SD cards that are super small
g) GPS, which works well. Friend mentioned getting route 66 software for it which I’m going to look into this evening.
Faults:
a) Battery life
b) Battery life
c) Battery life
Yes, overall this is a fantastic phone. The battery life is pretty poor. Just incase anyone asks, I’ve 3G off most of the time along with bluetooth, wifi scanning etc. About 1 day of use is all I’m getting. This makes me not want it. But all the other cool features save it for me.
It’s a deadly phone, get one.
It sounds good alright. I wonder why they haven’t been able to make the battery life a bit better.
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Hi Paul,
How much did the it set you back? The 02 website is quoting pretty decent bill pay prices but surprise, surprise they are all out of stock.
Are the vodafone ones locked down in anyway?
Hi Dave,
409 euro from Vodafone. The Vodafone shop has had only got 2 at the time.
Also ordered 2 x long life batteries and desk charger/stands for them off ebay.
My god you and your bloody phones! Another one!
Sue, sure why not?
It’s deadly 
Do you happen to have to famous slider issues with it ?
I had and decided to open up the phone myself and managed to fix it with some stupid tape. But hey now it is alltight and slides good.
No? And not heard of anything either? Whats that about Rob?
Well if you use the phone a lot it is know to get more and more loose. If you have one made in finland you are lucky as they are known to be better. The ones made in china sucks the most.
If have the one made in finland but recently (after 8 weeks of intensive usage) it started to wobble aswell.
I fixed it using this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaEVJeRE8iU
More information:
http://www.google.nl/search?q=n95+slider+issues&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a