Nokia N95

nickmack

Just had a call from my network provider who tentatively said this will be available Mid-Jan on O2. They also said I could get it free on upgrade.

Surely will be the best phone available on the high street. Similar to the excellent N80 Smartphone I was going to get, but with WiFi, up to 2Gb Memory, plus HSDPA, 5MP Camera and GPS built in!

What do others think?

http://www.nokia.com/nseries/index.html#product,n95

sockpuppetuk

Personally I would snatch their hand off.
Was reading about it in the new What Mobile that came out today and they didnt have a bad word to say about it.

I have a N80 which is a good phone but the N95 looks so much better.

Nemo101

yeh but orange said they are not stocking them because they arent reliable. I personally would go for Sony W850 or 950

Silver_3

The Symbian S60 operating software on the N series is VERY slow and frustrating to use for this reason.
The release date is March so I will be very surprised if O2 get it before then.
I know this from Nokia trainers.

Silver

nickmack

Nemo101 wrote:

yeh but orange said they are not stocking them because they arent reliable. I personally would go for Sony W850 or 950

Many Nokia's first firmware releases have bugs.

Do you have a source for Orange saying this?

Dannyboywhufc

I spoke to 02 today and the woman said Feb 26th

sockpuppetuk

Nemo101 wrote:

yeh but orange said they are not stocking them because they arent reliable. I personally would go for Sony W850 or 950

Orange branding is probably the worst of all networks and they tend to mess up the phones all on their own. I have a unbranded N80 and a mate of mine has a Orange branded one. His is slow and buggy where as mine is faster and i have no problems.
O2 branded are about the best as they hardly have any on.

W950i is a good music phone but has no camera and the W850i is basically a slightly upgraded W900i.

There is no comparison between those phones and the N80 .. never mind the N95

nickmack

Silver wrote:

The Symbian S60 operating software on the N series is VERY slow and frustrating to use for this reason.

As sockpuppetuk said, when Network operators brand the phones, it slows them down considerably. I've got an N70 which is a vanilla version and the speed is fine. Previously, I had the O2 butchered version and it everything took about twice as long.

kai666

sockpuppetuk wrote:

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W950i is a good music phone but has no camera and the W850i is basically a slightly upgraded W900i.

i don't agree that the w850 is an upgraded w900. Yes it has an upgraded mp3 player, and is smaller. But on the w850 the camera only has a 4x zoom not 8x zoom like the w900, and the w900 has a 400 and something megabyte internal memory. the w850's is about 64(?) megs

it's more of an upgraded w810

nickmack

Dannyboywhufc wrote:

I spoke to 02 today and the woman said Feb 26th

Yes, I would guess that's nearer to the right date, O2 release many new phones first. From my experience Carphone Warehouse (who told me) are not known for their honesty.

rash.m2k

Nemo101 wrote:

yeh but orange said they are not stocking them because they arent reliable. I personally would go for Sony W850 or 950

Comparing this phone to these SE phones is like comparing a Nokia N80 to a Nokia 3310!!!

This phone is in a league of its own!

And it has a dedictaed graphcis controller so the speed should be quite fast.

But you can't have the best of both worlds, this is a smartphone and they are not. Simple.