N95: Great All-Rounder
Steve Litchfield of «The Smartphones Show» has released his programme no. 28 - a Nokia N95 special.
Overall, Steve considers the N95 to be «a great all-rounder» with a great form factor and weight. I took particular notice of the following observations in Steve's enthusiastic, but critical review:
- The camera is slow - it takes approx. 2 secs to focus and approx. 5 secs to store an image.
- Battery life is poor, obviously. That much was to be expected from the N80 experience.
- Putting the phone to work - using several applications and so forth - results in frequent «Out of memory» errors. Future firmware upgrades will hopefully remedy this.
Steve concludes that the N95 is a «Jack of all trades - Master of none», but the phone really is cutting edge in several areas. Steve labels the N95 as an ultra-converged smartphone and remarks how the ultra-convergence has necessitated some compromises in this year's most desirable piece of electronics.
I remain very excited about the N95 - a great all-round device is just what I want! I expect the N95 to be as strong a communication device as the Nokia N80 (GSM, 3G, Bluetooth, WiFi etc.), but with much better multimedia capabilities (and the added benefit of GPS). Especially regarding camera performance and I am therefore very happy to read how the Martian tint of the prototype N95 images is nowhere to be found in images taken with a final production N95.
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