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NOKIA N95

Having had the phone for a good month now, finally not feel qualified to discuss the many features this phone and to build on some of the more esoteric features of this snippet kit.

Basic phone
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In short, the call quality is great, contact management is sensible, but the detailed design and menus and generally well within the vein, we expect Nokia. Battery life is very dependent on what you use your phone to do, but you can treat about 2 hours per day open up a moderate use of the application. This may improve if you dim the screen, turn off 3G but, frankly, like a magical toy that really want to do this? My advice, get a charger for work to rally at home. As I spend more thousands of minutes per month on the phone, I found myself quickly identify trouble with basic features, and thusfar have been none with the N95. Symbian element means that it is relatively easy to do fancy things like taking a photo, find a contact or calendar entry, or even connect to a page web, while calling in the middle! The screen is one of the best I've seen on a mobile device format and the phone is slightly smaller than my old N80, and very sexy (my wife, ever the style junkie agrees). In fact, age collect my N80 last night, I was not back in 5 years.

Text messaging is a predictably good, Nokia dictionary is easy to add styles to entry may be changed, the symbols (y including a new line character finally!) is inserted, so I was very impressed to see if you select the input language "French", for example, has a French dictionary associated and correctly accented letters. Perhaps this is a common feature in modern phones had never noticed.

There are also some improvements in the way of the N80, has emerged as a bit more slippery. Key lock feature is a big improvement on the previous sliders and seems to keep my phone calling friends of chance.

More advanced "basics" video calls work well, working for the first time with my wife's K800i. In fact, one of the most subtle impressions that I have since the phone is that almost everything that does simply not the first time.

The contacts are standard card support (although you still have problems of communication to receive the business card format from Sony Ericsson). All contacts are automatically a voice tag associated with them, basically, a computer voice that tries to say the name has been in contact. It is used so you can activate the voice contact without having to record sound, then attach it to a contact. Works especially well. Sometimes, if the name of your contact is especially (eg, Schleicher!) It is best to say that, phonetically, do not always have the correct pronunciation.

House
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5 megapixel a respectable resolution for a camera phone, and I think that Nokia has done well with the response to the criticism evident from mobile earlier, namely, who have self-focus (although it is slow enough to hurt), and have included a very durable cover switch (from so that its objective is not damaged). Add to that a little bit of top photo features like white balance, scene modes (portrait, etc.), the Carl Zeiss mandatory and I think they have a winner in the category of a camera phone. The flash is a waste of time, however, and the response speed between shots certainly ill at ease with all but the cheapest in the real world, digital cameras. Apparently the latest firmware improves this slightly, but overall, I think she is relegated to camera phone to be universal promote the replacement of the camera!

Video
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To be honest, I found it much more impressive as the camera and the reality is that a clip of 640×480 video at 30 frames per second makes frankly Amazing miles better video quality that video and security cameras very little worse than a digital video camera correctly. Enough for TV screen normal, and good enough to make friends gasped when I plugged mine in my game night. The sound quality of recording is also excellent, very clean and perfectly usable. I think to get a music video for fun with what I find very "mobile" camera so to the special effects should not be difficult to achieve! Fantastic.

GPS
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This feature was clearly a feature I'm most happy to get the phone. Having a sense of the passage of a dead badger, I had visions of myself my SAT-navving way through the streets of London on foot, never to lose again. I have since found that the length of time to connect to satellites (sometimes up to 10 minutes) makes it easy ad-hoc shipping short duration. Google Maps (installable app) is much better for it. Fortunately, there 2 weekends, decided to buy a kitten in reading and had the opportunity to try it in anger. My wife is a techno-skeptic and forced me to print a map of AA as well but do not stop using it. The volume on the phone was more than sufficient for audible in a car, and navigation is correct, the correct identification when he lost his way and adjust the route accordingly. There down a single failure in a roundabout (not even say that leaving aside), but may have been the fact that it was loaded dynamically map on the 3G. I would recommend downloading the maps needed for the phone.

You need the slider phone Open the GPS receiver is placed under the key "#" What is unfortunate, but no train successfully. This is probably annoying if you intend to mount this on the dashboard.

In general, except satellite a little long connection time (reminiscent of old tam-tams), the experiment was very positive and certainly won my wife. We paid £ 4.50 to get a week of sailing and activate SMS very easy. I think it's something like £ 47.50 for 3 years at sea If I had a luxury car, I definitely start. Of course, you can calculate routes and see the cards without having to pay for extended navigation features. We simply do not track and field.

The GPS itself has all the other bells and whistles, like the overview of the street, a female English voice Crisp and clear display of Nice, it works as expected. A warning receive a car charger, sucking the phone battery dry in about an hour and a half (although in my opinion, it was still pretty impressive).

Music
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Wow, another phone, MP3-playing without problem? Well, I am very appreciate, first of all that Search an online site that sold me a 2 GB card for … £ 7 (?) Amazing. It's 35-40 CD on my phone. The next step was to see how he could get music on it. I screamed with joy when I discovered Nokia supports MTP and therefore Napster. For the uninitiated, Napster has recently launched a payment service, where $ 14.95 per month you can buy a pass that allows unlimited music downloads of tracks and use them any time to continue to pay. As I am a serious music consumer, I think it's a fair price to pay (the others may disagree), and May have up to 3 mobile devices connected to Napster, which can be used "offline." They call this Napster-to-go in practice means that I can keep my Nokia garnish with a new CD to get my Fantasy, legally, for the lump sum of £ 15 per month.

The player itself is very significant because it can display a small image of the album, a graphic equalizer to adjust bass up, or knock out a song White Stripes unexpected acute does not pierce eardrums. You can create playlists of playlists, repeat and random play and even show an oscilloscope graphic visual so little that is appeal to you. There are two effects integrated "stereo widening" and "loudness" Personally, I do not think necessary, but also demonstrate that Nokia has put into this effort just over.

And the brilliantly bright sparks at Nokia has added a standard headphone jack on the phone finally can use the Bose headphones (or economic Old favorite) with the phone without having to buy any adapter. The ergonomics of the swallow is not ideal because it is on the side, but not too much trouble. The sound quality is good (although it depends on the choice of headsets, the flow MP3 bit, etc., etc.)

Menus
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Everything is customizable, from the normal Nokia menu, the menu Slidey up visuals (icons in a sort curve, with a target rotating gliding between them). The menu before a useful set of shortcuts that can start applications downloaded (as I connected to Gmail one) and generally very usable. You can also assign shortcuts to the scroll.

Refinement
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The theme of this phone, beyond all equipment technological sophistication, elegance and refinement.
In no particular order, here are some things that really impressed me.
"A magnificent charger form factor that does not interfere with the country neighbors, such as Plug Power is thick. It is tiny and mostly in silence. Some shippers and older had an almost inaudible squeak acute Inconvenient the hell out of my bionic woman.
"You can see on the menu screen, which is running in the background, as she draws a small turning circle next to the icon representing an excellent If you inadvertently let some heavy battery applications running by accident.
"A great awakening that allows you to set multiple alarms quickly and easily, let alone during the week or specific dates
-When you receive a call and your profile is to have a sound, a button appears on the screen titled "Silence" is excellent for quickly mute the phone without hanging up on the caller. So useful!
"I always hated joysticks (also known as Sony Ericsson) die quickly and become annoying. I also owned several Nokias including the N80 and 6320 (which button has a unique address that must be pressed uniformly in the registration of a "press" rather than an address "" Still I found the ergonomics Navigation directional Shakey to be a little. The N95 has a middle button (not directional) in the directional control. It works perfectly, I had no problem with that at all.
"The browser is one of the best I've used on a mobile device with a small cursor, with friendly directional pad. It is mostly well-sites and through 3G is fast enough to be really usable. I used it extensively to catch the (non-mobile) version of the BBC on the train on the job. It also has many additional features like the ability to technophiles new union play food (mainly short news stories, with the key), scroll back, running JavaScript UPS deal with pop-manage encrypted pages, etc. etc. etc.
"They have a standard mini-USB cable in it (hooray!) – We all have tons of cables standard digital camera in our homes these days, and the Nokia N95 uses one of these to connect, which means they are more related to an (expensive) cable owner, but may collect is required if you want under a fiver. In addition, if remains connected to a PC for use with another camera or MP3 player can be used as something normal with the phone. It is a surprise victory in my opinion.

Gallery
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Gallery contains a very functional program that can pass through previews of files, etc. or run a slideshow (if, for example connected to a TV) which is great. The slideshow is very Apple-Mac, that is, instead of just a static image after photo, slightly enlarged and begin to move slowly or kitchen, adding a great interest and makes it more attractive to see how he feels almost "happened". Crossfades also images that makes everything feel much more slippery. You can even play a song while the slideshow, adjust delays and in turn the zoom / pan function on or off.

Office Tools
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It allows you to view Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations, even, but of course it is debatable as to be useful when These are large documents or spreadsheets. I have not played much with this (as I am not a seller)! The phone also opens
PDF that can be useful when navigating a site that has only a PDF file you need something to read. There is also a flash player that plays the most interactive animations static, but it seems that the fox.

Useful Bits'n'bobs
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There is a great little converter unit, covering mass, weight, etc., quite usable. A "bar code" reader, but no bar code as we know, but rather "Semacode" which are a kind of matrix blocks of black and white can be found on websites, often contains a "link". It is rare, can point the phone camera to the page view, and read Semacode and indicate the direction and allow you to direct it into the phone. Not sure what it is used, but the ideas defended Semacode things like putting in a tourist area that contains a link to wikipedia information. Could be interesting but maybe a little .. I do not know anything?

Applications
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There are some fairly convincing standard application on the phone. While making this examination, I discover new things all the time on this phone.

Video Center:
For example, a service called "video center" which allows you to download video clips of some of Reuters News on your phone back and see when downloading. Video clips are little predictable, but it seems that the infrastructure of a very interesting technology.

Life-Blog:
Well, not just one App N95, I decided to start a blog to mine (mikeanddan.typepad.com) I was using a bit, for testing. The ability take a picture via 3G download directly on the blog, is frankly astonishing. If I was addicted to Twitter, I suppose I could blog every message I sent (for Lifeblog keeps a list of everything you've done on the phone one day and you can transfer these interviews, texts, images, etc. as you go), but I think the worldly element prevents me … still very much in theory. A major drawback is that tinkering too much time with this type of application, inevitably means that when the dance is spontaneous surprise Morris, or someone with a ridiculous hat, its battery is discharged before you click "upload". Perhaps better from a legal perspective anyway Ahem.

Radio:
A very Radio decent (which, unfortunately, needs headphones plugged in for the reception, but it downloads all the settings for the radio stations local, so no tuning or other nonsense, everything is automatic (although you can manually adjustable, if desired).

Games:
Probably the least exciting world of Snake 3D demo called SRE, which is very attractive in 3D, but usually not reproducible and heavy, fortunately there are plenty of other Things on the N95 to entertain and I'd say it's fairly easy to download games or N95 via catalog or on the web in general.

Also, I managed to load the proprietary applications, such as Google mail, fring (Skype essentially mobile, and lets you make calls over the wireless connection!), a Business card reader (take a photo of a business card and the application reads all the details and made a contact in 1 easy step!) and I had no problem – it really feels that the phone has matured this young girl.

Connectivity
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UMTS, GSM, WiFi, Bluetooth, which everything, even if most of those who use, the faster they lose their autonomy. Wi-Fi works very well and have a WiFi connection at home, checking Gmail, for example, is often easier with the phone to turn on a computer, logging into the phone, etc. etc. WiFi love, and makes web browsing or Internet application allowed a breeze to use networks for early detection and easy.

You can also connect to a PC via a USB cable, as mentioned above, and also allows Transfer music, backup / restore, use the phone as a modem if you're racing with a laptop outside (although Bluetooth is better!) Using the phone memory and storage Mass aka USB key.

Nokia Software
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Man, this software has come a long way, Gone are the days of clumsy interfaces, the date and the options that operate intermittently, the upgrade, even the firmware of the phone (something I did last night) job The first well with the conservation status of all the details of my first phone and restore later (though I realize that I lost the applications it was installed, but not much). Firmware Update for the uninitiated basically means reloading the phone software as well for those who fear that phones with errors, be calm, make updates to Nokia reasonable frequency to fix bugs, and you can now completely made days Phone Home (ser centers independently and sit with courteousy cell more!).

Conclusion
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Even my wife techno-skeptic is impressed by the variety of things, this phone can do, and I was surprised more than one opportunity to discover a new feature. In general, with the sole exception of the battery, I was happy with the phone, and I tested for rabies at least 90% of functions, and have not yet found something that does not work as expected, the box. Add to that a memory card 2 GB (although I heard 4GB is available now and works with the phone, but a lot heavier) and I think you will agree the phone is a real winner. Without doubt the best phone I've ever had a margin very long!

Friends in the picture with digital frame