Nokia N95 review
How on earth can you jam this many features into a phone this size? No matter, Nokia have managed to cram a 5-megapixel camera which is capable of recording VGA-quality video, a solid little media player with a 3.5mm headphone jack, a dual-slider design, and integrated GPS, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth into a phone that is less than 4 inches long and weighs only 4.2 ounces.
It’s not a bad looking phone, but it’s a little clunky compared to some of the competition, and $750 is an awful lot of money for a phone.
Price aside, the N95’s camera is one of the best phone cameras around at the moment, and the rest of the design is reasonably well put together. The GPS receiver comes with built in mapping, but if you want detailed directions, you can expect to pay another $12 a month or $92 a year.
All in all an expensive package. Well designed, well built, but, I feel, let down by the battery life and the operating speed. Something has to give when you try and jam this much into a package this size and these are the weak spots. According to Nokia, the N95 is rated for nine days of standby time, but all those features just suck the life right out of it, so don’t expect more than a day or two. Full specs can be seen here, and here is an interesting video of the GPS in operation.
