I got my hands on a Nokia N95 so I can play with it over the weekend. It turned out that I don't like it, here is why.
First, I really don't like moving parts on any mobile device. Because these will either break or will allow dust to get into the phone. Second, I tried to surf the web using wireless (WiFi) this was a really bad experience. It took 15 minutes until it finally connected to my WPA-PSK network (the router was about 2 meters away from the phone). Also the user interface for this kind of sucked (this was the first time for me using a Symbian device that has WiFi). The web browser seems fast, but the website don't look good at all. It is like I remember web surfing on a mobile phone a few years ago. Not having a touchscreen doesn't help either (navigating with the 4-way button isn't fun).
I don't care about having a camera in my phone, but this one is soo big. I really think the camera makes the phone 3-4 millimeters thinker. This is stupid.
Some good stuff: USB and stereo jack (I like standard connectors).
Lets hope there will be a new phone with all these (impressive) hardware features but without the moving screen and buttons. Instead reduce the number of hardware buttons give it a bigger screen and use a touchscreen. Making it thiner would also help.
Just my 2 cents...
Chris wrote
So is there any mobile phone you could recommend for surfing and phoning? Until now my experience is that you need two devices to do both without trade-off.
Collin wrote
No not really, portable/mobile surfing for now will be compare to the N770 or the N800. It needs to be equal or better to get me interested.
Joe wrote
Nokias messes the whole wifi-configuration up. It's totally confusing and i need about 1 week to figure out how the defined accesspoint can keep the wifi-key w/ my E61..
Chris wrote
That's interesting. So the solution will be surfing with the notebook and phoning with the phone :-)
Collin wrote
Collin wrote
no I totally digg my N770/N800 it is perfect for surfing while you're on the go (tm) I really carry it around in my bag every day and use it quite a lot. WiFi is available everywhere for free so I don't need the integration in the phone.
Chris wrote
OK, thats good to hear.
notpeter wrote
Also did you know that the stereo jack also has video (TV) out as well...questionable utility, but cool none the less. I also have a S60v3 phone (E70) and agree that the access point selection interface sucks...but having Python on device makes up for that somehow. I rarely use my E70 browser now and definitely prefer the 770 one. If only I could use the E70 qwerty keyboard with my 770...
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