Name: Daniel G. Lebryk
Location:
Date: 2008-01-30
Customer Rating: -
Summary: Wow
Comment: This is an amazing...digital camera....video recorder....GPS....portable internet browser....music player....and Oh it's a cell phone too! This phone does a lot of things and does most of them very well. My wife has joked with me, I needed a Nokia pHD to use this phone. The manual is thick, and you pretty much need to read it to learn how to use this phone. The funny part on this phone, there's a ton of pages on applications, the cameras, the browser, the GPS, the music player, and the excellent contact management. But there's nothing, absolutely nothing in it on how to use predictive text... what a strange thing left out.
I've used this phone for over a month now and really do love it. The 3G connection is fantastic, it works fabulously well and very fast. WiFi is simple fast and easy to use. There's actually 3 different GPS programs, frankly the Yahoo maps one works and looks the best. Pictures are sharp, easy to take, excellent. The videos are very nice, good solid large on a computer with no pixellation. The browser works amazingly well. The music player is just wonderful.
So what's not to like?
1) It's not intuitive to use. On the GPS, to get the GPS to follow along on the map, you have to press the 0 key. That would be a function not documented anywhere. I still can't figure out why my pictures and videos are stored in the Image Gallery, and the videos I download are stored in the Video Center. Menus are buried in funny places. I can't figure out how to quickly change the ring volume, or silence it. The volume key seems to have a mind of it's own, sometimes it changes the volume in the application, sometimes it does nothing.
2) The camera - overall very good. Well no spectacular for a cell phone. It is slow to start up, it's slow to actually focus, and once you've taken a picture, it's kind of slow to be ready to take another picture. The flash - well it is effective from about 6 inches to maybe 2 or 3 feet. But, I have a 5 MegaPixel camera in my pocket all the time. That's something amazing.
3) The GPS - it's needlessly complex. Like I said there are actually 3 applications to use the GPS. Nokia Maps, an application that takes an eternity to start up. Middling performance. A Maps function buried deep in a menu someplace - it's sort of you on a map with not much else to offer. And then Yahoo Maps - this is well near incredible. Satellite imagery on a moving map, so how cool is that. Navagation is not bad with Yahoo and Nokia Maps. I tried the 3 day (get that 3 days only) trial of voice navagation, definately not worth the price. In a pinch, this thing works rather well. Oh, satellite connection, it takes a very long time. Relax.
4) The music player. When you use audiophile grade headphones (shure e3c), there is a definate hiss in the background. I've actually never heard this in any device before - iPod, portable DVD players, tape players, CD players. It just basically sounds like they used a very cheap op amp to power the headphone jack. Otherwise the player works very well. It's like all the others out there.
5) Syncing or moving things from a computer to the phone. You cannot just drop images, sound files, videos, etc. into the proper directory on the MicroSD card. The software actually has to insert it, otherwise you never see any of those files. PC Suite works just fine. But it's not exactly computer savvy friendly at all. LifeBlog is just plain weird. It records everything you do, pictures and videos taken, text messages sent, etc. and then puts those on a timeline on your computer. Be aware, the files get stored with a serial number, and they are very hard to figure outside LifeBlog. It's all very strange.
So the good stuff - it's a solid phone. Sound on phone calls is excellent. The phone book is just outstanding. The screen is gorgeous. You can actually read the screen in bright direct sunlight. I love reading the New York Times on this phone. The browser is wonderful. The number pad is perfect even with my large hands. Very quickly I got used to the navagation buttons - direction, select, back/cancel, accept... all work really well. It's a dream.
Name: Francisco Vallecillo
Location: Central America
Date: 2008-03-01
Customer Rating: -
Summary: Excellent Phone!
Comment: I received the exact phone I order, I checked the security lens of the camera and it is the model N95-3 bronze color. It is an excellent phone.
Name: tyrod
Location: St. Louis, Mo
Date: 2008-03-30
Customer Rating: -
Summary: The holy grail of multi-tasking phones
Comment: Paid $499.99 from Amazon
Use AT&T service but not the 3G data (yet).
Everything that it does meet or exceeded my expectations. The only thing I have not really seen the use for is the bar code scanning function and I did not realize that function was in the phone until after I bought it.
I am always using the camera, video recorder, GPS, media player and the web browser with total satisfaction. I have plenty of room since I am using a 6 gb card. I have a Canon S70 camera that it rivals in picture quality.
Some of the reviews nit-pick the many functions of N95 and I can say that a few functions do not quite match independent devices that do only the one they were made for such as the GPS, but it is totally useful. Battery life is not an issue with me at all. Yes , the juice gets used more rapidly when using features other than just talking on the phone, but I expected that and easily and conveniently deal with it. In prospective, having the all the features of the N95 in such a small package that functions at such a high level makes it better than 5 star.
Name: pootriarche
Location: San Francisco
Date: 2008-02-19
Customer Rating: -
Summary: I got the right one...
Comment: I ordered this product and got exactly what was advertised, an N95-3 in bronze. Not sure what happened with the other reviewers.
Name: Robert J. Atencio
Location:
Date: 2008-04-27
Customer Rating: -
Summary: NOKIA N95
Comment: this fone is great with everything...its a fone everyone wants but there are a couple down sides.the time it takes for the camera is too slow..the reaction time is slow tooo when switching the screens.overall this is a great fone but i think the new N96 will be much better.
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