Nokia N95 Review: Best Smartphone Ever

Everton | Apr 08, 2007 | Comments


MobileBurn have written a massive review of the Nokia N95 spanning 12 pages. It’s an interesting review and goes through all of the amazing capabilities of the Nokia N95. It’s a long read so I’ll jump straight to the summary:

Nokia N95

But the reality of the situation is that the N95 is a brilliantly conceived mobile phone that is nearly crippled by its battery life. A device such as this begs to be used, but the battery is not even remotely close to being up to the task. If it weren’t for the fact that the N95 does almost everything not only well, but superbly, the battery life would be an instant deal breaker. But due to its near other-worldly capabilities, I feel it deserves some leeway, and as such I still give it a “Recommended” rating. If the battery issue didn’t exist, I would probably have considered the N95 to be the best non-QWERTY smart phone ever developed to date.

Despite the recommendation, I’m still in two minds about whether or not to get a Nokia N95 to replace my Nokia N80. I like the idea of having a a smartphone that can do every task I can imagine, but not one that I have to charge every 3-4 hours.

I’ll guess I’ll have to see what my alternatives are whenever the N95 finally becomes available in the UK.


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  • A few months ago I was looking forward to this phone being released to replace my 2.5yr old Orange C500, but in the mean time the new HTC Vox mobile has caught my eye. Now having read that review - the N95 does sound great, but the battery life would still be a deal-breaker for me.

    I can now wait the couple of weeks till the Vox is released in this country in the form of the Orange E650 - it hasn't got GPS (which I can live without for now), but it does have a cool sliding out QWERTY keyboard!
  • The E650 would be a good candidate for me as well, but I need 3G - I can't imagine what it would be like to go back to GPRS
  • Fair point, I'm not a huge user of the Internet when out and about, but would be looking to try and use Wifi where possible with the GPRS as backup - plus I doubt the area I live in has even been mentioned in 3G roll-outs!
  • This is the major problem with most of the smart phones coming along. I bought N72 week back. What i was surprised to find was it uses the same kind of battery my other nokia phone was using. Resulting I cant listen to music or any multimedia that long.

    This is the major drawback for early upcoming smart phones.
  • i think it's a great phone but what's the point replacing a barely used n80? we do have an environment to care for, you know!
  • i think it’s a great phone but what’s the point replacing a barely used n80? we do have an environment to care for, you know!


    I'll make sure that eBay finds it a good home!
  • lewis
    shut up
  • Stacey
    i think that this phone is the best phone that i have seen yet and i am defently thinkin bout gettin it..x
  • tarsand
    I am buying it.. battery life problems are way out of proportion. It is only a porblem
    if you want to GPS, listen to music and use phone all at the same time. Even then
    you will have 4-5 hours to do that. Just to use phone and songs, you get all day+ some.
  • Agreed tarsand - I'm getting an average of 1.5 days charge out of mine which is more than enough
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