I Can’t Resist It - I’m Getting A Nokia N95
Although I still have my reservations about the battery (it is a bit worrying though that Vodafone are even throwing in a free car charger!) and the speed of the Nokia N95, I’ve decided that I that I’m definitely going to upgrade my Nokia N80.
The main reason I’ve decided to bite the bullet and do the upgrade is that the Nokia N95 will allow me to ditch so many devices from my gadget bag. In fact I’ll be ditching the gadget bag altogether and I’ll just put the Nokia N95 in my pocket.
If you’re looking for more info then check out this Nokia N95 photo review from Gizmodo.
Although I bought a Dell X51V because of the frustrations I had with my Nokia N80, it’s proven to be a bad purchase. I’d forgotten how annoying I’d found using a stylus with my Sony Ericsson P900, and I hardly ever use the X51V now relying on the N80. The problem with a stylus is it makes text entry and navigation too difficult and two hands are always needed for every function. As soon as my Nokia N95 arrives the Axim X51V will be going on eBay. I’ll also be selling my TomTom Navigator GPS system as the Nokia N95 has built-in GPS.
I’ll also be able to use the Nokia N95 as my daily MP3 player for the commute on the tube to work, but I’ll keep my 5G Video iPod for the car, gym and travelling. I’ll also keep my Vivitar Digital Camera for travelling and special occasions, but the 5MP camera on the N95 will look after the rest.
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Comment by Zath on 9 April 2007:
You certainly put a good argument over for getting it Everton and if I had the need for all the features I’d probably go for one with a view to replace all those separate gadgets.
I look forward to reading how you get on with it, especially with the battery life aspect, please keep us updated!
Comment by Slim Shady on 16 April 2007:
I installed TomTom6 onto a friends N95 last night.
IT DOESNT WORK YET. Even though the N95 has a built in GPS, TT doesnt yet work with it.
So hold on to thos other gadgets for a bit longer.
Comment by Everton on 16 April 2007:
Why would you want to use Tom Tom? Why don’t you use Nokia Maps and the GPS Mapping programs? I guess the Tom Tom is a better option for Voice-guided navigation.
Mine arrives tomorrow and I’m putting my N80, Dell Axim X51V and Tom Tom on eBay. I’m going to keep the iPod though as I need it for the car and the big HDD for when I’m travelling.
Comment by Jay on 23 May 2007:
Don’t you have to pay a subscription for Nokia Maps?? What other GPS mapping programs can you use for free on the N95 using the internal GPS receiver??
Comment by Everton on 23 May 2007:
The GPS is the only N95 feature that has disappointed me. I’m going to do a post tonight with a bit more detail, but lets just say I’ve paid for my subscription to the maps and I’m going to try and get a refund as the service just doesn’t work.
Comment by Zath on 23 May 2007:
Sorry to hear that Everton, that was one of the features that really tempted me to get (before i stuck with the Windows Mobile route and went for the E650).
How does the battery handle day-to-day use now?
Comment by Everton on 23 May 2007:
I’m getting about 30 hours out of the battery which I’m happy with as that includes 90 mins a day playing music on the tube, lots of calls, emails and browsing during the day at work. I don’t use the Wi-Fi (don’t bother as got unlimited data now with T-Mobile) or camera though, and of course the GPS.
Comment by matt2020 on 20 March 2008:
I was looking into purchasing a N95 8Gb or perhaps the N96 16Gb.
I do fair bit of traveling and I am interested in photography so the GPS function looked really attractive. (I want to know where I am in strange cities and want to geotag images down the track.)
I looked on the nokia website on map coverage (http://europe.nokia.com/A4513026) and see a very long list of countries. However it turns out according to the Nokia shop that many of these countries re not available at all.
e.g. Vietnam and all the maps listed below were not available on the maploader. The tech people in the Nokia shop said that they were also surprised when they discovered this major difference between what has been advertised as available and what is actually available. Is this a massive
case of false advertising by Nokia or is there some other explanation?
The maps below were listed as “non-naviagable” which means the software won’t tell you how to get from A to B. That is fine for me as I only need to know where I am. (Actually the website has changed and the “Non-Navigable” heading removed, implying all the maps are navigable, which is doubtful?)
So unless I and the Nokia shop people are mistaken, the map coverage may be substantially less than advertised.
Anyone with any experience of using non-navigable maps in the regions listed?
Some of the Countries Listed
Afghanistan,Armenia,Azerbaijan,Bangladesh,Bhutan,Brunei,
Darussalam,Cambodia,Cyprus,North Korea,India,Indonesia,
Iran,Iraq,Israel,Japan,Jordan,Kazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan,Laos,
Lebanon,Macau,Mongolia,Myanmar,Nepal,Palestine,Oman,Pakistan
Philippines,Qatar,Sri Lanka,Syria,Taiwan,Tajikistan,Thailand
East-Timor,Turkey (part of which is not covered by the navigable map),Turkmenistan,Uzbekistan,Vietnam, Yemen
etc (more countries listed)
Respectable well founded companies do not have to resort to false advertising to make sales. So unless Nokia are in some sort of financial trouble I can barely believe they would resort to false advertising of map coverage to sell GPS phones.