Nokia n95 mobile phones

The Nokia N95, the flagship smartphone from Nokia and one of their most successful handset to date has been around for quite some time. It even spawned two newer version to accommodate user preference, its big brother, the N95 8GB and the N95-3, which adds 3G support for North America.

The N95 runs on Nokia’s proprietary operating software (well at least majority of it is owned by Nokia) Symbian OS v9.2. It is the first mobile phone on the European market to offer a 5-megapixel resolution built-in camera. Of course now we have Sony Ericsson and Samsung offering that, but the N95 was the one to raise the bar up a notch. We say that cause the N95 didn’t just offer a 5-megapixel camera, it also packed in a Carl Zeiss lens, automatic focus, and detailed user-configurable settings. Of course, we are not saying that the N95 is the best camera phone there is - far from it. With the camera phone competition going on between mobile companies, its still a long way to declare an absolute winner.To start, the N95’s camera is located at the rear, as mostly all camera phones do. A welcome addition to this is the tiny covering that protects its lens that you can easily open with an easy slide.

Both activation and deactivation of the camera application is accompanied by gradual lighting up of the side functional keys backlighting, just like in Nokia N73. On the right side, under your right pointing finger you will find a large release button; right next to it is an instant-access key to the Gallery; there is also a dual zoom key located under your left finger. To sum up, taking pictures with the phone is as natural as with your common digital camera.At the front, you will see another camera designed for video calls. However, it can only do images of up to 640 × 480 pixels and is not that powerful as the camera at the back.The camera is also equipped with a flash. It’s not a xenon flash as what the Sony Ericsson K850i or the Samsung G800 or even the Nokia N82 has, but maybe Nokia will release another version of this baby and offer that functionality as well.

As this is a camera phone, Nokia gives users the ability to change its settings for optimum image quality. This includes a shooting mode that would help the camera focus and provide exposure setup. There is the flash and the self-timer setting where you can turn it off or specify a time delay. Then there is the sequence mode, exposure compensation, white balance, color nuance, light sensitivity, contrast, sharpness and zoom. That is quite a lot for a camera phone.

As we mentioned earlier, the N95 is not the best camera phone out there. That title is still to be decided as newer models are coming in every now and then. However, we can never deny the picture quality of the N95. The images it creates maintain their sharpness throughout the entire frame. Higher resolution allow for printing on bigger formats as well as for creating crops.Apparently the most significant disadvantage of Nokia N95’s pictures is their cold touch, which frequently results in a light violet shade. This drawback is best visible in pictures taken shortly before sunset.

Nokia N95 does not feature any special white balance option to make colors look more natural. Whatsoever, its images do not look bad at all; besides, any inaccuracies could be easily eliminated with some editing program on a PC.

The Nokia N95 was first released last year and was given rave reviews by many a mobile phone enthusiast, so the news that a new 8GB model was to be released got a lot of people very excited. The first obvious change present in the N95 8GB is the colour of the external casing, the original model was released in silver and plum editions but the 8GB version is presented in a matt black finish, bundled with the handset is the Spiderman 3 movie where the evil, out of space black alien takes over Spiderman and turns his super hero suit to black so the phone and the movie go hand in hand, clever marketing Nokia.

The next big change on the new model is that the main display screen has been enlarged from 2.6 to 2.8 inches, that may not sound like a major change but it allows for bigger text for those with poor eyesight as well as enhancing the experience whilst watching movies and videos on the handset.

One thing that any original Nokia N95 user will appreciate is that the new 8GB edition has an increased battery life, this was one of the main problems aired by users and it seems that the manufacturer has listened to their woes. The longer battery life meant that the battery itself had to be bigger and so the rear of the handset has had to be redesigned to incorporate the extra space.The new N95 8GB features the same high specification 5.0 megapixel camera with digital zoom, flash, video record facility and Carl Zeiss optics but now adds a new lens cover for protecting the lens whilst not in use.Another gripe of the original N95 users was that when the handset was in the slide position exposing th dedicated media keys, because of their close proximity to the main bulk of the phone they found it difficult to access them and sometimes ended up pressing more than one button at a time. Nokia have fixed this problem by actually raising the keys so that even in poor light conditions the user can still locate the buttons with their digits.Another enhancement is the introduction of N-gage gaming, first seen in the original N-Gage mobile phone, with superb features, amazing graphics and top of the range games specifically designed for advanced mobile devices the handset can be used in the landscape position and the main controls buttons used as a D-pad for game play.

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Europe UK : This week Nokia announced that the N95 handset, noted for its next-generation services including GPS, has sold a million units. This amounts to a significant success for a Smartphone in the UK market.

AppTrigger, the application connectivity specialist, notes how the success of advanced devices is predicated by some extent on the services those devices bring to the consumer. To capitalise on these high-end consumers, operators must be in a position to fully leverage their network investments by connecting next-generation services quickly and cost effectively.

Paul Cronin, head of EMEA for AppTrigger comments: “For mobile operators today, it is no longer about finding the ‘killer app’ – it’s now about the ‘killer environment’. The N95 Nokia brings a rich set of features and advanced services to business users and high-end consumer markets. This demonstrates a trend: users are becoming savvier about advanced handsets and the iPhone should only increase this movement.

“To capitalise on this marketshare by delivering the killer environment to them, mobile operators need to be able to push advanced services quickly and raise ARPU in turn. For operators, connecting applications to their next-generation networks is at the heart of this.

“At present operators are plagued by connectivity issues. It can take between 18 – 20 months to connect applications when migrating to advanced networks. Also application developers are often in charge of connecting applications, which is like asking a roofer to work on the plumbing in your house.

“Ironically the promise of next-generation networks, such as IMS, is about driving more applications like location-based services through phones like the N95. But connecting these applications through the traditional soft-switching/media gateway methods can take an operator months or years and cost $10 – $15 million per application. Clearly a new, quicker business model is needed – without being hampered by this arcane way of connecting applications. Keeping applications immune from the evolving network layer is the way forward to obtaining this killer environment.”