Plannin to buy N95 · DIGIT-ARC

Guys, I am planning to buy nokia N95.

I need your suggestions regarding my purchase.

I dont have any specific requirements just I need performance in every area.

nice plan

pathiks said:
nice plan

hey hey....going for this phone next weekend.... just wants suggestions...

wat suggestions do u need ??? Its a perfect fone.. Nice in evy aspect.. The os, the cam,the music evything rocks..

F

Man, I want a N95 so badly ...

Ugh, I wouldn't touch it with a ten yard stick.

A

aryayush said:
Ugh, I wouldn't touch it with a ten yard stick.

LOL. Blackberry has better models. this one is like a brick

pathiks said:
wat suggestions do u need ??? Its a perfect fone.. Nice in evy aspect.. The os, the cam,the music evything rocks..

Suggestions in the sense weather my purchasing is ok or should I wait for some more time or should I go for any other phone.

Since you only want a truckload of features (which isn't the right thing to look for), I suppose the N95 is your best bet.

excellent plan dude ..... go for it its ultimate.....

K

You don't need suggestions to buy N95. Just money. Its perfect. Go for it.

Excellent Plannnnnnnnnnn

You will get at cost around 40k

Check this site :

*www.mobile-review.com/phonemodels/nokia/nokia-n95-en.shtml

its arnd 30k at alfa..

pathiks said:
its arnd 30k at alfa..

with bill or without bill ??

^^widout bill off-course

yea.. With bill its 34k perhaps..

D

dunno yaar.. i just think this phone is a little too over hyped.. i'd wait for the prices to come down a bit.. i mean is it really worth 34k? but i guess u cant put a price on show-offs now can u?

The phone is priced at 33k with bill.

For all the people who are little apprehensive about the price, first should take a look at the features.

It is currently the most feature rich phone, atleast from Nokia, and also in India.

*S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1
*GPS (It has an inbuilt GPS, a feature which most people in india wont be making much use of, but that is your mistake.)
*3.5G ( 10 Times faster than 3G, but not yet of any use in India).
*Dual CPU (332 MHz;3D Graphics HW Accelerator)
*HSDPA; WCDMA; EGPRS; GPRS; HSCSD; CSD ( I agree they are there in most of the phones, but HSDPA and WCDMA are high end)
*Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR
*Mini Stereo Plug 3.5mm (This phone has a direct socket for 3.5mm audio plugs, so you can now directly plugin you speakers for awsome music)
*Nokia Audio Visual Plug 3.5mm
*It has support for Wifi and also Voip
*A2DP, AVRCP, BIP, BPP, DUN, FTP, GAVDP, GOEP, HFP, HSP, OPP, SAP Bluetooth profiles
*5MP Primary camera as well as a secondary camera
*TV Out

With all these features, it is bound to cost this much, still what is surprising that N93 was near about the same cost one time, so you cant say that this is hell expensive.

@aryayush
Truckloads of excellent and top end features are a nice lookout, i guess

One Major downpoint - PLASTIC FINISH

K

You forgot UPnP support, VGA video recording at 30 fps, two way sliding with dedicated music keys, 2.6" QVGA 16.77 million colour display, stereo speakers, and inbox 1gb card (upto 2gb supported). Did i mention its from Nokia?

D

alsiladka said:
The phone is priced at 33k with bill.

For all the people who are little apprehensive about the price, first should take a look at the features.

It is currently the most feature rich phone, atleast from Nokia, and also in India.

*S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1
*GPS (It has an inbuilt GPS, a feature which most people in india wont be making much use of, but that is your mistake.)
*3.5G ( 10 Times faster than 3G, but not yet of any use in India).
*Dual CPU (332 MHz;3D Graphics HW Accelerator)
*HSDPA; WCDMA; EGPRS; GPRS; HSCSD; CSD ( I agree they are there in most of the phones, but HSDPA and WCDMA are high end)
*Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR
*Mini Stereo Plug 3.5mm (This phone has a direct socket for 3.5mm audio plugs, so you can now directly plugin you speakers for awsome music)
*Nokia Audio Visual Plug 3.5mm
*It has support for Wifi and also Voip
*A2DP, AVRCP, BIP, BPP, DUN, FTP, GAVDP, GOEP, HFP, HSP, OPP, SAP Bluetooth profiles
*5MP Primary camera as well as a secondary camera
*TV Out

With all these features, it is bound to cost this much, still what is surprising that N93 was near about the same cost one time, so you cant say that this is hell expensive.

@aryayush
Truckloads of excellent and top end features are a nice lookout, i guess

One Major downpoint - PLASTIC FINISH

damn! 33k is a good bet!!

Guys, obviously it's plastic to make it lighter

and i like the plastic look... it doesnt, at all look cheap..

K

And you can't have metal in a phone which is crammed with so many radio devices in it (calls, gprs, bluetooth, wi-fi, gps, fm). It'll obstruct its functionality.

^^ now krazy that s not true...

there are many fones wit these features but they ahv a metal body...
the main thing is that they may hav wanted to make it lighter... and make it appeal to some ppl like me...

^^^ yeah, metals haf greater permittivity than plastics..... plus the body is isolated. so it may actually aid the operation. but it makes them heavier.

K

iPhone has better looks i think .
i hate nokia , i love apple and Sony .

Does n95 has Touchscreen B-)

N800 is Better . it is best phone i'd say

man n800 is just an internet tablet... while n95 is a full on multimedia device... it can do evything...
also n800 has a linux os which means availability of apps ll be a problem...
whereas n95 is os9.2fp1..

btw the link u gave is of an ad on the page u intended to give...

K

Metal does not aid permittivity of radio frequencies. It obstructs it. Check out all the phones which have metal in their bodies (6300,8800, N91, E50, etc.) They do not have metal in their top of their back sides (since thats where the antenna is). My sister had a 3220 which supported cut-out covers at back, but nokia mentioned it in their user guide that the cut-out covers should not have metal particles in them, as they could obstruct the working of the antenna, reducing call quality, network reception and increasing battery consumption. In case of N95, the phone has 6 radio units positioned god knows where inside that compact body. So if metal was used anywhere, it might obstruct the working of one of the radio units. Tell me, have you guys ever seen a gps unit with metal on it?

man.. How i wish i had paid attention in class..

At last,I got my N95 today for 34.8K,plenty of features,need some time to familiarise!

one thing is sure!

Gr8 cam,no doubt!

K

^^ Congrats!!!

man u rock.. Congrats.. U hav the best cellfone on digit forum..

... for a few months...

Yeah some one will soon get E90 communicator or the HTC Advantage

... or the iPhone.

iphone is not legally coming to Asia anytime soon leave alone India. So I do not think it should be procurable soon

New units will be Cingular locked AFAIK and if its lock can be cracked so fast, so much for MacOS being the most secure OS in the world. iPhone has a strpped down OSX na!!!!

^^ dont say stripped down.. Say optimised 4 mobile fones.. Btw only the e90 can pose a threat to the best fone status of n95 in the near future.. iPhone is way behind it.. Only the ui and music of iPhone can better those of n95.. Maybe..

I dont think iPhone UI will go better than most of the phones in the market at present.
And unless Apple decides to release iPhone MacOSX API to the developers, it shall be a feature restricted phone.

E90 is really awsome man, it is gonna be even more expensive then N95. Two fully functional keypads and Screens!!!!
It is one hellofa phone.

Congrats on your N95.

well i really like multitouch.. And u r rite.. The closed approach of apple may doom the iPhone.. Availability of 3rd party softs can make or break a fone..

IPHONE WILL HAVE THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE.

Do I have to ascend Mount Everest and shout it from there to make you guys hear it?

kumarmohit said:
iphone is not legally coming to Asia anytime soon leave alone India.

Asia = India. The day it will come to Asia, it will be available at your nearest Apple Store.

kumarmohit said:
New units will be Cingular locked AFAIK and if its lock can be cracked so fast, so much for MacOS being the most secure OS in the world.

Do you have any idea what you are saying? How did you somehow drag the Mac OS into the issue? :lol:

^^Availability in Asia may not always be equal to availability in India. There are N number of thing available in Japan (which is in Asia) which are not available in India (again an Asian country). Even if it does come to rest of Asia and India the same day, that is still going to be in 2008 not in a few months as you said in reply 35.

Naturally I do have some idea of what I am saying. I hope that I am correct in thinking that iPhone will run a stripped down or as Pathiks said Optimised for mobile phone should be the first point of interaction for a user, if it fails to prevent the cracking of sim lock, well the lesser said the better.

I am not saying if iPhone is good or bad, I am just saying that as long as and even after it does come to India, will be be very popular among the common Indian. indians are just getting used to Symbian bro, it will be hard to make a switch so soon and moreover, how many of the Indian Janta would be even aware of something as iPhone when they do not even know wat an iMac is

Talking about this forum, I see that more people still prefer stand alone Media Players and Se/Nokia phones (purely my observation)

kumarmohit said:
^^Availability in Asia may not always be equal to availability in India. There are N number of thing available in Japan (which is in Asia) which are not available in India (again an Asian country). Even if it does come to rest of Asia and India the same day, that is still going to be in 2008 not in a few months as you said in reply 35.

2008 is a "few months" away.

kumarmohit said:
Naturally I do have some idea of what I am saying. I hope that I am correct in thinking that iPhone will run a stripped down or as Pathiks said Optimised for mobile phone should be the first point of interaction for a user, if it fails to prevent the cracking of sim lock, well the lesser said the better.

I still fail to see how it would reflect on the security of the Mac OS.

kumarmohit said:
I am not saying if iPhone is good or bad, I am just saying that as long as and even after it does come to India, will be be very popular among the common Indian. indians are just getting used to Symbian bro, it will be hard to make a switch so soon and moreover, how many of the Indian Janta would be even aware of something as iPhone when they do not even know wat an iMac is

I thought so too. Seriously. I was actually very pleased that people won't know much about it since it an Apple product and I would be very unique when I finally own it. But that's not the case. Almost everyone knows about it. My brother, who has no idea what Macs are or that iPod is only made by Apple (he thinks all music players are iPods), knows about the iPhone. And I didn't tell him. He did not even know about Apple before the iPhone. It depends, you see. People did not know Apple at all when they just had Macs in their line-up. Then came the iPod and a fair amount of people came to know about Apple and Macs. Now that they have launched a mobile phone, a product that has a worldwide market of one billion, they are going to get a lot more visibility. People know that there's a new entrant in the mobile phone arena. Specially in India, people do know, and care about, what is the latest in mobile phones and all.

R

Isnit N95 A little to expensivE?..

Chk out the cloned Version!.. lol..

All same features..
*www.mysticgadgets.com/the-nokia-n95-gets-cloned/

I also want to buy this handset but afraid of theifs and friends both r same actually anyone can steal , its damn costly

^^ thats a foolish reason yaar...
So u wont take any costly thing wit ur hard earned money (or dad's) in the fear that it ll be stolen???

aryayush said:
IPHONE WILL HAVE THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE.

Do I have to ascend Mount Everest and shout it from there to make you guys hear it?

Can you give sourced to support your claim?
Dont bash me up, but this point is still mysterious. As up till, January, iPhone was supposed to be closed OS and no 3rd party support was going to be offered for applications, mind you applications, not accessories.

Apple had recieved a lot of criticism for this, and even online petitions were started by enthusiasts to force apple to support 3rd party applications on iPhone.

Then came the news that a game, on of poker, on Apples site promises compatibility with iPhone. But mysteriously, after some time, the iPhone support clause was deleted.

It would be better if you show up sources for you claim, in a quick glance over the web, this all was revealed to me.

K

The first major firmware update is now online for production N95 via Nokia Software Updater, v11.0.026. Its a 113 mb(!) download.

alsiladka said:
Can you give sourced to support your claim?
Dont bash me up, but this point is still mysterious. As up till, January, iPhone was supposed to be closed OS and no 3rd party support was going to be offered for applications, mind you applications, not accessories.

Apple had recieved a lot of criticism for this, and even online petitions were started by enthusiasts to force apple to support 3rd party applications on iPhone.

Then came the news that a game, on of poker, on Apples site promises compatibility with iPhone. But mysteriously, after some time, the iPhone support clause was deleted.

It would be better if you show up sources for you claim, in a quick glance over the web, this all was revealed to me.

Steve Jobs, in an interview with NewsWeek, had this to say about the rumours that were floating around saying that there would be no third party software for the iPhone:

That doesn't mean there's not going to be software to buy that you can load on them coming from us. It doesn't mean we have to write it all, but it means it has to be more of a controlled environment.

And in the recently held conference to declare the quarterly financial reports, the company declared that they will be releasing free software for both the iPhone and Apple TV.

Rest assured, there will be third party software for the iPhone and a lot of it will be free too (and you can always pirate the rest, if you are inclined to do so).

krazyfrog said:
The first major firmware update is now online for production N95 via Nokia Software Updater, v11.0.026. Its a 113 mb(!) download.

When I connected my N95 using NSU v1.3.60en,it says current FW is v10.0.018.

But NOkia news say:
"Version 11.0.026
17-04-2007
RM-159

This firmware is currently on restricted availability - not all regions / product codes will have an update yet."

Do you have any link for download? Plz share!

nope.. Maybe that firmware has not been released 4 asia.. Dont worry it ll come soon.. Dont try to change ur pid and install firmware.. Its warranty ll be void.. Go easy on ur fone..

U r right,thank you friend!

Friend i don know u bought or not.. if u haven't here is a suggestion.. see the display first.. all who has given there opinion don know they have seen the display or not..
I have seen and was not satisfied as the pixels were big like n73 and not crispy like n80.. just check before taking.
Note: Nokia never makes any phone without any flaw!
This was the first 16million color display.. if you like n93i go for it.Its also having 16million color display. its display was real awesome and same range..But again in look point of view n95 rocks..

Better put your hand on them and decide.

Also because n-series have lots of features and u can update firmware and so on.. don go for without bill..

K

^^ He's already bought it.

the.kaushik said:
Friend i don know u bought or not.. if u haven't here is a suggestion.. see the display first.. all who has given there opinion don know they have seen the display or not..
I have seen and was not satisfied as the pixels were big like n73 and not crispy like n80.. just check before taking.
Note: Nokia never makes any phone without any flaw!
This was the first 16million color display.. if you like n93i go for it.Its also having 16million color display. its display was real awesome and same range..But again in look point of view n95 rocks..

Better put your hand on them and decide.

Also because n-series have lots of features and u can update firmware and so on.. don go for without bill..

Even E61 and a few more E series phones have 16M colours.
And not just N series, but you can update the firmwares of many more phones now, from S40 to S60 phones, all the new phones have firmware update support.

O

Don't buy N95:

#Expensive

#Display is far inferior to N80

#No FM Recording

#No usb charging

#Horrible battery,needs twice daily charging

#Lot of camera bugs!

#No optical zoom (like N93)

#Video quality not as expected

#Does not support more than 2GB

#Dual sliders prone for mechanical problems

Thats all.....He..He..heeee.........I can't be more jealous!!!!

Excellent Review of N95:

h**p://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_n95-review-141.php

Surprisingly,'Mobymemory' claims that N95 supports 4GB micrSD card:

h**p://www.mobymemory.com/N95-memory-cards.asp

oval_man said:
Don't buy N95:

#Expensive

#Display is far inferior to N80

#No FM Recording

#No usb charging

#Horrible battery,needs twice daily charging

#Lot of camera bugs!

#No optical zoom (like N93)

#Video quality not as expected

#Does not support more than 2GB

#Dual sliders prone for mechanical problems

Thats all.....He..He..heeee.........I can't be more jealous!!!!

Expensive matter has been discussed before. With all the features it packs ( though not usefull in India), it is pretty cheap and reasonable.

FM recording is not allowed in any phones as it goes against the Copyrights. I know a few phones from LG allow FM recording, but there was hue and cry against LG to allow to do so.

Battery horrible is a generalised statement. Recharging depends on your use and needs. WIth so many features inbuild, if you use all of them, it is obvious that you shall have to recharge it againa and again.

Camera bugs are present in every new phone, which Nokia solves with subsequent Firmware updates. Even Video quality can be improved using Firmware updates.
There is already a major firmware update out for N95, it has improved the noise in the images

Dual sliders prone to mechanical problems, you feel those people out there are fools not to have noticed this? Even at the time of Nokia 3250 people were rubbishing the twist interface calling it a mere problematic physic. I have been using it for an year, have not faced a single problem yet, nor has the twist got any loose.

Even the support for a higher storage memory card can be affed using Firmware updates.

I have no idea about Optical Zoom, but i believe N93 was marketed only as a Camera, whereas N95 is being marketed as a computer, Optical zoom was not expected.

Thats all.....He..He..heeee.........I can't laugh out more loud!!!!

OK. So the phone is perfect. It has no problems at all! LOL! :lol:

I'll tell you one problem, it is an ugly brick - like most other Nokia phones.

Beauty lies in the eyes of beholder. I totally agree that for you it might be an ugly brick, for me its otherwise

K

N95 projected as a big market hit!

Will E90 'kill' N95?

oval_man said:
Don't buy N95:

#Expensive

#Display is far inferior to N80

#No FM Recording

#No usb charging

#Horrible battery,needs twice daily charging

#Lot of camera bugs!

#No optical zoom (like N93)

#Video quality not as expected

#Does not support more than 2GB

#Dual sliders prone for mechanical problems

Thats all.....He..He..heeee.........I can't be more jealous!!!!

It is a waste of money to buy 5meg pixel w/o optical zoom or autofocus. and when you trying to sell a phone as a camera it better have a good flash as well.

ksundar said:
N95 projected as a big market hit!

Will E90 'kill' N95?

E90 is niche phone, I do not think it will kill N95.

Saw the N95... good cam but.... good music... but....
Well... these buts' makin me think again... N73ME is good for an Indian's POV in Nokias.
If the SE W880i was a 3.2MPx I'lda gone for it.. but... 2MPx.. SE need to get bigger MPx in Walkman phoners maan...
Waiting for the next big SE Walkman phone

3.2+MPx & Walkman capabilities

SE never lemme down

i'm also waiting for an se walkman phone wid 3mp cam and autofocus.......

I will be more happy if the arrival of SE W999i is true:

-8GB memory,
-Wi-Fi,
-3.2MP cam,
-Dual Slider.

that was a design contest... se may haf plans for w999.. but that surely won't make it man.. its the ugliest phone i've seen from se!!!

Nah, to me W999i looks nice. More like a PMP then a phone.

O

Its very unfortunate even newer SE Walkman mobiles like W660,W580 are packed with 2MP cam.

J

Hey pls send us pics of your Mobile and its accessory....it would be a nice thread on N95. Also..wat's eye catching....you know etc etc..I suggest you to write a review in next months Digit Mag

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dude my friend got this phone and i say right now nothing gonna beat this one, it also plays mp4 formats, sound pixel clarity everthing is just right in line, and it would cost 33k with bill.

A n73 does all that for like almost half the price (around 17 K IIRC)...I say N73 beats the N95...

I'm not going to spend twice the cost just to get photos in a bigger resolution which I am going to resize to 1280x1024 rez anyway...