Posted by God2B
http://www.allaboutsymbian.co[....]a_N95-HSDPA_WiFi_5MP_Camer.php
Nokia is announcing today the Nokia N95, its newest S60 3rd Edition multimedia computer, or, as Nokia say, 'it is what computers have become'. The N95 features an innovative double slide design with multimedia controls and a keypad on opposite end of the phones. The N95 is Nokia's first HSDPA (3.5G) device, but also boasts Wi-Fi, WCDMA, quad-band GSM, Bluetooth (including A2DP), IrDA and USB 2.0 connectivity (via mini USB connector). Other hardware features include a 5 megapixel camera, a built in GPS, TV-Out, 3.5mm audio jack, FM Radio, a MicroSD memory card slot and 150MB of internal memory. At 99mm x 20mm x 53mm (90cc), the N93 packs an impressively amount into a small space. Read on for full details and pictures.
In the hand the most impressive aspect of the device, given its feature set, is its size. Nokia have managed to add two major technologies to the Nseries line (GPS and HSDPA) while significantly reducing the volume of the device. In length and width dimensions it is larger that the other Nseries slider - the N80, but it is considerably thinner.
HSPDA is the next generationin cellular connectivity. The N95 is a category 6 HSPDA device which means it is up to 10 times faster that WCDMA (3G). Clearly HSDPA support is required at a network level, but many networks have already begun their testing or roll out periods. The faster connection speeds make downloading media (such as podcasts via the in built Podcast application) more palatable and should also improve latency/round trip times. Wi-Fi, WCDMA (3G) connectivity, together with quad band GSM and EDGE are also supported. Bluetooth 2.0, IrDA and USB make up the local connectivity options.
The 5.0 megapixel camera uses Carl Zeiss Optics with autofocus and digital zoom with a dedicated 2 stage capture button on the side of the phone. Video capture at near DVD quality is also supported. On the side of the device there are several buttons dedicated to camera usage. This allows the device to be held in a similar way to a traditional camera with the screen, in landscape mode, used as the view finder and the shutter button on bottom right hand side of the device (top right when phone is held horizontally). On the rear of the device, next to the camera is the slide switch, which is used to open the lens aperture and activate camera mode. Although it is difficult to judge the image quality at this stage the evidence we saw suggest that the N95 will be on of the most capable camera phones available.
A GPS is integrated into the device with anticipated accuracy of around 10m (satellite signal permitting). The devices will ship with an application called Maps which has global overview maps built in. More detailed maps (with coverage over more than 100 different countries available) can be downloaded for free from an online server. The detail available varies from country to country, but in many cases it is available down to street level. A point of interest (POI) database is also included. All the maps are available for free, as is basic route planning, but navigation functionality (with voice and on screen prompts) will be available as a pay-for add on. City Guides will also be available for purchase and other services are likely to be made available in the future. The mapping software and services is likely to based on technology from gate5, a company which Nokia recently announced it was acquiring.
Music playback is also a major focus of the device. The dedicated multimedia keys on the top flip of the device are primarily designed for music playback (although can also be used in other multimedia contexts). Wireless stereo sound output (via the A2DP Bluetooth profile) is also supported, and stereo audio output is also supported by the TV output feature and the on board stereo speakers. The music formats supported include MP3, AAC, AAC+ and WMA. Video playback on the QVGA screen is excellent and supported video formats include 3GP, Real Video and MP4 with support for the latest AVC codec.
The multimedia key now leads to a revamped application and multimedia shorcut view which now supports both a greater number of shortcuts (applications, multimedia files and bookmarks) and more flexible personalisation. As a result it is now a more generic shortcut key mechansim and offers an alternative to the standard application launcher.
The N95 uses S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 (Symbian 9.3) and as such includes version 2.0 of the open source Nokia web browser (supporting WML, XHTML and HTML in one browser), Flash Lite 2.0, FOTA (firmware over the air updates) and more.
The N95 uses the same small power port as other S60 3rd Edition devices, but the in-box charger is considerably smaller than the existing models (up to 60% smaller). The N95 has a 950 mAh battery, it is likely that the N95 will require a daily charge with moderate to heavy use, although 3-6 days may be possible with lighter use (dependent on network strength, type and other factors).
The N95 will be available in Q1 2007 and the approximate unsubsidised price is €550. Initially it will be available in the EMEA market. It will not be officially available in the US although gray imports are very likely.
Posted by Jah
On my shopping list
Posted by brix25
The features look pretty impressive.
Posted by Prom1
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WAS on my shopping list till I read the above. Another DEAD device that had the potential to be a legend amongst phones.
I hope SE can do one better.
Posted by SL33PYH34D
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Me too. Not normally a Nokia fan, but this looks like a very impressive device with pretty much everything you could want in one device - and importantly is running Symbian 9.3 with its HSDPA support and improved memory management.
Lets hope they have improved the build quality since the N80 and given it a high power battery.
Posted by Prom1
Did you not read the full info of the thread OP or in my post above regarding the battery.
I too think its an INCREDIBLE device .. but I learned from others mistakes regarding the N80's POOR battery performance.
Posted by jj03
you'd have thought they'd have learn't by now...awesome device once again, but much like the n80, the battery lets it down...shame...they would have certainly have had my cash.
Posted by Spawn
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That above is enough to put me off buying such a device, i will never ever go back to nokia...biggest mistake was leaving SE to go back to them but thanks to the 6680 and n80 which i both had...they put the final nail in the coffin for me when it comes to nokia. Nice phones but god awful implementation of features and im sure the n95 will be no exception.
Thanks but no thanks, id rather wait for SE to bring out a similar device....i wouldnt touch nokia if you paid me:D
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Note even released yet... and you're already speculating on the battery life?!?
Posted by SL33PYH34D
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Pretty dissappointing only being 950mAh, but I guess until the device is officially launched or available for review we won't really know for sure. It may be that Symbian 9.3 also brings with it further power efficiencies, or that Nokia has been able to improve battery life dramatically over the N80. The P990i has a 950mAh battery too, and whilst I think we all would have liked the higher capacity BST-34, I don't think the battery life is too bad (certainly nothing like N80 bad anyway), so I don't see why the N95 should be much worse.
Posted by sunnychad
NOKIA HAVE CANED IT...
Oh My God....
A friend has been going on about this handset since May 2006, now I know why. Shame we have to wait 6 more months to get it!!!
On the list too!!!
Posted by Jah
Seems like the N95 has 64MB or RAM - I wonder if Nokia and Symbian have now released more RAM for user apps under Symbian 9.3?
Posted by SL33PYH34D
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Possibly, but don't forget it will be running Symbian 9.3 with its "much improved" memory mangement.
Posted by QuickShare
with such a massive features fitted in a compact size.. the battery performance was my first consideration. Can't they just upgrade the battery first? btw it's a cool phone
Posted by shyam335
Nice specs,hope its smaller and cheaper than n93!
Posted by SL33PYH34D
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Unsubsidised price will be 550 euros.
Posted by amnesia
I just want to see it's proportions.
Slimmer the better.
I like how you slide the pad the OTHER way to display music buttons, and the screen looks huge.
Oh how I wish it was touch screen.
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Posted by driveforward
This device has an awesome cutting edge list of specs - it's what we used to expect from the P series. I think it just shows how SE took their eye off the ball after the development of the P910.
I'm far from a Nokia fan, and wouldn't buy one of these, but if you compare what it has to offer to what the P990 has, there's a gulf of difference
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what?! it's not? .. darn, i should read the whole article...
Posted by deepsme
all n95 official details here...
http://www.slashphone.com/87/5389.html
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Yes, no qwerty keyboard and no touchscreen...i know that many people don´t like/need this, but i guarantee you most PXXX or recent P990 users do, so its not quite an alternative, i rather see HTC new products has the real competition for P series
Posted by axxxr
ESATO NEWS:
Nokia introduces the all-in-one multimedia computer Nokia N95
Posted by Prom1
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I'm not speculating .... its PURE FACT. This device has the SAME features as the N80 (WiFi, uPnP, more powerful camera+Auto Focus, a LARGER SCREEN means more consistent power to run even at the same pixel resolution. I'm sure the cpu will be much faster than the N80 and I see NO great developments in mobile cpus that have been more efficient than whats on the market. This can change BEFORE mass production ... but this'll mean more cost to Nokia and to the end user = a double edge sword. Nokia have NOT improved their battery technology for quite sometime. the B series.... specifically the one used in the N-Gage QD is STILL the most powerful battery they've ever have! FACT. Nothing in Nokia's spec's not even the ....
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I see NO documentation that substantiates this claim. Glad to see someone ELSE realized a serious battery issue potential from a more recent Nokia device. in the PRESS release NOKIA THEMSELVES stated only 200-250hrs light usuage ... that doesnt equate to the kind of WiFi surfing/streaming that can be done on the P990i. SE is KING with low power consumption. SE went with a known power efficient cpu. Nokia hasnt yet thus far.
Dont get me wrong this N95 is a beautiful device ... I just think that SE could provide us with something better this coming January.
Posted by etaab
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Dont hold your breath, look how long it took SE to get the P990i out, and its virtually obsolete compared to the latest smartphones.
The N93 uses a 970mAh battery, only slightly larger in capacity than the N80's (correct me if im wrong), ive used both my own N93 and N80, and never had any battery issues at all - and ive used both phones much more heavily than i ever did any SE handset before !
Sorry to pee on your parade, but i also thought the N93's battery life would be poor before i bought one, but it lasts me 3 days minimum !
Posted by Prom1
@etaab, thanks for the reply ....
But starting out on a full charge.
- how many hours of music & voice calls did you make?
- any video calls? how long?
- how long did you surf WiFi for along with voice/video calls and MP3 playback?
> After all this combined or used in part ... did you N80 last 3 days? If so how much battery life did it have left? How much of EACH that I've listed above did you use EACH day? Sorry one generic post doesnt rain on my parade, especially the huge long threads of N80 owners that I've read on HowardForums.com site.
Care to substantiate your claim please?!
PS I wasnt talking about battery issues, I was talking about power consumption issues with the 970mAh battery.
Posted by amnesia
@ares, Most people I know don't care about the qwerty keyboard.
It's the touch screen that is important.
I'm not going to judge this phone until there are actual people using it.
Perhaps it is more efficient than the N80.
Of course if you're going to have Wifi, Bluetooth and the camera on with max brightness you'll drain it.
To me I want to know how it will be with a normal person's usage.
Phone calls, messages, taking pictures now and then etc...
I mean, I'm disappointed it's thick, so I at least hope it has acceptable battery. (As long as it lasts two days I'm happy because I plug it into my charger every night).
Perhaps SE will surprise us with a P1000. But my then, the P1000 will be a 3mp phone with crappy video recording and all the other phones will be 5mps
Posted by darky
without a touch screen this device is doomed.
Posted by ares
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i also thought that...untill i had one...its unbelievable how fast i can write now with a qwerty keyboard, specially for web posting, email and msn talks on the phone
now that i have seen what it can do, i won´t buy another phone wihtout qwerty keyboard....
and there are LOTS of people that want it, just look at HTC devices also
Posted by pkimshk
does it support blackberry connect?
Posted by Vein
Can't believe people are moaning about a touch screen, it wouldn't be a Nokia if it had touch screen.
It's an awesome phone, a definite partner of the N73.
Can't wait to see the camera shots from it.
Posted by axxxr
Nokia N95 Video Preview
Posted by SloopJohnB
It looks great!
Posted by jj03
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rofl....that's a ridiculous and very stupid statement....
Posted by SloopJohnB
the device is destined to success! hehehehe
Posted by etaab
Nice video, but the phone looks huge in the womans hands - and i mean BIG. It might just be an illusion or depth perception thing though..
@ Prom1 - First off, ive never owned a N80, but i had one for a week earlier this year not long after it came out. Starting on a full charge, i made the same average amount of calls i make each day. Sure, some days the amount of calls i make differ to others, but generally i spent about 1-2 hour(s) per day in total call time split between calls.
As for playing music, i never did that on the N80, i havent played music on my mobile phone(s) since i decided to buy a cd player for my car instead of using my phone + fm transmitter. Since i dont walk to work anymore, and ive started taking the car, i never get chance to even play mp3 files whilst on the move, and i certainly dont sit at home listening to them when i can play them on my hi-fi or pc.
Video call wise, i never made a single one on the N80 as far as i can remember. However, i did use 3G to access the internet rather heavily at the time, possibly for 1-2 hours per day.
Regarding wi-fi, i used it very little except for one day where i connected to a free access point for about 90 minutes.
So, all in all the N80 would last me a full day easily, and possibly the next until evening came when the battery meter would start to get low. Considering when i had the phone, i was playing with it none stop for much of the time, for many hours of the day. If you add up my call time, the amount of time i was playing around with the phone, and using 3G, i wasnt overly impressed by the battery life, but satisfied, it wasnt anywhere near as bad as people make out. Also, people make out that the phone has bad battery life because they used 3G to make video calls whilst connecting to Wlan to surf the web, whilst playing mp3 files, but then do people really do all that at once ? no wonder their phones literally eat batteries. So, i reckon the N80 had about the same battery life as my old K750i, and it had less than half the functionality of the N80.
Regarding the N93 - its a different beast altogether. The battery may only be 20mAh bigger in capacity (apparently), but the battery lasts twice as long as the N80's imo, its quite superb. I charge my N93 every 2 days, usually when the battery meter is at around 50%, if i dont charge it, it lasts me 3 days. Also, i use the phone many times more than i did the N80.
So, my assumption is the N80 has poorer battery life (but not bad battery life at all) simply because of its high definition screen, which the N93 and the new N95 do not have - they have QVGA screens.
Another point worth mentioning is many people who do not live in fully covered 3G areas, will have their phones drop the 3G signal. Where i live, mine does not, so the phone never has to search for a 3G signal when it loses it (because it does not lose it). This itself saves battery power, couple that with the fact i keep the connection manager in my N93 (and on the N80) off so that it never searches for a Wlan access point every 60 seconds also saves battery power.
Basically, the bottom line is, the N80 would last me a full day easily, 2 if i made fewer calls. The N93 will last me 3 days with ease. Im very much impressed by Nokia now, and i cannot remember the last time a SE handset lasted so long - and they never had 3G, wi-fi or other power hungry hardware / software inside the phone.
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Posted by dalevil
Nice cool phone...... from nokia N95.....
Posted by SL33PYH34D
Right. Just to clarify the battery issue - and this comes from someone who has played with one today:
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Looks promising then. Have got to say this device really captures my imagination.
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no my statment states something, yours just shows how ignorant you are,
no keyboard / no touchscreen, obviously you haven't had a device with either.
All these connections and features seem useless without a touchscreen / keyboard, try surfing the web with t9 and the arrow keys, enjoy your life
gps and 5mp camera are a plus but let's see how the gps affects battery life and if the camera is true 5mp quality or just sized that way
Posted by Residentevil
I really do not like Nokia, but this phone got my attention. Maybe even to the point to switch and buy that instead of a P990.
Posted by Prom1
@etaab. Many thanks for that summary of usuage on BOTH the N80 & N93. Much appreciated & now puts it into focus. I live in Toronto in the downtown area, so WiFi is highly abundant and GSM providers (just two) dont offer PURE unlimited (or true unlimited, capped at 200MB then overage charges = pure rapage!) Because WiFI is so abundant I'd be able to use it over 1.5hrs daily just posting here & on other threads and streaming music (hopefully through YOUTUBE) and Wikipedia. I'm also listen to 1hr just one way to work for MP3 playback - as I do with my W810i. So for me I'd probably have an issue with battery power. I do about 2hrs of voice calls per day. Maybe but again on the N80 I wouldnt/couldnt use 3G here in Canada ... wrong band.
> darky, Not sure how your learning curve on S60 with T9 served you ... but for me on Class 6 EDGE on a 6620 I was doing pretty fine with xHTML on it surfing all kinds!
> SL33PYH34D; I missed whom posted that quote about a 1500mAh battery ... but if it SHIPS with it ITS MINE! Until SE comes out with something comperable or bettery. Double Sliding looks a bit loose in the Youtube video so I'm a bit worried about it but its cool. btw, it DID look HUGE in that girlies hand ... those hands I wouldnt hire for a bedroom job though ... to small; so N95 souldnt be too different in dimensions from the N80.
Posted by mib1800
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darky: All these connections and features seem useless without a touchscreen / keyboard, try surfing the web with t9 and the arrow keys, enjoy your life |
Obviously you have not seen the new Nokia web browser in action.
To me a touchscreen is a burden. You always have to be careful with the LCD as it has no protection. And not to mention you have to use both hands to write. I can type faster using T9 than writing using touchscreen.
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gps and 5mp camera are a plus but let's see how the gps affects battery life and if the camera is true 5mp quality or just sized that way |
Well, N95 has wifi/gps/music/5mp/dvd video rec/tv out in ONE device MUCH SMALLER and lighter than p990. What more can you ask for? No other phone on this planet packs so much. If battery can last a day with intensive use (using gps, wifi) then it is good enough. Another great point is the free GPS maps.
Even the P990 battery life is horrible using wifi (and not using) . I think the p990 would still be MORE EXPENSIVE than N95 when it comes out. That's a bummer. At this moment p990 is already obsoleted in spec. Unless SE pulls a rabbit out of the hat fast, it has already lost the tech race.
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@darky: ok so all you want is a touch screen. Then go get one if not already and be happy with it. The majority of smart phone users is however not using any touchscreen and I dont think they feel any worse
Even 
realized a touchscreen is itself not sufficient and they have to put a keyboard with it. is strategically stuck to their touchscreen and UIQ but they wouldnt do any worse if they adopted S60, on the contrary I believe that if they dumped UIQ they would do better.
Posted by miguel82
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N95 its a little big than N80 but with all that features who cares about that?
The only problem maybe the battery life but if lasts more than a complete day with intensive use for me is fine and i go for it 
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Actually, ive owned eight (now n73) nokia smartphones since 2001, so i think i am qualified to make a statement about it....you quote is ridiculous. i have also owned a p900/p910i, and i can't see why the device would be doomed without a touchscreen etc...furthermore, you gave no evidence regarding your statement, and generally, you are completely wrong...why would it be doomed? if your gonna make remarks that stupid, then at least back it up...
Of course, the n73 must be "doomed" too...as it isn't touchscreen...oh..hold on..it is selling well...
Generally, i don't use t9, so does that mean it will be unusable? erm...gee..let me think...no...as far as gps goes, it doesn't mean i have to use it because it's simply on the device does it? no..i didn't think so.
I managed perfectly fine with the n80 and it's web browser with out touchscreen/stylus, and i believe it will have the same browser (pretty much guarentee it actually) so i can't see that i would struggle...
Overall, i would say you have no valid point's at all. Try using at least some part of your brain before making random stupid comments eh...good man.
Posted by QVGA
Whats the difference b/w a high definition screen and QVGA screen?
Posted by amnesia
I'd imagine that Highdef screen's res is 1400X900 or something like that
and a 320X240 (Q stands for Quarter so QVGA is Quarter VGA)
If SE doesn't announce something tempting in time, I think I'm going to have this phone.
Posted by QuickShare
this is a great device IMHO.. wouldn't think twice to replace my current K750.. but i do hope SE could catch up with a better one in the future.. probably next year? fingers crossed
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But N80 doesnt have that kinda resolution. Its more than QVGA, 320x400 something i guess. Then why do they call that high def?
Posted by amnesia
I don't know why they would call it such a res. I think it's 'hype'
If you are saying that the N95 is 320X400 then that is not high def that's for sure.
Posted by Pepi
wow...all i can say is WOW!