Posted by laffen
The European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA) annual award for best European Media Phone was given to Nokia N95 and European Mobile Phone award to Samsung SGH-U700
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The EISA argument for awarding N95 the best Media Phone:
Within the Nokia N95's exceptionally ergonomic housing resides practically every feature one could imagine in a mobile device. The list includes GPS navigation system, Google Earth, 5 Megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens, MPEG4 video capture up to 30 fps, HSDPA data access up to 3.5 Mb/s, an advanced web browser, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, infrared, USB connections, microSD slot, audio reproduction of multiple audio formats (MP3/AAC/AAC+/eAAC+/WMA/M4A) and more. It's no mere mobile phone and no mere status symbol. Pick up a Nokia N95 and you hold in your hands a state-of-the-art communication tool – the ideal way to remain permanently in touch and on track with the world that surrounds you
The EISA argument for awarding U700 the best Mobile Phone:
It's not only the striking sleek design of Samsung's SGH-U700 slider handset that appeals to today's mobile phone user. Equally impressive is the ability to boost data transmission speeds up to ten times faster than normal UMTS through the use of HSDPA - an impressive performance. Of course today's mobile phones are not only for talking, and accordingly the '700' supports audio-compression technologies such as MP3, AAC and AAC+ with its integrated mobile audio player, and video-compression technologies such as MPEG4 with its video player. The built-in 3.2-megapixel camera, with 4x digital zoom, adds to its versatility. A handy 'U Go' feature automatically adapts the display as travellers change locales: there are day and night scenes for 64 countries, including Castle Neuschwanstein in Germany, the Sagrada Familia cathedral in Spain, and a traditional windmill in the Netherlands.
The jury in both categories consisted of these European magazines: Audio & Cinema - Portugal, Audio Review - Italy, Hifi Vidéo Home - France, HIGHfidelity - Denmark, Le Photographe - France, Ljud & Bild - Sweden, Media Totaal - Netherlands, Sound Vision - Greece, Stereo & Video -j Czech Republic and Sztereó Sound&Vision - Hungary.
It is not the first time Nokia receive an award from EISA. Nokika N93 won the Media Phone category last year and Nokia N90 won the same category in 2005/2006. The European Mobile Phone category was first awarded this year.
About EISA
EISA is the largest editorial multimedia organization in Europe, with a membership of 50 Audio, Mobile Electronics, Video and Photo magazines drawn from 20 European countries. At the end of June all EISA member magazines come together in an European city for the most important meeting in the year - the elections of the European 
Awards. From all products introduced during the preceding twelve months, each panel must choose the best equipment in each category. One strength of EISA's European Awards is their flexible approach. The Awards categories, for example, are not recreated automatically every year. If the jury decides that, during the previous 12 months, and within a certain category, there have been introduced no new products that really deserve an Award, which category can be cancelled temporarily. On the other hand our juries are aware of the need to follow market conditions, so every year there is the opportunity to introduce new categories.
In June each year, the editors-in-chief from all EISA member magazines meet to decide which of products analyzed in their publications during the past year deserve the coveted EISA Award. The six categories under consideration are: Audio, Video, Home Theater, Photography, Mobile Electronics and Convergence. There is no doubt that this EISA Award is the most prestigious honour for a consumer electronics manufacturer to receive in Europe and this year around 56 products were declared as "Best Product" in their category by the EISA judges for the period 2006-2007.
Posted by SMS
they both deserved it!!
N95 is the current most feature-rich phone.
U700 combines one great design with sleek body and a not-so-bad feature set too!
:applaud:
Posted by MWEB
HaHa i agree with you SMS, there's a rareity.
Posted by SMS
mweb6161! hey I feel like home again!
back to topic: here's nokia bragging about it:
http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1146866
[ This Message was edited by: SMS on 2007-08-16 14:25 ]
Posted by Nickp990
nokia n95 wow.gratest phone.ther best i ever seen
Posted by razec
If only K850 and W960 have been available earlier, then i'm sure N95 wont aquire the throne it obviously doesn't deserved
Posted by Dextrr
Congrats to Nokia and Samsung! Nokia for un-rivaled above "state of the art" specs and Samsung for killer looks! This award, hopefully, will encourage Nokia to make better high-tech convergence handsets and Samsung more thin and stylish devices.
Posted by Dextrr
On 2007-08-17 03:45:11, razec wrote:
If only K850 and W960 have been available earlier, then i'm sure N95 wont aquire the throne it obviously doesn't deserved
Hello Razec -
I hope you are being sarcastic when you said that, because I don't see the W960 or K850 winning against the N95. The W960 is a superb music phone. The K850 is an amazing camera phone. But the N95 is both plus GPS and DVD quality VGA recording, the jury would still have voted for the N95, don't you think?
Posted by Dups!
Congratulations to nokia. Despite the slider, built quality issues and not so convincing 5mp camera quality the n95 is head and shoulders above other phones. No complaints from me there. As for samsung I'm shocked to say the least! I don't agree with the judging committee on this one.
Posted by rockygali
those guys who feel sorry for SE... ei cmon!
we all have bad hair day! this is one of those....
thats wot i said on the other thread about SE steppin on the pedal...
and just wait till next year... lotsa show stoppers! its gonna be a good one for all of us.
Posted by SMS
On 2007-08-17 06:13:13, rockygali wrote:
those guys who feel sorry for SE... ei cmon!
we all have bad hair day! this is one of those....
thats wot i said on the other thread about SE steppin on the pedal...
and just wait till next year... lotsa show stoppers! its gonna be a good one for all of us.
I can't see why you folks are expecting so much from such a small company, isn't it expected that the winners will be from the biggest two companies(on the marketshare scale)?
Samsung (for example) is one company with tremendous R&D and production powers, and by that they have the widest phone protfolio amongst the top 5!
[ This Message was edited by: SMS on 2007-08-17 13:48 ]
Posted by himlims_nl
i do to find the results quite odd
yes it's true n95 does have a lot of features, but they are quite buggy
rather find the 6110 a better phone.
since it got solid housing, average camera, but usable navigation software
but the u700 .... no way ... no way this phone makes you think you have a sagem (such cheap and crappy plastic is used)
Posted by Dogmann
@himlims_nl
Sorry but you really don't know what you are talking about the N95 has had two firmware revisions in a very short period of time and has the sort of speed and stability any SE smart phone would kill for buggy it most certainly isn't other wise i doubt 1.5 million would of been sold in the first few months and it is still continuing to sell well now.
Now if you want a buggy phone choose an SE smart phone that's one award they can win easily no contest.
Marc
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Honoured to have won BEST DEBATER
[ This Message was edited by: Dogmann on 2007-08-18 16:08 ]
Posted by Nickp990
i will wait se, what they will give us after p1 and if i will didnot like it i will become nokia user
suarly
Posted by brix25
N95 is a monster of phone, when Nokias work perfectly there's very few phones that come close. Have to agree with some posters though regarding the dodgy-looking slide mechanism and the plastic finish on the N95.
Posted by Dogmann
@brix25
No one to my knowledge has claimed there were no problems at any time but when you consider this device has sold over 1.5 million the number that have less than perfect devices or problems is actually very small. Although in a perfect world they should all be perfect unfortunately life just isn't that simple.
I have just sold my N95 to Mutleboy and mine has a perfect slider screen and over all construction, it also never suffered from one crash or freeze either. If you doubt my word PM him and he will confirm that even though mine was two months it is indeed perfect.
But then i installed only the apps that i needed to the phone not the memory card and didn't install loads of themes some of which may look nice but may not of been written that well. A lot of problems faced by some users dare i say it are actually the users fault.
In general the N95 is simply the most powerful and advanced Multimedia smart phone available there is nothing out there from any other manufacturer that comes close and if any one knows any different please enlighten me.
On Friday i tried a Z8 which is billed as a Multimedia smart phone and although it has 16million colour screen and the same chip as the N95 couldn't even play the included Bourne Ultimatum Film it's playback was inferior in both quality nad sound to my much older and less powerful E61 which is a business smart phone not Multimedia. The poor salesman in the 02 was stunned and didn't know what to say on comparing the two as the E61 just owned it.
Marc
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Nokia E61, 2gb Sandisk, Fring, Shure EC2g
Honoured to have won BEST DEBATER
[ This Message was edited by: Dogmann on 2007-08-18 16:25 ]
Posted by QVGA
Agreed, my friend also complaint about N95 sub standard slider mechanism. The device costs 700$ and there shouldn't be an excuse. Though there are ones which are perfect, there are too many which arnt. If they can make E65 and 5300 perfect, why not a device which costs 2 times and 4 times more respectively?
Posted by SMS
On 2007-08-18 17:45:58, QVGA wrote:
Agreed, my friend also complaint about N95 sub standard slider mechanism. The device costs 700$ and there shouldn't be an excuse. Though there are ones which are perfect, there are too many which arnt. If they can make E65 and 5300 perfect, why not a device which costs 2 times and 4 times more respectively?
because all the money you pay go for the big number of extras inside, come to think of it, imagine N95 had had better materials too, it would cost even more than it is now!
Posted by QVGA
On 2007-08-18 21:20:26, SMS wrote:
On 2007-08-18 17:45:58, QVGA wrote:
Agreed, my friend also complaint about N95 sub standard slider mechanism. The device costs 700$ and there shouldn't be an excuse. Though there are ones which are perfect, there are too many which arnt. If they can make E65 and 5300 perfect, why not a device which costs 2 times and 4 times more respectively?
because all the money you pay go for the big number of extras inside, come to think of it, imagine N95 had had better materials too, it would cost even more than it is now!
No, not really, N95 really costs a lot more than your conventional high-end phone. N93 has exceptional built quality and has nearly the same amount of goodies. Nokia cant make a slider worth a damn and they know it, 6280 and 6270 were terrible phones construction wise. They should really learn something from samsung.
Posted by SMS
@QVGA
they already did with E65, 6110N and 6500Slide
Posted by QVGA
On 2007-08-19 11:11:56, SMS wrote:
@QVGA
they already did with E65, 6110N and 6500Slide
Thats what makes it more inexcusable, if N95 was perfect and the ones you mentioned werent, i could have lived with that. Its their top offering with a below par construction. I just hope the new batches have this problem fixed.
Posted by Alexandra
N95- great choics (though still no N80)
Samsung- very poor choice. Chose it on data speed and style only, two things that nobody cares about.
Posted by SMS
On 2007-08-19 12:04:47, Alexandra wrote:
Samsung- very poor choice. Chose it on data speed and style only, two things that nobody cares about.
nobody cares about style!
Posted by Alexandra
On 2007-08-19 11:38:01, QVGA wrote:
On 2007-08-19 11:11:56, SMS wrote:
@QVGA
they already did with E65, 6110N and 6500Slide
Thats what makes it more inexcusable, if N95 was perfect and the ones you mentioned werent, i could have lived with that. Its their top offering with a below par construction. I just hope the new batches have this problem fixed.
yeah the poor build quality is what lets the N95 and N80 down.
Posted by Brightspark
awards such as these should be taken with a pinch of salt anyway. it's just a marketing thing and they don't mean anything.
Posted by mib1800
On 2007-08-19 22:57:55, Brightspark wrote:
awards such as these should be taken with a pinch of salt anyway. it's just a marketing thing and they don't mean anything.
I dont think EISA is part of Nokia/Samsung marketing department.
Posted by SMS
yes, and such big reputable awards can be trusted imo.
Posted by NightBlade
'Nokia today announced the Nokia N95 multimedia computer has been voted 'the European Media Phone of the Year 2007-2008'
Um, multimedia computer? Wonder if it would run Halo...
Hello, it's just a cell phone!
(technically, all cell phones are computers, but still...)
Posted by QVGA
On 2007-08-22 01:47:10, NightBlade wrote:
!
(technically, all cell phones are computers, but still...)
what do u mean "but still"? when you admit they are computers, thats the end of story right there.
Posted by BobaFett
nokia advertises n95 like a computer, imo its also a bit exaggarated