After much hype the original nokia n95 it was a bit disappointing. Despite all the clever details, including the excellent 5-megapixel camera and handy sat-nav features, this turned out to be one of the most frustrating phones we tested. The reason for this was that the memory simply couldn’t keep up with the robust applications it was running; this led to frequent crashing.
So thanks to Nokia, they tackled this problem head on with the launch of the super NOKIA N95 8GB. A powerful phone indeed. With a huge 8 gig internal memory, enough to store hundreds of music tracks, thousands of images and video clips. Retaining the excellent 5 megapixel camera of the original N95 with its Carl Zeiss optics, Tessar lens. The camera function has a digital zoom of up to 20x (5 megapixels up to 6x). The video camera installation offers digital zoom up to 10x (VGA up to 4x).
This third generation phone really leads the way as an innovative multimedia device. This phone also offers the opportunity to surf the Internet in style on the large 2.8″ QVGA (240 x 320 pixels) TFT display with ambient light detector and up to 16 million colours, very impressive. As it is a phone Slider allows you to swipe the screen and operate the camera and gallery in landscape or portrait mode, this is not only stylish but makes the N95 8GB easier to use than previous phones.
But there was a question that we needed to be answered; Does the Nokia N95 8GB crash in the same way as the original Nokia N95? After a month of daily use we are happy to say no. It hasn’t crashed at all and we’ve been putting it through some pretty heavy use. However, if your phone crashes; We understand that you can download free software updates from the Nokia website, which should resolve any issues.
The graphics of the Nokia NGAGE gaming feature looks great, and on top of that, it also allows you to make calls and send text messages (we almost forgot about that!)
To conclude, we found the NOKIA N95 8GB to be an excellent phone and multimedia device, with some great features and light years ahead of any of the other Nokia Nseries phones – easily the best phone we’ve ever reviewed.
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