Nokia N95 - King of all Smartphones?

[Fingers]

5 meg camera, GPS, video, mp3 etc etc - it seems to have it all.

Not convinced personally - moved away from Nokia 6 months ago because Symbian seemed so clunky, but here I am moving back because it looks like a great gadget that none of the other leaders have come up with yet (Hello - Sony!).

Getting mine on a free in a couple of days, will report back on how I get on. Hey - can't be as bad as a windows mobile device can it?

Yo Mr D. Just upgraded to the n95 myself from an n80 and don't seem to be having as many problems as you (apart from the GPS taking an age to log on)

Have you checked you have the latest firmware installed?



What I do recommend is a fast sd memory card, anything less that 80x will slow the phone down. I got my 2gb for about £17 from an online store

 

[dogmatique]

Hello you horrible little man!

I checked for the latest version at www.nokia.com/updatesoftware, and there isn't anything listed yet. If you know better, let me know...

Memory card is a sandisk 2gig supplied by o2, should be adequate.

Hey! Have you tried the barcode reader yet? Fookin useless! Go on... try and scan something...

 

[dogmatique]

Left the phone connected to the computer whilst it took it's time downloading maps onto the memory card, went to bed.

Woke up a couple of hours later, stumbled past the phone, noticed that it was completely dead! During the transfer process, not only had the usb cable not drawn voltage, it had drained it completely!

Seriously shite. Let's hope this is all firmware fixable...

 

[editor]

Woke up a couple of hours later, stumbled past the phone, noticed that it was completely dead! During the transfer process, not only had the usb cable not drawn voltage, it had drained it completely

Couldn't you just take the memory card out and drag the files over from your PC using a card reader. Or does it use those fucking annoying miniSD cards?

 

[dogmatique]

It only allows you to download directly either to the phone, or the sd card you can't download to the pc first - haven't got round to putting the card reader in the machine yet, so used the data cable.

Yep, it's one of those tiny sd cards, but does come with a converter. Either way, pretty poor that the battery should just drain out...

 

[FaradayCaged]

my m8 got one yesterday on contract and the GPS shows him where ATM machines are how cool it that...... i dont know if any other GPS devices do this so if they do ignore me lol

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Or does it use those fucking annoying miniSD cards?

I like em, besides when I bought mine it came with a SD glove for SD readers...

 

[editor]

I like em, besides when I bought mine it came with a SD glove for SD readers...

So how do you transfer images off the SD card of your camera when you're out with your phone? You can't and that's why they suck!

 

[Xanadu]

Those miniSD converters only cost a pound each. Why don't you buy a few of them and keep 'em around.

 

[editor]

Those miniSD converters only cost a pound each. Why don't you buy a few of them and keep 'em around.

How's that going to work when you're outside with just the SD card from the camera and your mini-SD phone?

I'm fed up with having hundreds of different storage formats and for once, my entire collection of gadgets - Treo 650, Ricoh GR, Nikon D80 and Canon Ixus - all work together. Who needs another fucking storage format?

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Those miniSD converters only cost a pound each. Why don't you buy a few of them and keep 'em around.

That's what I do, I have the converter with me. Not hard to do really...

 

[editor]

That's what I do, I have the converter with me. Not hard to do really...

You've lost me here. How do you get the phone to read the full sized SD card from the camera if you're nowhere near a PC? And you don't think it's a pain in the arse having yet another format - meaning you've got to buy yet more cards that won't work with everything?

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Oh right read that the wrong way...tbh I'm far past caring about the annoyance of yet another format, there's nothing I can do about it and they're always going to introduce smaller and bigger storage cards. Don't see any point in getting irate about it really. *shrugs*

 

[editor]

Oh right read that the wrong way...tbh I'm far past caring about the annoyance of yet another format, there's nothing I can do about it and they're always going to introduce smaller and bigger storage cards.

It pisses me off more because at the moment I can take a picture on my Nikon, shove the card into my Treo, view it straight off the bat and then - if I'm so minded - edit it and upload it to my blog. Nice.

That's not possible with a mini SD phone. The forthcoming new Treo might have a mini SD card slot too, so it's a general moan.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

It pisses me off more because at the moment I can take a picture on my Nikon, shove the card into my Treo, view it straight off the bat and then - if I'm so minded - edit it and upload it to my blog. Nice.

That's not possible with a mini SD phone. The forthcoming new Treo might have a mini SD card slot too, so it's a general moan.

Fair enough but I doubt there's a huge amount of people like you doing that so it makes sense that no company is going to take that into consideration when deciding on their storage format of choice.

I don't expect that much from my technology to be honest, I'm fairly happy to snap with my 3.2mp N73, edit and upload directly to my blog from it rather than lug a proper dslr around with me with the intent of editing and uploading from my mobile phone.

Perhaps in future more cameras and mobiles having wifi might be the solution you're looking for?

 

[Xanadu]

How's that going to work when you're outside with just the SD card from the camera and your mini-SD phone?

I'm fed up with having hundreds of different storage formats and for once, my entire collection of gadgets - Treo 650, Ricoh GR, Nikon D80 and Canon Ixus - all work together. Who needs another fucking storage format?

Ah different way round!

I don't ever end up doing that kind of thing to be fair. All my photos are taken on my cameraphone at the mo. If I want to move them off for more room, I have a 60Gb MP3 player with USB OTG which does the trick.

 

[editor]

Oh dear. Orange and Vodafone have disabled the N95's VoIP capabilities.

http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/7389/8413/Nokia-N95-Orange-Vodaphone-VoIP.phtml

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Oh dear. Orange and Vodafone have disabled the N95's VoIP capabilities.

http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/7389/8413/Nokia-N95-Orange-Vodaphone-VoIP.phtml

Yep pretty crap. I remember T Mobile used do that too, but they saw the light it seems. Maybe some clever type might figure out a way round it?