Nokia N95 is in the house!

Apr 5, 2007 at 12:28 AM
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I am blessed to be a part of the Nokia Nseries Blogger Relations program where the latest and greatest devices are sent out to evaluate and test to the limits. My personal favorites up until now have been the N93 and N73. The N93 has been acting up a bit so the N73 has been the workhorse lately. I also really enjoyed using the N80ie, but the battery didn't last me more than 4-5 hours with some WiFi usage so it just wasn't working out as well as I hoped.

I loaded up the N95 so far with Widsets, Gmail, Truphone, RoadSync, and Shozu. I setup my Vox and Flickr accounts and so far have just found that Fring doesn't work with the N95 yet. I also am thinking about finding an integrated PIM application like I use on Windows Mobile devices and will have to look into Papyrus and AquaCalendar.

My wife was blown away by the functionality and light weight of the N95 and I can't wait to see what this baby can do.

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can you use gmail in landscape mode?

Gmail works fine in landscape mode. The two soft key buttons still appear at the bottom though so you have to make sure you press the right keys since they don't rotate to the right side (in landscape mode) like the native Nokia apps do. Still this is very usable. I plan to test out an Office program to use it in landscape with a Bluetooth keyboard.

I actually plan to take some video of the N95 in action and post it here this weekend after the family goes to bed :)

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The N95 is such a great phone, capable of video, GPS, VoIP and more. If you like this phone too, you might be interested in this video from Truphone* which shows the N95 in all it's glory - as well as how to take advantage of Wifi connectivity and using mobile VoIP.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMGCYuqqqxs

But before you buy on contract... ask if anything has been disabled. Some carriers give you the whole phone... and some do not.

If in doubt, here's a video showing you what's missing on some operator-modified phones.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB0OmHtp3uk

*Disclaimer: I work for Truphone