Nokia N95 8GB review • 03.01.08
[Blue Champion is a well-known sports blogger who blogs about his favourite football club, Chelsea, at bluechampions. He recently switched from a *cough* Razr *cough* to Nokia N95 8GB. This is his first S60 v3 phone. Here’s his take on the phone. - Kay]
Okay, here is another thumbs up review for Nokia N95 8GB, but I don’t normally do mobile phone reviews. It neither pays me nor is my passion. I’ve spent my hard earned 28k on this. So, I’m just another customer of Nokia N95 8GB.
I bought this phone a couple of weeks back which is enough time to review if you know the kind of stress we put on gadgets in the first few days.
When I was looking for a new phone I had to conclude on what I wanted. Was it style or power or music or internet or camera, etc. Then I realised that even if I were particular about all these, I could get all this into one phone.
When I was doing my research and analysis, it didn’t take too much time to realise that I had Nokia N95 8GB on one side and the ‘other phones’ on the other side. Then I was asking myself what stops me from buying N95 8GB. Firstly, I did not want a bulky looking heavy phone. Secondly, how good looking would be a black phone which has a width of three-fourth an inch? Thirdly, it has a million features but do I need them at all?
I went to a mobile store with few other phones in mind but I wanted to check N95 8GB before I saw anything else. The phone looked so heavy until the store guy placed it on my palm. Believe me, it is not at all heavy for a mobile. And if you really need those features packed into that phone, it in fact can feel a lot lighter. And you know what, it was stylish, it looked real good. It felt like a brand new gun with it’s color, finish and the mass.
Whatever inhibitions I still had about the phone were blown over by the size of the screen. Then the money and the mobile exchanged hands. I was just hoping that I made the right choice. That was not the most expensive tech stuff I’ve ever bought, but in terms of cost per cubic centimetre, it is right on top.
Let me do it like a pro now. I’ll try to catch up on the major features that I understand and use. I’ll split the rest of the review into (i) phone calls (ii) music (iv) videos (iv) camera (v) internet (vi) gps (vii) battery (viii) etc.
Now to the surprises. I had watched the movie in a movie hall. Forget the superheroisms, Bourne 3 was an explosive experience right from the start. A no-nonsense script, crisp editing, out-of-ordinary, pulse-pounding music, great action sequences, and a capable (for this role) actor are all the things that make this movie a hell of an action flick. It would be no exaggeration to say that this phone gave me almost the same experience.
