Nokia N95

“Till today I have never had the courage to name any phone like the best one on the market with clear conscience. But Nokia N95 does deserve this label. It has no adequate competitors on the current mobile market: it is extremely rich in functions, has a comfortable and detailed user interface with plenty of settings, and on the top of it, it is a relatively light and compact.The most notable drawback of Nokia N95 is its battery life. It will require daily doses of power, unless you limit its usage to occasional calls and messages, deactivate 3G, Wi-Fi, and GPS, and play no videos. In this case you may happen to postpone charging by a couple of days, but is such use worth the purchase of a phone like Nokia N95? The answer is no. Of course, battery life is an individual matter and depends on many factors. Nevertheless we can assure you that during our intensive tests we had no other option but to charge the device sometimes even twice a day.The first batch of Nokia N95 hit the market at a high price. Even so it was immediately sold out. The main delivery whose price is said to be a bit lower is being expected at the end of April. Anyway, the price remains rather high, perhaps due to the strong customer demand. Nokia N95 may be very expensive, but it also offers a lot and thus keeps attracting numerous prospective buyers. In this sequence of thoughts it is quite probable that in a few months, when the initial ecstasy falls off, the price of the phone will also fall down a bit. Be prepared, however, that drops in price will hardly be significant as Nokia N95 will continue to be the best phone in the world for a while and will thus manage to easily maintain its price.”

“Nobody was more psyched about the N95 than I was. After all, this was to be the phone to end all phones: A 5-megapixel camera with auto focus and Zeiss optics, Wi-Fi, HSDPA, a swank dual-direction slide, and friggin' GPS! Then I finally got one, waved bon voyage to the old Joe Brown and set off to become Convergence Man, armed with the power of the ultimate megagadget. Ten days later I am still old Joe Brown. Convergence Man got his ass kicked by reality: the phone has HSDPA, but not if you live in the US. The camera is Phat City, but its shutter lag is almost long enough for the subject to rush out of frame, grab a pizza, slip back in and resume his pose. The GPS works great—if there are no buildings around, and, despite a beefed-up processor, the Symbian S60 operating system is slower than a tar-footed giant sloth on a hot sidewalk. Don't get me wrong: the N95 is the best phone I've ever had. It just doesn't quite measure up to all the fuss.WIRED Surprisingly lightweight. Ability to rotate screen orientation makes small-screen Web browsing much less annoying. Comes with a 2-gig micro SD card. Hard buttons for media player, camera, and gallery free up soft-key shortcuts. 3.5-milimeter-headphone jack. Stereo speakers blast the G'NR, baby!TIRED Photos slightly grainy at full-res. Dual slide means that, regardless of the way you position it in your pocket, random numbers regularly get dialed by accident. Insufficient memory to support multiple applications or complicated websites (like, for example, cnn.com.) We couldn't get a GPS signal after standing on a NYC street corner for 15 minutes. Turn-by-turn navigation costs $10 a month!”

“The N95 is certainly packed with features, but more isn’t necessarily better. The phone is large, its software seemed to run a bit slow at times, the build quality is not that good, battery life is poor and the GPS antenna was not as efficient as some. On contract it might be attractive, but SIM free it’s vastly overpriced.”

“The N95 is one of the most feature-packed phones money can buy. Its biggest asset is a 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics for taking the sharpest, most vivid pics you'll get from a phone (though autofocus is quite slow). Also notable is the Transformer-esque two-way slider design — a keypad glides out of the bottom, and music controls slip out the top — for switching between phone and media player (and for making you feel like Morpheus).WIRED: Huge 2.6-inch screen. Records 30-fps video. Extras galore: 3.5-mm headphone jack, TV output connector, infrared port, Wi-Fi, GPS, FM radio, and 1-GB memory card.TIRED: Fattest in this bunch (0.8 inch). Lags when you open media player. Standby mode saps battery charge. And you thought the first iPhones were expensive?”