I can easily see why it’s so attractive to become an Apple fanboy. The gorgeous, sexy looking hardware, the sense of community and the general disgust of Microsoft. I too have recently bought a MacBook so i know how appealing Apple products can be.
When I first held an iPhone, I have to admit that I was mesmerised. The perfect weight, the touchscreen, web browsing and Google maps - all in one device! But what’s this? £169 pounds on an 18 month contract at a minimum of £35 per month, no thanks. If like me you can’t quite afford an iPhone then get yourself an Nokia N95 8GB. It simply has everything a 3g iPhone has and more. What it lacks in touchscreen it makes up for in tactile feedback.
Anyway, the things I’m most impressed with by my new phone are being able to upload straight to Flickr at a touch of a button after taking amazing looking photos thanks to the 5 mega-pixel Carl Zeis camera. Another amazing feature is using Sports tracker which uses the built in GPS to calculate how many miles you have covered during exercise outdoors, but most impressive is being able to upload the data into Google Maps which will so the route you have taken.
Applications like Mobitubia allows you to stream youTube content onto your phone and even allow you to save them on your phone for offline viewing. Also, the ever impressive looking N-gage platform looks like it will provide some hours of entertainment value.
To compete with iPhone, Nokia has increased the storage space to 8gb. Plenty for music, videos and photos. The music player is impressive and adequate enough for me. Anyway, this isn’t meant to be a review of my phone, if you want to find out more visit Nokia.
To finish off the post, I feel phones like this are quite important tools for web designers. Having a decent camera in my pocket at all times is handy and being able to surf the internet anytime either using 3g or WiFi is liberating.
I think that Nokia N95 8GB is the best mobile phone i have ever seen. Its technical characteristics are more then impressive. But one thing borders me, its to high price. It could be a little lower, but everything else is just fascinating.
Yes, one thing i didn’t mention was that I got my phone for free on o2 online paying £35 per week.
I’ve got the HTC Touch Cruise since 8 months, and it rocks too !
the new HTC Diamond is absolutely fantastique… maybe my next mobile
The N95 8gb is a good phone I can’t deny that but it pales into insignificance when compared to an iphone. If you want to use your phone like a computer then get a computer with a phone added as the iphone so obviously is, and not a phone trying to be a computer which the N95 struggles to achieve.