While it shares even with the Nokia N80 in terms of both drawing and functionality, Nokia's N95, the paragraph of this review, takes the capabilities of a animated telephone to a advanced level. On paper, at least, there appears to be mini that this Finnish marveling can't do. It has quad-band GSM/EDGE cooperate and 2100MHz UMTS as hearty as a 5 megapixel car locus camera, a built-in GPS receiver, Bluetooth stereo support, and 802.11b/g WLAN support.

Considering all the features that are packed into the Nokia N95, you'd comprehend it would be a boss hefty phone, however not so, my friends. The N95 measures a compact 3.8 inches continued by 2.1 inches broad by 0.8 inch thick and weighs onliest 4.2 ounces. It feels comfortable to hold, and the soft-touch stop on the back of the slogan makes it easier to grip. That said, we couldn't guidance on the other hand determine that the ring felt, well, all heart of cheap. In particular, the front insert felt plasticky and rickety (more on this below). From an esthetic standpoint, the N95 certainly falls amassed into the short and stocky sort rather than svelte and sexy, nevertheless we expect it's even a elegant bell with its plum-and-silver colour scheme.

The GPS is in fact GPS, not some assisted-GPS that Dash and Verizon get in their phones. That money you can de facto navigate with it, prize I did, to streets sorrounding SF I wasn't as well recognized with. (Specifically, the corner of Washington and Cherry, hurried to where the Zodiac killer blew gone a Cabbie so frequent senescence ago.) The end of game database is sizable and you can search for matters by proximity (the nearest ATM or liquor store), and then pay for the phone dialling due up. Turn by turn is a subscription that'll valuation you approximately $10 a month, and the shout nave won't scan street names, on the contrary that, and the phone's persistent Delay aside, it rocks.

Other features comprise finding the nearest stop in a positive category from a Aim Of Counsel database (e.g. finding your nearest typical transport station), storing landmarks (favourite locations), and switching to darkness colours. Maps is a exact impressive application, which we testament be covering in enhanced circumstance later. In use, I endow the GPS took a uncommon minutes to 'lock on' when inside (next to a window) from a biting start; elsewhere it was all the more quicker, as expected, and soft starts were faster yet (a trouble of a sporadic seconds). A subjective headmost idea suggests the N95 has coincidental capabilities to SIRF II GPS chipsets. As with any GPS, performance will vary on your aim and measure of visibility of satellites.

Features of the Nokia N95 include:

* Series 60 Symbian interface (version 3.1)
* 5 megapixel camera (2592 x 1944 pixels) with Carl Zeiss optics, Tessar lens, auto focus, brilliance (auto redeye reduction), 20x digital zoom
* Video camera: MPEG4/3GP VGA video receive at 640 x 480 pixels and 30 frames/second with digital stereo microphone (AAC format) and 10x digital zoom
* Front camera for video calling: CIF resolution (352 x 288 pixels)
* Video and all the more figure editors
* Display: TFT, 16 million colours, 240 x 320 pixels (2.6 inches)
* Digital folk player (supports MP3/AAC/AAC+/eAAC+/WMA/M4A formats)
* Stereo FM radio with Visual Radio support
* Built-in GPS navigation
* Speaker independent agnomen dialing
* Intonation commands
* Delivery recorder
* Integrated hands-free speaker
* Hurry dialing
* Java games
* Memory: 160 Mbytes plus microSD recall card slot (4 Gbytes or 8 Gbytes)
* Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, Infrared, TV-Out, WLAN (802.11 b/g), 3.5 mm stereo headphone plug
* Virgin contacts database with brace for multiple phone and e-mail details per entry
* Logs: dialed, received, and missed calls
* WAP, EGPRS congregation B, WCDMA/HSDPA (3.6Mb/s download)
* Size: 99 x 53 x 21 mm
* Weight: 120g
* Battery standby: 215 hours