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Re: The better iPhone: Nokia N95?

venkat2009 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:42:35 -0000

In My Point Of view Nokia N95 Model Mobile Is better than the I-Phone.I am Using the Mobile Since 6 months..Nice Mobile easily I was Unlocked It..So Nokia Mobile is Better.

Re: The better iPhone: Nokia N95?

001101 — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:32:58 -0000

"Call me crazy, or wrong, or just plain stupid."

How about all of the above?

Re: The better iPhone: Nokia N95?

minamito — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:19:57 -0000

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Re: The better iPhone: Nokia N95?

eMax — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:46:57 -0000

Hahahahaha:

"Your defence of the iPhone is ridiculous and fallacious. Firstly, you compare the phone to a BlackBerry Pearl, which is a second-rate mobile device. Even more second-rate than your ability to effectively argue your case for the iPhone.
When you compare the phone to a Nokia enterprise mobile device, the iPhone is little more than a fashion accessory for every spoilt middle class twit, which is why Paris Hilton uses one. The Apple iPhone is all about the interface, just as Paris is all about the interface, and both lack what it takes to perform necessary office procedures. The Apple iPhone cannot even create and edit documents let alone support 3rd party applications like games or say an integrated library system.
Secondly, you resort to rhetoric - i.e. intellectual cowardice - to dismiss the function of multiple SMS (for poker players and teenagers, apparently). If you want to generalise the demographics of mobile device users, look no further than your own applause for YouTube integration on the iPhone. YouTube is saturated with videos BY f---wits FOR f---wits. And while iTunes is a great database application, the iTunes Store is for imbeciles who "choose" to listen to what the store "chooses" to make available - it's little more than socialised mediocrity. That countless idiotic schoolboys and sociopaths often argue that people only critique the phone if they can't afford it, shows that despite your "...since I'm not 16..." argument is simply futile because, well, shall we say you're in "good" company.
Indeed, the iPhone is very user-friendly (if Paris can use one, I'm not in the least bit surprised your 3 year old can engage with the phone to some extent) but perhaps this is because Apple think Apple consumers are incapable of reading manuals. Perhaps it is because Apple think Apple consumers are too busy enjoying their inane videos on YouTube to care to read at all.
Gmail, Google Maps, the internet and assorted applications work effortlessly on my mobile device. Anyone who bought the hype surrounding the Apple iPhone only demonstrates their own limited experience with smartphones and PDAs. I suggest you replace your Apple iPhone with a textbook showing you how to identify media hype and the discourse of marketing."

Re: The better iPhone: Nokia N95?

Kevin — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:21:00 -0000

So, I'm back after nearly 6 months (Post 50 refers).
The iPhone is out and available - I Like Apple products, but I'm just not interested.
N95 wins hands down.
I've heard too many features I'm now used to being unavailable in the iPhone.

Re: The better iPhone: Nokia N95?

Jeremiah Owyang — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:48:28 -0000

Thanks bud

Re: The better iPhone: Nokia N95?

Robert Scoble — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 16:15:45 -0000

I'm on AT&T with the 3G network. It works. Not sure it's the best. But I have one bill with all my iPhones (three in the family right now) and my Nokia so it makes things easier.

Re: The better iPhone: Nokia N95?

Jeremiah Owyang — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 16:13:05 -0000

Robert

Who is your carrier for your N95 (Charlene just gave me one) and do you recommend them?

You could respond on Twitter too

http://twitter.com/jowyang/...

Re: The better iPhone: Nokia N95?

Christian Orderud — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 08:29:42 -0000

For those who want a qwerty-keyboard for the Nokia N95(or other S60-smartphones), Nokia sells a colapsable wireless qwerty-keyboard of a size that compares to the size of most laptop keyboards.

Review here:
http://www.mobileburn.com/r...

Re: The better iPhone: Nokia N95?

nag — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 05:14:47 -0000

hiii,i bought a nokia n95 with all options in italy now i want to change that to english,what i have to do know to get options in english

Re: The better iPhone: Nokia N95?

Ross — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 13:16:11 -0000

Give me a break. You can actually comare the iPhone to the Nokia? This just seems stupid. Regardless of another phone having 3G or this or that you seem to be forgetting something so basic and truely human. USING IT. Why do you think the iPod has the weight it does? Because FINALLY a device Humans can actually use! A device that actually makes sence. After just looking at the Nokia, and having Nokia's all my life, and considering what a kick in the balls using their interface is. Please cut the crap. iPhone has been onsale and already kicks ass in every way that matters. These wayse being that people can actually use it. These are the things that matter. Having 3G is nice but if using it sucks it isn't worth crap.

Re: The better iPhone: Nokia N95?

Johnny Hill — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:49:56 -0000

The Nokia n95 is such a good phone. I recently had trouble with using the GPS Navigation. However it turned out that i, 1. needed to be in a "3 mobile area" and 2. Needed to leave the phone on my dash for a few minutes before moving. This phone has so many features. I dont think the apple iphone will be as good. It might look cool, and have some great marketing, but apple have never made a mobile phone before, and i dont think they will get it right first time. Plus the specs show the nokia n95 would kick its a$$ anyway. I recommend the n95 to all.

Re: The better iPhone: Nokia N95?

delvee — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:34:35 -0000

Don,

Sorry to hear that. I think John's point is correct. We now need to get real world phone iPhoneWorld (My Trademark now on :) or N100 which works well regardless the region the phone is used.

Any early experience sites on web about iPhone?

BR,
DV

Re: The better iPhone: Nokia N95?

John — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:17:33 -0000

Don, I think you're out of luck for the moment. The 3G network that Cingular/AT&T installed doesn't use the same frequency that the rest of the world uses for UMTS, and the N95 currently only supports the standard frequency, not the US-specific one. Mine worked fine all over Europe, but has never managed to get onto a 3G network here in the US.

There is a rumour that there will be a version of the N95 that does support the AT&T special UMTS frequency, but I don't know how reliable that is, nor was there a timeframe associated with it.

Since there's no chance of the standard frequency being available in the US, I'm just hoping that the radio in the N95 is software upgradeable to support the US frequency when they have that working!

Re: The better iPhone: Nokia N95?

Don — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:33:08 -0000

3G not working on N-95. I purchased my N95 last week direct from Nokia (us version) Cingular programed it but I cannot connect on the 3G network in the Los Angeles areas that provide a good 3G signal. The sim card they installed is a 3G card. Any idea what other steps I can take? I will have to cancil my service and return to Nokia since I cannot get it working on the high speed 3G network (all settings seem to be correct according to the Cingular technitions. Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks. Don

Re: The better iPhone: Nokia N95?

delvee — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:25:54 -0000

Funny discussion topic. Comparison between expectations and real product is never fair, but that I do not see to be the point either on some comments.

Apple people will love Apple products even if those would be such disappointments technically, but the strong point is that you look cool walking with the new iPhone. Nokia people are more engineering oriented who like to tweak the phone the way it has been used since the wire was cut down from phones.

I think technical analysis does not help but let's think the few lines:

- Why you would choose either one of the phones?
- What you are really going to do with it?

I think it is smart to ask "why" you want the new phone.

For same price you can get laptop if you want to surf internet.
For the same price you can get better cameras.
For the same price you can get global navigation system.

So price is not the issue, it is for what you target to use the "phone".

Both of the devices are for sure absolutely marevelous (even I have great doubts for new phone supplier, even if HW is outsourced) but to list couple of observations:

N95 Pro's:
- Outstanding camera which could replace the typical lower cost pocket camera.
- Good enough GPS to guide you home or show your location.
- High datarates if your network supports it.
- Desinged to be used globally not in one country only.
- Track record of durable products and global support.
- 3rd Party software

N95 minuses:
- Battery life low (depending what you do with the device)
- Fair performance, could be better.
- Ugly, clumsy user interface inherited from early 90's.

iPhone Pro's:
- Desing product for Apple life people.
- (Assumed) great user interface but not proven.
- Great co-operation with US service provider(s) and modified network services.

iPhone minuses:
- Not proven phone maker.
- Targeted to single market area at first (to test concept).
- No high speed data rate even if network supports.
- Is this phone or PDA? What happens to iPod NANO?
- Small memory capasity.
- Not proven performance and battery life.

All in all, we need to see iPhones before saying how mature the product is. N95 you can buy today with all its good and bad siders (yes, it used to crash even during 3GSM, where as Apple didn't even give the phone for testing).

It is all up to you. What do you want?

Re: The better iPhone: Nokia N95?

John — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:00:37 -0000

Hey Robert,

Now you have Wi-Fi in your phone you can install Devicescape on it and play with automatic hotspot login as well. I just got back from a couple of weeks touring northern Europe with the N95 as my primary internet access device, and as my digital camera (didn't want to carry the 20D on the trip since I had so much other stuff with me).

There are still a few bugs, though the recent firmware update has fixed a lot of things (including faster camera response). I used the SIP stack for all my calls back to the US during the trip, uploaded photos to Flickr as I went around (unfortunately not with geo-tags as I hadn't installed ShoZu) and read emails and news online. I even used the GPS a few times...

Re: The better iPhone: Nokia N95?

Sp00k — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:30:48 -0000

The Apple iPhone, like the Apple iPod has one major advantage over the N95. This is something that the Nokia N95 doesn't have, nor will it ever have I fear.

Apple has a Massive, Supremely Efficient Marketing Arm.

They entered the portable mp3 player market with an 'average' product, rather later in the day than many iPod fans may realise, several years after the first players were available, Today, in the eyes of the general public, iPod is the generic term for an mp3-player... an incredible achievement in advertising!

They will obviously attempt a similar feat with the iPhone... They've already termed it a 'smartphone', whereas, if the current iPhone specs are to be believed, it's an extremely dumb smartphone... Have I coined a new oxymoron there, I wonder? ;)

Should the iPhone be accepted as a 'smartphone', then there will need to be a new classification... perhaps 'geniusphone'?

I leave it to you to decide which phone fits into that particular bracket... It most certainly doesn't display a chewed fruit as its company logo though!

Re: The better iPhone: Nokia N95?

Thomson — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 04:04:25 -0000

I can only say that i love my N95 ofcorse iPhone look cool but for me N95 are much better with all gadget things.

Re: The better iPhone: Nokia N95?

bill — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:57:32 -0000

You haven't even touched the surface of the N95.

* Replaceable battery
* Swappable SIMs
* TV-Out
* 3D Hardware Acceleration.

Re: The better iPhone: Nokia N95?

mavr — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:39:50 -0000

I may have to get me one of these. Sounds like a pretty good phone.

Re: The better iPhone: Nokia N95?

pseudofinn — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:12:17 -0000

This is a ridiculous discussion. The iPhone is no where near the same level as the N95. There is no sense comparing the two. Each have their place, but if this discussion is going to exist, there is a clear winner- despite which device will sell more units.

Fanboys.

Re: The better iPhone: Nokia N95?

Rocky — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 06:33:36 -0000

Hi, how much it?

Re: The better iPhone: Nokia N95?

Juddie — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:13:51 -0000

iphone looks a bit big for my liking. We'll have to see when it comes out.

Re: The better iPhone: Nokia N95?

Jim Jonze — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 20:28:58 -0000

Nick,

The N95 supports direct uploading of pictures to Flickr. The setup is a little tricky (you really need the help page at Flickr because the phone's passowrd is different than your usual account password), but once you have it set up it can very seamlessly upload your pictures on the go via WiFi or 3G (EDGE uploading is a bit painful).