N95. Absolutely fantastic

I had a chance to play around with a prototype of the Nokia N95 at the Adobe Usergroup meeting last evening. It totally blew me away. It’s really the first phone – err, sorry – multimedia device as they call them that can’t wait to hit the shelves.

It’s the first S60 device that has a fast enough processor to make using the phone fluent, nice hardware-accelerated graphics for smooth transitions and animations and a whopping 5 megapix camera and decent mp3 player.

But the best thing is it’s GPS. When I first heard that the N95 was going to have map-software I thought that it would be painfully slow. But hey, they managed to put Google Earth into a device that is really small. It’s 3D, looks good, renders fast and fetches detailed imaginery while you’re zooming in. I don’t know which countries their backend supports (I heard that it would be many), but I had no problem fetching a route from Helsinki to Turku.

Really, you gotta look out for this one. Truly remarkable.

Uh, and it has Flash Lite 2.0 installed.

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  felix October 6, 2006 at 20:20

  GPS + camera + mp3 player + phone – holy crap! When does it come out? How much?

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  ayoub October 7, 2006 at 00:24

  salut

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  Tuomas Artman October 7, 2006 at 11:49

  Hi felix,
  The N95 is going to be available early next year, with an estimated 550 euro streetprice.

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