The Nokia N95 8GB is the most recent iteration of the much-hyped Nokia Smartphone. This model is now being carried officially in Canada by Rogers and they’ve recently dropped the price to $199 for a 3-year contract to match the Apple iPhone 3G. Nokia bills the N95 as “Canada’s Smartest Smartphone”. I don’t know about that, but it’s still a pretty good phone as you’ll see. This is a service that allows uPnP devices hooked up to a WiFi network to be used to play various types of media.
When you are connected to a WiFi network you can stream audio and video from the N95 directly to one of these Home Media devices. The N95 comes with native support for iMAP/POP3/SMTP mail clients (3rd party software is available for Microsoft Exchange support). The email system is integrated into the operating system, and so many applications have direct access to sending their content as email attachments if you so choose.
The provided Nokia web browser is actually pretty decent, though it certainly doesn't look as good as Safari provided in the iPhone. Like many phone-based browsers you have the option of displaying pages in their true representation, or reformatted to be friendlier to the small screens. I personally prefer the reformatted mode for most pages, though some work best when displayed in their native format.
It took me a while to warm up to it, but I got to like the N95 so much during the trial that I decided to buy one for myself. I got mine through Treatz, who many people know well from Howard Forums. I've long been a fan of Nokia phones, but over the last few years they've managed to produce far too many phones that just didn't click with me. Not so with the N95.
I would have preferred a slightly more comfortable earpiece, slightly richer sound, a better keypad, and maybe a kick-ass user interface like on the iPhone, but overall I can’t think of much else I don’t like. Just the excellent camera and video recording functionality of the device alone are almost enough to be worth the price of admission, especially at just $200.
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