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I broke down, or should I say, I am now broke!

Today, I called my buddy at his cell phone store, he called his wholesaler, who let me drive over and buy it directly from him and now I am the proud non sony erricson owner of a brand new

Nokia N95 8BG!

After reading all the specs, it seems to have EVERYTHING I wanted so I thought I would give it a try and if it does suck I can return it to the dealer who offers a 14 day return policy.

He charged me $725 out the door, phone and all accessories including a brand new Nokia 95 leather case and a brand new nokia car charger too. (he did not have any extra batteries, which I would like or the cordless keyboard either)

anyway, here are the specs. The phone is charging so I have not played with it all yet but I will later tonight and report back....

General Network HSDPA / GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
Announced 2007, August
Status Available
Size Dimensions 99 x 53 x 21 mm, 96 cc
Weight 129 g
Display Type TFT, 16M colors
Size 240 x 320 pixels, 2.8 inches
Ringtones Type Polyphonic (64 channels), Monophonic, True Tones, MP3
Customization Download
Vibration Yes
Memory Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records Detailed, max 30 days
Card slot No
- 8 GB internal memory
Data GPRS Class 32, 107 / 64.2 kbps
HSCSD Yes
EDGE Class 32, 296 kbps; DTM Class 11, 177 kbps
3G HSDPA
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, UPnP technology
Bluetooth Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
Infrared port Yes
USB Yes, v2.0 miniUSB
Features OS Symbian OS 9.2, S60 rel. 3.1
Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
Games Downloadable, order now
Colors Black
Camera 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, video(VGA 30fps), flash; secondary CIF videocall camera
- Built-in GPS navigation
- Installed Maps application covering over 100 countries
- Dual slide design
- Java MIDP 2.0
- MP3/AAC/AAC+/eAAC+/WMA player
- 3.5 mm audio output jack
- TV out
- Stereo FM Radio
- Organiser
- Office document viewer
- T9
- Push to talk
- Voice dial/memo
- Built-in handsfree
Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion 1200mAH (BL-6F)
Stand-by Up to 280 h
Talk time Up to 6 h


BTW - this is an US version and comes with a full one year nokia warranty directly from Nokia USA if it gives me any problems.

thanks for all the imput!

I am kind of bummed it is not a Sony!

[ This Message was edited by: pblocal on 2007-11-09 02:13 ]
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Posted: 2007-11-09 03:10:18
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congratulations for your new phone, was a good choice
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Posted: 2007-11-09 03:57:14
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OMFG

It’s going to take me three weeks just to figure out how to use this thing!

I have been reading the manual for three hours, have a headache and feel like I have only learned a couple of things about this thing.

DAM, I never thought a cell phone could be so dam difficult.

Technology.....

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Posted: 2007-11-09 07:44:06
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@pblocal:

SE P1i would have been indeed a great choice had it has EDGE which is your country's connectivity standard. BUT it has WLAN! and it is Sony Ericsson

what you have now is still a great handset though. just go around the usual Nokia intricateness and in a few days time, you will be on a roll and would be enjoying the N95 to the max!

cheers! and welcome to Esato, mate!
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Posted: 2007-11-09 11:05:52
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are you serious???

P1 coukd ha been a good phone. but the n95 8g is hellagud!!!!

you can become a hacker just learning everything of the instructions!!!!! jajaj

good luck and good thing you returned your Iphone.
american cellphone are just too 2 years back!!!!! 2MP no focus ?? plz !!!!
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Posted: 2007-11-09 17:38:07
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so the phone is all dialed in now and working well.

it has a few new things that I did not know before i purchased it so I will let you all know.

it has a cord/jack that connects it to the TV. anything playing on the phone, appears full size on the TV!

When it rings, it is on the TV, the voice on the other end, on the TV!

The videos it takes, shown on the tv is actually very good in large size. I have a 65" widescreen and the video looks good on it. I was definitely impressed.

Pictures, well, I need to work on that. I am a professional photographer so, obviously, it is not what I am used to but I will play with the settings and see if I can get them better.

I will post some picks and videos here soon to show you all but so far I am impressed with it.

One potential problem is the sliding video screen that opens up to the music controls or the numeric key pad. I am definitely worried that I will F' it up in no time. I prefer the candy bar style over this for sure. I guess only time will tell.....
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Posted: 2007-11-11 10:24:41
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oh yeah, almost forgot.

it has "internet phone"

I travel alot so this is good. When overseas, you can walk into a "hot spot", log on and make a call from the handset, over the internet, back to the states for something like 3 cents a minute with the VoP, prepaid minutes. Its just real cool that you can do it from your cell phone instead of having to find a place that offers it.

T-Mobile, usa, charges any where from .99 cents in western europe to $2.99 (a minute) in places in S. and Central America to make calls from overseas to the US over on their cell lines!

Now I can avoid those obviously ridiculous costs! Yea hoooooo!

[ This Message was edited by: pblocal on 2007-11-11 09:29 ]

[ This Message was edited by: pblocal on 2007-11-11 09:30 ]
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Posted: 2007-11-11 10:27:48
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congrats mate,but i still prefer s.e.!btw can n95 8gb move animations on wallpaper?can separate video from pics?just ask nhf sorry for bad english
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Posted: 2007-11-11 19:43:00
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not sure what you are asking.

videos and pictures are together but you can mark them and move them into seperate folders.

One new thing I recently figured out.

It has voice navigation, comes on the phone, no extra cost, and it works excellent!

I had to go across town today to a location I have never been so I used the Nav. and it gave me a detailed map and 750 meters before every turn the womans voice would come on and say, "in 750 meters turn right" "in 500 meters turn right" "In ..." "Turn right now" and I was ten meters from the corner.

Works great. I even loaded the maps of the countries I will be traveling too next month, Costa Rica and Brazil. No cabbie will EVER take me for a ride again!
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Posted: 2007-11-15 08:07:08
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