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Great answers, thank you very much!
If you are trying VoIP on your N95, please try FRING also.

You are not sure if it is a hardware prototype? Well, look under the battery. If it says proto, it is a proto. If not, it is not.

Yes, it is a proto device. But I'm not sure how "final" the hardware is. Sorry for writing ambiguously...

Thanks for the info Tommi. I'm just hoping that a test period of something like this is indicative of some fairly heavy use! If I have to charge the battery every night that's fine with me as long as I don't run out of juice before I get home.

Basically I want to drive fast over long distances, and I don't want to get stranded 10 miles from home!

Tommi:

easy way to check continuous auto focus:

grab a book, open it to any page, start recording from far away then move the n95 closer and closer to the text. does it automatically focus in to remain sharp or is it blurry still like the nokia n93?

Hmm, I'm astonished by the car analogy when it comes to battery life. Yes, many people do buy cars based on their mileage and efficiency. And when it comes to phones, many people do expect a phone to last some time before charging is required. The N95 will end up, like any other phone, to be sold to non-geeks who will have a hard time understanding a daily charge requirement.

In this, it is unfortunately known that the times given by Nokia regarding standby and talking time are utterly false for some models like, e.g., the N80. It seems that N95 comes with 950mAh which is quite embarrassing for a smartphone of such feature breadth. Hiding this behind "energy-efficient sports car" type of comments reads probably much different than soon-to-be-read comments on news groups on this.

Don't get me wrong. I do have an N80 and love the phone. But I don't like to be fooled with nonsense numbers on standby and talking. Honesty and the desire to change this in future models is what I would have loved to see. 950mAh for the N95 does not sound to me like it, sorry.

Anonymous, well, even if you would be happy with a thicker/bigger phone (that's what a higher capacity battery would mean), it does not mean that the non-geek buyers (i.e. most of the potential buyers, i.e. "the target market") that you refer to, would be. I recall all the bitching and moaning about how "horribly thick the N80 is".. even by the geeks. :)

Second, the average non-geek user will probably do some heavy use for the fist 3-4 weeks. After that, usage of most features will brobably drop dramatically. Yes, they may still need to charge it every other day or even every day.

It would be fun/funny (which?) if Nokia released a "hunch back battery" for some phones like they did back in the days of 3110 etc. :D

Q: Is it true that 3rd party applications THAT ARE NOT SYMBIAN-SIGNED can't use gps in gps enabled smartphones?

A: It's absolutely true.

Tommi,

I also have concern regarding this GPS usage issue.

It's stated that Symbian-Signed apps that can use the Location API CAN use the GPS, right? For instance, with Nav4All (free java gps app) I can either tell it to search for a bluetooth GPS or use the internal, and when I use the internal one, it asks me on startup if I want to allow access to the Location services.

Can you give specific examples of apps that wouldn't be able to use it? Can TomTom use the GPS? Can Nav4All? Can amAze?

Posted by: Ricky Cadden | February 20, 2007 06:24 PM

1. Will the gps route plan show left, right and u-turn arrows or auto re-route without paying for the extra voice guided service?

2. Is there anyway we can search for youtube videos or any other videofeed or RSS feed?

> Yes, many people do buy cars based on their mileage and efficiency.

Exactly. But nobody buys cars based on "the time the gas tank lasts". That was exactly my point. I think N95 has good mileage and efficiency, but since it attracts heavy usage, it may run out of battery faster than models that you don't use as much.

Anyway, I understand your concerns fully, and naturally agree that decent battery life, time-wise, is absolutely critical for a mobile device. It's not that easy to achieve in practice, though. Battery technology doesn't advance as fast as the other technologies in mobile devices. Some innovations would be welcome here.

Hi, thanks for this Q & A section.

I have one question about the RAM available on the Nokia N95. I have searched everywhere and the only details that I get are for the phone memory. Anyone knows what is the maximum RAM that the phone has, because Nokia have been churning out great phones with too little RAM to run more than 2 applications simultaneously. Just wanted to know this detail.

Do the pictures taken with the camera carry GPS EXIF data?

OK, let me comment on this car analogy.

Can I put it this way; think of a sports car from late 80's with a gas tank of 30 litres, and then think of 21st century sports car with an engine at least twice as stronger, with turbo and whatnot, and with a gas tank of STILL just 30 litres. It is a fact that batteries aren't being at all developed to match the functionality and power consumption of newer phones. If I am not mistaken, 3210 had 1100 mAH battery, and that was, like, 8 years ago or so? And here we have N95 with 950 mAh. Am I the only one who sees this? As far as the weight argument goes, I have no problem with it, and I know a lot of people that wouldn't mind carrying few grams extra if that would provide extra energy. Problem is going on trip, off to woods, watching sports events or whatever, you have to sustain from taking photos, sending MMS or whatever, because you know you'll end up with your battery dead at the end of the day, and you never know what can happen, you'll probably need your phone.

In any case, I am very dissatisfied with batteries. N80 battery is a joke, and not a funny one :-( N95 is no better, either.

"It is a fact that batteries aren't being at all developed to match the functionality and power consumption of newer phones."

Well... I would think it is fairly safe to say that battery manufacturers are working hard to develop affordable, higher capacity + small size batteries. It's probably just not as easy as one might think. Although they have made huge strides.

hi quick question does anyone know how much nokia n95 will cost when it comes out

I'll have to repeat myself :-)
I don't care how big or small is my battery, as long as it provides me (or my phone, rather) with sufficient power.
I had my 6310i with 1100 mAh Li-Po battery, which Nokia advertised as Ultra Slim :-) Now, x years later, I have E50, roughly the same in dimensions and size as 6310i, with Li-Ion battery of just 800-900 mAh. I've seen so many specifications for BL-5C, depending on phone in which it's being used, it seems like no-one really knows it's capacity :-) So, where is all that progress? Yeah, we do have smaller batteries (who cares?) with **smaller** capacity and with no significant (if any) price drop when buying a new battery, or phone, for that matter.
Sorry if I made this too long, I just can't accept the fact that Nxx have the same capacity (or less!) as the 3210. Period.

Does the N95 have a different tone for the keypad tone in ANY of the menus?

Though this doesn't seem to interest any of the other N95 enthusiasts, I am one of a dying breed of users that still likes to keep those tones on and am curious if they have changed it with FP1 or just the N95. The video posted on symbianfreak.com shows a demo of SRE, but there's also a few seconds where Teo navigates through one of the menus and the tones sound quite different and I'd like another user to be able to confirm this.

AS far as batteries go in these new devices, I will agree that 950 mAh just isn't enough for the N95. Nokia could've just as easily used the 1100 mAh BP-6M used in the N73 without compromising anymore space than they already have. The flip side though, is that the WLAN use is a huge factor between the N73 and the N95. I'd be curious to find out how well the N80 and the N95 perform on a full charge without using the WLAN at all. Even laptops don't last all too long with their batteries while using a WLAN connection, so I don't know if the demand for the N95 to perform any better is fair. Though, as I said, the BP-6M certainly would've helped at least a little bit.

Does the N95 have a different tone for the keypad tone in ANY of the menus?

Though this doesn't seem to interest any of the other N95 enthusiasts, I am one of a dying breed of users that still likes to keep those tones on and am curious if they have changed it with FP1 or just the N95. The video posted on symbianfreak.com shows a demo of SRE, but there's also a few seconds where Teo navigates through one of the menus and the tones sound quite different and I'd like another user to be able to confirm this.

AS far as batteries go in these new devices, I will agree that 950 mAh just isn't enough for the N95. Nokia could've just as easily used the 1100 mAh BP-6M used in the N73 without compromising anymore space than they already have. The flip side though, is that the WLAN use is a huge factor between the N73 and the N95. I'd be curious to find out how well the N80 and the N95 perform on a full charge without using the WLAN at all. Even laptops don't last all too long with their batteries while using a WLAN connection, so I don't know if the demand for the N95 to perform any better is fair. Though, as I said, the BP-6M certainly would've helped at least a little bit.

I've brought proto N95 home to my 19 and 14 year old sons the other day. All I can say is that they are still drooling ...WOW, what a device!!
BTW - for all of the folks (especially North Americans) who don't/can't seem to understand that Nokia's N-series devices are a bit bigger than "razors, etc" here is my response to the comment "THAT'S A BIG PHONE!" Respond by simply saying "It's not a phone, it's a computer". Stops 'em in their tracks!

I have a few un answered questions.

1) Have any carriers picked this phone up? if so which?
2) how much is it going to cost?

3) is there any news on a release date in north america?

Dbob: I don't know, and even if I did, I'm not sure if I would be allowed tell. Sorry.

Tommi, I actually have a question for the 6110 and N95 - do these phones automatically geo-tag photos?

I asked Darla this and her N95 proto bombed when she tried, so here's my 2-part question:

1. is it realistic, with the N95's battery, to walk around all day with GPS enabled?

2. If number one is doable, then when you snap a picture with GPS on, and then upload it to say, Flickr, is the photo geo-tagged automatically?

Posted by: Ricky Cadden | February 26, 2007 03:48 PM

Does it have image stabilizer?

JaviC and Ricky: I don't know about automatic geo-tagging. If I view the EXIF data of my N95 pictures, however, I don't see GPS info. I think it would be ultra-cool, though, if we could make this work automatically. See:
http://www.janchipchase.com/blog/archives/2007/02/geocache_love_g.html

I don't seem to have time to answers all of your questions properly, I'm sorry... Feel free to ask whatever you want, but don't expect me to reply :)

Thanks for your time, Tommi, but what's the use of a Q&A without the A?

> what's the use of a Q&A without the A?

Sometimes, I have noticed, the other readers (people wiser than me) reply to your questions better than I could have ever replied.

There you have the A.

> Does the N95 have a different tone for
> the keypad tone in ANY of the menus?

I haven't noticed that. Keypad tones, if you use them, seem to be same as before.

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