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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

It's been seven hours and sixteen days....

Like Sinead O'connor's song "Nothing compares to you"...however in this case it's been more like almost two years but our belover N95 is going strong. Today after uploading some pictures to Flickr I started browsing EXIF data and found some interesting news.

Basically after almost 20 months since the original launch date (November 2006) Nokia N95 is still one of the most powerful devices on the market. Sure there's N82 which is a beauty as well (I had a pleasure of testing the device a few months ago thanks to the courtesy of WOM World) but the camera is downgraded to 3.2 MP. If you look at the below chart N95 is the MOST popular device in Nokia line-up of camera phones. There have been a few devices launched after however none of them seem to be as popular. And let's face it with the latest firmware updates on N95 it's one snappy phone. Even the original N95-1 (aka Euro version) which had a POOR battery life and was as speedy as the first digital cameras with shutter lag of 5+ seconds got the update and is now on par with the current N95-3 and N95-8GB due to on-demand paging and in general a better memory management. Sinply said - N95 still rocks despite the fact that by now according to mobile trends it should've been long forgotten (Average user replaces their phone every 18 months) but us geeks..well..we do it more like every 2-3 months. If you look at the chart below; that's another story.

iPhone is one shi**y device in my opinion. Sure - it has a gorgeous design and a nicely polished GUI but that's about it. Under that GUI it can't send an MMS, no copy / paste, still no HSDPA and it's locked tighter than medieval chastity belt.
. After almost two years N95 is on TOP. It may be #2 after iPhone however i highly doubt iPhone will even be listed on this chart in two years. First of all it takes rather BAD pictures unless you hold it absolutely still and second...the obvious..in two years that same iPhone will be DEAD due to the fact that its battery is not user replacable. So Hail to N95. Our Good old friend. Old doesn't mean bad.

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Leak: FIRST S60 VGA! Screenshot leaked! (update: landscape screens added)

It finnally happened. K FLYER have got an screenshot from upcoming Nokia S60 VGA Touch Interface. Screen was made by ICEman_c81 in withdrawn version of Carbide.ui (tool for theme makers). As you can see, there is a few buttons on the top for navigation. I don't know how about you, but I'm speechless :) VGA in S60, finally... :) I can't wait to get my hands on it.

(click on image to zoom in)

update:

New, landscape screenshots added! Again thanks to ICEman_c81!

Thursday, July 10, 2008

5 Things You (and I) Didn't know

Recently I started to hunt for the shortcuts which would allow my to browse the web more efficiently on my N95. Finally some clever soul did my homework...follow the link to learn some trick and shortcuts.

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Friday, July 4, 2008

New to the crew

Hello everyone!

My name is Matthew and I'm 16 years old. I live in Poland and accurately in Legnica. Together with Maciek here I will wrote reviews and news. Maybe some of you know me by my nickname - rodak69. I do not know too much about what I could say more. Watch for my first articles :-)

Yours,
Mateusz (Matthew) - rodak69 - Rodak

Friday, June 20, 2008

Afterparty...N95-3 edition

Not too long ago North American users of N95 (aka N95-3) were blessed with the long awaited update to our beloved phone. I wasn't going to be left behind so I jumped on the bandwagon and updated the firmware to v20.something... Not realizing that a few features were removed from the US edition (PTT client and IMPS client were some of them). Overall the firmware seems to be a worthy update HOWEVER...one of the things I've noticed is the slowness of SMS inbox. It takes much longer to open the inbox, then click on the message..wait another 2-3 seconds. This is becoming quite annoying. To the rescue comes a good old forgotten friend called SMS Accelerator. This little piece of software was released originally for N80 to remedy the slow performance of SMS messaging. I decided to give it a try and install it on N95-3 v20. All I can say is GO FOR IT. It doesn't just work...it works like a charm bringing the original speed of SMS imbox. Scan the code to get the application directly to your toy.

Monday, June 9, 2008

Nokia N85 in the wild!..could this be my next N-Series

Engadget scored some spy shots of N85. I think I could go for it under one condition...it must have WCDMA 1700 as I'm not planning to ditch my fave operator..T-Mob.

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