Symbiosis60

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.