Only a few months after the release of the Nokia’s range topper N95, its big brother was released, and a glimpse at its amazing features proves that it has been designed to dominate the market. Nokia N95 8GB is an eye catcher, with high quality outer skin and glossy black finish is imposing and a huge improvement over its predecessor whose cheap feel of the outer skin was a major let down.

Design:

Despite a huge 2.8 inch screen, the cell phone is much smaller than one would expect, thanks to the two way slide to hide the stylish keypad. The two way slide is a one of the kind feature that hides the keypad on one side and music keys on the other side. The dimensions are bulky nonetheless, but it’s been beautifully designed to cover the size and impress the viewer! The rear looks like a slim digital camera.

Features:

Nokia N95 8GB doesn’t lack in features and proves that it’s the n-series’ range topper. There’s a huge 2.8 inch 16 million colour screen to start with. It’s extremely bright and quality is impressive. The image quality, depth and ambiance is almost unprecedented and colour accuracy is difficult to fault. Then there’s huge 8GB internal memory, which justifies the lack of card slot. Almost everyone won’t be lacking storage with such a huge memory at disposal. The overall working of the phone is faster than the previous n-series phones, like the n70, n72, and n73, and is a welcome improvement. The operation is reasonably fast at the start, and gallery opens instantaneously, and so does the other files and folders. As more of the memory is used, things slow down a bit, and regular working speed is still, somewhat, hmmm, slow, but it’s adequate and tolerable. The cell phone uses Symbian 9.2.Now comes the best part, the camera. The cell phone comes with a 5 Mega pixel camera; now without lens cover (so one has to be more careful). It seems the same as on the N95, but it performs much better. The photo quality in all situations is has been improved. The camera takes impressive pictures in natural and artificial light. It takes full advantage of the huge resolution to produce excellent results. Photos taken in the dark doesn’t disappoint, but the LED flash is a bit weak. The camera also records video in VGA resolution at 30 fps! The Nokia n95′s camera was slightly behind the Sony Ericsson K850′s camera, but this N95 8GB beats the k850 in GSM arena’s 5 mega pixel shootout, and puts itself at the top of the chart. The music player is also great, and supports a huge number of formats: MP4, M4A, MIDI, AAC, eAAC, AAC+, and WMA are all supported. The sound quality is excellent. The sound is loud and extremely clear, both in the hands free and external speakers. There’s no noise at full volume, and the stereo speakers work great. The quality is slightly below Sony Ericsson W910 in some tests but is better than almost every other cell phone, and the difference is minimal, and hardly noticeable to average user. The video quality is also impressive thanks to huge bright screen. The cell phone comes loaded with features. It has a built in GPS receiver, which can be handy navigation tool in a car etc. The cell phone has HSPDA 3.5G, HSC SD, WLAN and EDGE. And a huge number of softwares are available that can be installed later.

Conclusion:

The Nokia N95 is almost unprecedented in it’s class. It has countless features to keep everyone happy. Camera, entertainment, music, nothing is missing, and has sleek looks that draws everyone’s attention. The main letdown is the price, but the features justify it. One can find almost everything he needs in a cell phone, and he can become popular among his friends and classmates with this amazing, I mean amazing product. Well done Nokia!