Nokia N95 8GB
This week I upgraded to a Nokia N95 8GB from my trusty Sony Ericsson.First, people would ask why I didn't just get an iPhone? Well many reasons, the first being I didn't need to pay to upgrade to the Nokia whereas an iPhone would have cost several hundred pounds - so actually that's a lot of reasons!
I also looked at spec. With 8GB on board memory, 5mp camera (2mp on the iPhone), 3.5g mobile network (old 2g on the iPhone), has Wifi like the iPhone and GPS with maps and navigation (which I believe the iPhone has). So even if the cost was the same I would only choose the iPhone on "fashion" and touch screen alone. The Nokia also uses S60/Symbian which opens up the possibilities for mobile based twitter etc and no locked features.
There are some things I would redesign with the user interface - it works fine but every now and again I think an option has disappeared when I needed it in that focus especially around web browsing. A better way of managing which connection to use would make things easier as well. Like if Wifi is on - always use it - not have to tell it to switch from the 3.5g network (but that could be user trouble). Switching between displaying horizontally or vertically seems a little hit and miss as well (in terms of how you "just do it" consistently from each application).
So far I'm loving it and the battery almost lasted two days of use (with me playing with everything on it). The screen is very clear (240 x 320 pixels - 16 million colours - clear enough for great video quality) and it takes great photos for a "phone" (I remember it was not that long ago that the average digital camera was at 5mp spec).
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