Nokia N95 battery and image quality tests
By Stefan Constantinescu on Monday, February 26th, 2007 at 1:02 PM PST In Mobile Phones
James certainly has been busy!
On a "video playing test" the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N95 scored 3 hours and 35 minutes in offline mode, 3 hours 14 minutes with the GSM radio on and an iPod got 4 hours and 4 minutes.
What can we say about this? The iPod has an onboard h.264 decoder while the N95 is doing the decoding via software since the TI OMAP 2420 doesn’t have any h.264 acceleration.
The TI OMAP 3430 chip does! This will give us a hint as to what future N series devices are capable of.
On to the image test:
From left to right we have the Nokia N93, N93i and N95.
Here we can obviously see that megapixels count.
Great work James!
Great battery test results, and should really shut the **** up of people who keep complaining about N95 battery without even having held the phone in their hand! People seem to think that the absolute convergence device to date - N95 - should somehow have the same battery life as the iPod video - I am guessing here but probably the battery takes up most of the volume in the iPod body.
Don’t forget that you can change the battery any time you feel like it on the N95.
Good point Stefan!
To be honest, I was pleasantly surprised at how well both devices did in this test, I think it’s probably because both Apple and Nokia tend to be refreshingly modest in their battery life claims.