As many of you know, I use a Treo 650. I am accustomed to the size and features of this device as a mobile communicator, and use it quite well as such. The N95 has totally changed my ideas as to what to expect and what I should be able to use.
The N95 is smaller than the Treo (when including the antenna) and is just as plump; despite the fact that Nokia’s model has a great deal more features. It is weighted great, and feels like a phone when held like one, but holding it horizontally makes it feel like a small computer.
The buttons are well shaped and offer plenty of tactile response.
Still, as I love the QWERTY keyboard of the Treo, it would take some relearning of T9 to get back to using a numeric keypad for text messages and short emails.
I was less impressed with Nokia’s S60 user interface running on the Symbian OS. While I do see the many applications that are included on the N95, there was not a sense of cohesion about them that made me confident about it.
For example, the Symbian Today screen was useful for seeing what is going on, but that same interface didn’t carry into the other applications.
The Media Center was very impressive and looked like it would be an excellent overall launcher, but it only appears when you slide out the media controls at the top, and is only usable in the horizontal view.
There’s no doubt, the N95’s camera is drool-worthy. The pictures were very sharp and the auto-focus worked great. For many of us who just like to carry their mobile and use the camera on it, we are used to pictures that are not so great. After the N95, I am less accepting of that.
In the model that I got to play with, the GPS feature was not working. But I still find it amazing that Nokia was able to fit a GPS antenna into a device of that size, along with everything else that is in there.
Source: Brighthand
I only got to play with the N95 for less than 2 minutes … but it was still an awesome 2 minutes!