I was just thinking to myself which of my reasonable collection of toys would be my best gadget and I found it easy to choose – my Nokia N95 8GB, it has now replaced a good few things in my day to day belongings but also replaced things that were even just for now and then.

Ironically I hardly make any phone calls on it at all but from the moment I get up till the moment I go to bed it typically is used for a good proportion of the day, On my way to work I use it to listen to the radio, whilst it isn’t a DAB radio or anything fancy and the reception tends to get a bit weak due to the fact I’m listening to Radio 1 rather than a local station I really like the convenience that it provides, from then I use it throughout the day for the obvious texts but also for keeping up to date on all my emails most of which I’ll admit are from play.com, ebuyer and the like but the Nokia Email client is a great addition to the phone, combined with Gmail IMAP it gives almost instant updates on emails.
Its also great for browsing the net, whilst the mobile network isn’t quite up to providing a lot of full websites it can cope with a few Googles now and then and more than copes with Facebook which is a joy to use on the phone on the bus etc.

Onto what it has practically replace – My camera, a while back my camera was a great tool, I’ve taken a lot of pictures on it over the last year but it has sadly been replaced by my trusty phone with its 5mp camera, its convenient and has a good enough quality to get me right through an evening out socialising and I don’t have to take multiple gadgets everywhere!.

Finally a function that whilst I don’t use very often I still enjoy a lot – the GPS, its a bit of a cheek of Nokia to charge for extra mapping facilities like directions within the Nokia Maps software but I get by using Google Maps just fine, especially useful for making sure the taxi you’re in is going in the right direction!
And that is why I think my Nokia N95 is easily my best gadget and well worth the money I spent on it!

Hosting
Christmas time and its time for me to renew my website, thats all been done but now I have so many more features I’m trying to use them all at once, theres just so much to do on a web hosted server thingamabob – phpbb, wordpress and gallery’s galore!
I’ve been tinkering around with them all and installing boat loads of plugins for wordpress, something that I’ve always found with phpbb is that its easy to setup but its a royal pain to try and update, add plugins to and generally change. Sure themes and templates are easy but adding something as simple as a quick reply box is nowhere near as easy as it should be, its not even close to the ease of use that wordpress has to install plugins.

Chrome
A little while ago I wrote a little bit on Google Chrome, Since then I haven’t been using it too much but recently I’ve been using it daily on my laptop and quite a bit on my PC too – its just much quicker than Firefox to load for me, the only main problem I have with it is that it doesn’t feature any of the plug-ins that Firefox can offer, this may slow Firefox down for me in the long run but it does make it a better browser for me. A little better integration of flexibility would be a great addition to Chrome for me.

And Finally
I’ve had my Nokia N95 for a while now and I really am still loving it! – its much quicker than my old e65, it has more memory and more storage and better features – I’ve used the camera more than I’ve used any other mobile phone camera, purely thanks to the quality. I use it mainly for wap use – emails using Nokia Email and the Gmail application which bring different features to the table, Nokia Email is integrated and very smooth to run as well as inkeeping with the theme. The Gmail app on the other hand has its on styling and takes a little longer to load and use, however it has more control over the actions in terms of Gmail’s features – Searching, Archiving etc. They both offer what I need and at the moment they work in unison quite well which is a plus for me. I also use it for some simple web browsing – yes mainly Facebook (which has a fantastic mobile site – you can perform many of the normal functions just as easily) but also a small amount of research using Google.

I therefore love my N95 and don’t plan on replacing it for a while (last famous words?)

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