The Blissful World of the N95
By Dave Adamson in Reader
Posted in Uncategorized on June 25, 2008 at 6:39 pm
I finally upgraded my phone, thanks to o2.
I’ve moved from the Samsung D900 - a brilliant, superslim phone - to the Nokia N95, a Symbian S60 3rd Edition smartphone. I’ve had it about a week now and what do I discover yesterday… Nokia have bought the outstanding shares in Symbian and absorbed the company. Now, I’m not saying it has anything to do with me getting an S60 smartphone, but it does seem hugely coincidental, I’m sure you’ll agree!
You see, whilst I’d grown to love (figuratively speaking) the D900, there were functions of my previous Nokia smartphone N91 “shiny housebrick” that I missed. I missed being able to edit Microsoft Office documents, instead of just being able to view them. I missed wifi network access and had grown hugely accustomed (thanks to Opera Mini) to mobile web browsing on the D900. I missed being able to store gigs worth of data just “because I could.”
Now, I’m back in the smartphone game, with the N95 (and an 8GB SDHC card, as mine is the shiny silver one, not the black one.) I’ve got to say, I couldn’t be happier (though if someone wants to send me vast amounts of money, I’m sure I could be happier still.) I’m having to contend with the oh-so-slightly different method of text entry (oh, for a standardised key press entry system), but I can live with that. It’s the flexibility and, more than that, the expandability that I am happy with - the range of additional programs I can install; from browsers (Opera Mini, again) to games (maybe) to media players (Divx!) to anything else you care to name. I can have them all… memory permitting. The aforementioned ability to create, manipulate and view Microsoft Office documents via QuickOffice and view PDFs with a custom version of Adobe PDF reader. I can even download and unzip zip files! It’s gonna mean a lot more potential for web browsing - no longer will it be a passive activity whereby I just read pages; I can now download and use content! There’s even a version of The Missing Sync for Symbian available for public preview (http://www.markspace.com/missingsync_symbian.php)
You see, a smartphone is a wonderful beast, with so much potential that I almost feel I’ve just scratched the surface. It’s like a computer and a phone and a PDA all in one. Okay, that’s not going to win the slogan of the year award. Perhaps Nokia put it best when they said “this is what computers have become.”
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