Nokia N95 8GB NAM to Start Shipping on Feb 15?
Shortly after the N95 8GB NAM made a surprise appearance on a Nokia mobile site, it’s now looking like we could see the US 3G variant of Nokia’s flagship Nseries device as soon as the middle of February! Mobile City Online has the black beauty listed for preorder at $800 and the published arrival date is February 15, 2008. Sweet! If history repeats itself, MCO will push their expected arrival date back several times before actually receiving the device. Then again, they’re also rarely the first retailer to launch a new phone so we should see the N95 8GB NAM become available from Nokia and / or other online retailers sometime around the middle-end of February. The new N95 will be the third high-end S60 device to be offered with US HSDPA compatibility; let’s hope it’s a new trend and this turns out to be for real!
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drell, check it out, two different models. Also TigerDirect sells mostly refurbs and leftovers.
I’m with Tyler on this, go buy a true camera if that what you need.
Unbranded and Unlocked…who cares. Still doesn’t warrant the price.
lol silly americans dogging on the n95? i thought by now you guys would have at least read up on phones, after hearing everyone slap the iphone around. the n95 is the best phone out there and has been for sometime now, only 4th quarter 07 / first quarter 08 are we seeing phones that are at best on par with it.
i paid that 800$ price for the n95 when it first came out and it was worth it and to be able to use it to its fullest capabilities in north america at the same price now… is still worth it.
I agree that the price is outta whack. However, I do want to point a few things out:
1. Tigerdirect doesn’t sell mostly refurbs and leftovers. I bought my N95-3 (that’s the regular N95 with US 3G and a microSD slot, which is a MUCH better deal than the N95 8GB with uS 3G) and it was delivered sealed from the factory. No refurb there.
2. Comparing the N95 to the Curve is like comparing a RAZR V3 to the iPhone. I mean, seriously?
The whole draw of handsets such as the N95 is that I have everything that I want in ONE device. I don’t need a DSLR for pictures. I want point-and-shoot simplicity.
With the ONE device, I can take REALLY nice pictures (I’m not printing, for heaven’s sake. Most digital pics sit on Flickr or a Hard drive and maybe get emailed or something), I can take unbelievably good quality video, i can listen to my music through regular headphones, speakers, or a stereo bluetooth headset, and I get GPS so I don’t get lost, not to mention I get S60, which is by far the most user-friendly SMARTPHONE OS out there (personally I don’t classify the iPhone as a smartphone, but that definition is widely debated anyways).
And I can fit all of that in my pocket. Does your Curve do HSDPA? No? Oh, shucks, that’s too bad. Does it use GPS to tell you where you’re at? Yes? Cool, what GPS app do you use? Oh, you can only use AT&Ts? That sucks. What about watching videos? 65k colors? That’s it? damn. Camera? 2MP? Really? Wow, you know, there’s RAZRs that have a 2MP cam. Glad to know you’re special.
I like the way this phone looks and the fact that it has US 3G but I’m not sure its worth the heavy price tag compared to the N95-3. I currently have an iPhone but I would like to purchase one of these devices as a secondary or maybe primary device depending on my needs.
One thing I find pretty interesting is that Nokia actually released shots of the new N96 not too long before this little number. What will become of the N95 8GB when that comes out? And should people really buy this phone when it comes out for the price or stick with the N95-3?
@Da Technology King – The N95-3 can be found online for $555 shipped (thenokiablog.com, I know the guy personally and can vouch for him) and an 8GB microSD is ~$85 shipped on Ebay.
Same feature set. The only difference would be the color and .2″ of screen. I’ve got them both sitting in front of me and I’d take the N95-3 anyday.
Ricky, I’m not comparing the two directly, obviously the N95 is a more powerful phone than the curve, but you have to pay attention to the fact that they are competing right now for a spot in my hand, and while I’m one of the sick people who would pay such a crazy price for a phone, it needs to justify the cost by being that much better than the alternatives, which the 95 is clearly not. I love hating on the n95 because EVERYONE thinks its so awesome and revolutionary and great and worth the price but it’s NOT. I have yet to read a valid argument as to why I would want to have one. I am all for device convergence, but this is not an advancement, its just a brick that you can put in your pocket. I could lug a desktop pc around with me too, but I don’t…
Tyler Brock – Thanks for not responding directly to anything I said. See, the thing is, we’re not trying to convince you. You were the one who came in blindly labeling the device a peice of junk simply because it doesn’t provide YOU with what YOU need/want. Had you come in and said, “That’s cool, but it’s not for me. I like my Curve better.” You probably would not have been called out.
The N95 most certainly is NOT designed for everyone. Neither is the iPhone, and neither is the Curve, obviously. If they were, then we would own one and this conversation wouldn’t be happening.
Given that the N95 series was the first handset on the market to cram that many features into a single device, and for them to all work surprisingly well (I’ve had the original N95, the N95-3, and now the N95 8GB on my desk, so you aren’t going to argue that they don’t work) is a feat. Thus, coming in and immediately declaring this device a “non-event” is daft. It’s also the 2nd HSDPA S60 device that Nokia has produced specifically for the US market, without the support of a carrier. That alone is the “event” to quite a bit of people, even if not to you.
I certainly am not contending that the N95 8GB NAM is a Jesus phone by any measure (in fact, I’d strongly recommend against spending $800 on it). But declaring it a non-event is, again, daft.
Ricky,
Obviously there is a phone out there for everyone, but what I am arguing is that this phone is the hype of the century. I don’t consider it innovation when I could tape devices that together do what the n95 does and have them be smaller than the n95. My opinion is not shared by everyone, but I am a huge fan of technology so I usually see value in cool and interesting products that come out, but I seriously cannot grasp why someone would pay this much money for a phone that is simply not that impressive. If the iphone was twice as thick and three twice as pricey, I’m sure it would be able to blow away the competition. Relatively, the n95 is a non-event because its not an advancement, its like nokia literally just glued a digital camera to a symbian handset with a fancy screen and called it a day. OK so its some great features that were pretty bleeding edge when it came out, how often do normal people use these features? Where is a bluetooth headset that doesn’t look retarted? I use google maps on my curve and it works fine, i’m not locked into at&t gps services. The n95 isn’t for everyone, your right, its just for those types of euro trash that think they have the “BEST” because they are spending the most money. I can have whatever I want and I choose no n95 because its just not that great. MY OPINION.
Furthermore,
All of you people are like the opera fans, you like to use obscure things just because of some bizzare feature to be so cool and awesome and l33t.
That’s odd, Tyler. The Curve, according to Phonescoop, measures 107mm x 61mm x 15.2mm, while the N95 8GB measures 99mm x 53mm x 21mm. That means the N95 8GB is shorter AND less wide than the Curve (that means SMALLER). It’s a mere 6.2mm thicker. Please find me a 5MP digicam that’s 6.2mm thick and I’ll shutup.
So basically, the N95 8GB is able to cram a bigger battery (1200mAh vs. 1100mAh), HSDPA, a 5MP cam with autofocus, a bigger (2.8″ vs 2.5″) more vibrant display (16 million colors vs. 65k) AND 8GB of internal flash memory into a SMALLER package. A-Freakin-mazing, but yet this phone is a non-event. Fascinating. Thanks for playing.
I would love to jump all over one of these when they become available. However, I am finding it difficult to locate suitable replacements for applications that I have come to rely on during my 7 years of using a WM device.
Ricky just pwned you, Tyler Brock!!! but he forgot to mention TV out on the N95 (i can only think of a handful of phones that can do TV out) the ability to share pics, videos, surf the web, play games, …etc. from your phone to your TV is an event in itself.
its so obvious that you are jealous of the N95 and want one soooo bad because you keep on coming back to this post. I mean if youre soo satisfied with your curve, then why did you even read this article in the first place? just stop, we all already know how misinformed you are.
and you forgot to mention the full keyboard..oh yeah. Come on they are for different crowds, BB users want BB.
My post was referring to the iPhone dimensions. It is ricky who is owned. iPhone FTW. With the extra $400 I’ll but another iPhone 3G when it comes out.
HEY THIS GUY, iPhone also has tv out. YOU GUYS SHOULD READ STUFF BEFORE YOU POST. LOL
I love coming back to this post and bashing you n95 lovers.
Lol. Bash away, Tyler. I’m sitting here with an iPhone, N95 8GB and N95-3 on my desk.
ROFLMAO YOUR SO RICH RICKY WOWOWOWOWOWOW
Not mine, they’re for testing/reviews. Glad to see you’re not 8, though. Good job, once again.
He claims we have the education of a 6th grader, yet he doesn’t know the difference between your and you’re.
Oh, I still say I will believe it when I see it. My question to all is why do you hold so much trust in an online store? Wouldn’t there be more information on the web aside from a store taking money?
I never said the iphones didnt have tv out. I said “…(i can only think of a handful of phones that can do TV out)…”
Are you that retarded? YOU should read stuff before you post. For you’re
@N95forlife – The guys at MobileCityOnline are active members of HowardForums, and have verified the phone.
Also, Mark Guim, the guy behind Fonegrabber.com and Thenokiablog.com, who recently started selling the N95-3, has gotten confirmation from his supplier (official Nokia distributor, not some shady setup) that he should be able to get the handset in by mid-January.
I’d say I’m 100% confident this handset is real.
i got nokia n95 and i cant get access to web from provider and i cant sand a pictures and get one.my provider(LongLines wireless)coudnt figure it out.i live in south dakota and we dnt have like att ant t-mobile.but should i change my provider to get that features or its something else?
You guys are dissing Tyler Brock but I get what he is saying. First off, I have the Nokia N95-3 (i probably would have gone with the 8GB US version if it was out a month ago when i brought the N95.
With that Said, What Tyler is saying is that the N95 is Expensive. currently if you search well, you can get it for 560, but most of us got it for about 600. The new one will come out at 800 and trust me, it won’t be coming down in price anytime soon, just look at how long the European 8GB hovered around 7-750. So for 800 bucks you can get multiple blackberry curves. 2 Iphones. an Iphone and a video Ipod. You can get an Iphone and a Great Point and Shoot camera. YOu can get an internet Tablet and an Iphone. The camera isn’t even as great as people make it out to be. It’s no where near the quality of even a cheap 100 buck point and shot digital camera of less or equal megapixels. Phone cameras and video as well, was meant for the cheap, quick video at the spur of the moment. Things that you see for example when that Florida Kid Got Tasered at the John Kerry Speech.
In the end, I do think I have the best phone in one, but I too wonder if it was worth the price.
Simply put, N95 gives you certain “premium” services out of the box. First, is S60. It includes so many apps out of the box that a good 80% of users will never even need to go download any additional apps, but those 20% that need some specific things can still do so.
Second, you can natively sync with MS Exchange without needing a BES add-on or wasting time logging into a sorry “lite” web mail interface with iphone. That’s a big deal for lots of corporate users who want converged devices.
Third, camera and video recording and video playback are a big deal now. Also related is gaming ability. Graphically, if you are offering those camera/video and playback features and aren’t delivering them, you get issues like the current TyTN II/Tilt owners have been experiencing, where those features are basically pointless for a $500 device.
Finally, there is the input advantage of true tactile feedback on hardware input buttons, and the fact that your screen doesn’t need to be cleaned nearly as often as a touchscreen device. Also with this point, the speed of predictive text with a T9 layout really IS faster than thumb-based QWERTY for the majority of SMSing. If you want to send long emails and you don’t know how to use T9, then I’m sure you may prefer QWERTY, but that’s a personal preference… definitely not a global standard for “fast texting” as you claim.
So really, if you want a device to use as a cheap laptop or UMPC replacement, a cheap camera replacement, a multimedia smartphone, a DS/PSP replacement with lacking controls, AND have native mobile connectivity to Exchange/Notes systems… what other device in the US market could you get?
Cuz I can’t think of one.
Just curious to know if the build quality will be better than the original n95 8gb. When the n95-3 was released there were improvements to it’s slider mechanism compared to the n95-1. Does anyone know of any other improvements other than the addition of 3g technology?