Nokia N95 8GB > Reviews > Finally a phone for Nokia to be Proud of!

Author's product rating:   

Look & Feel	Excellent
Durability & Robustness	Very Strong
Reception quality	Good
Battery standby time	Good
Value for money	Good
Range of features	Large selection

Advantages:	Lots of features, GPS, wireless, quality
Disadvantages:	Big, heavy, sometimes restarts randomly

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

I recenlty recieved my N95 as an upgrade with the 3 network and I have to say, I am impressed.

At first I was a bit sceptical as the previous N95 had so many problems attached to to it!

Visually the phone looks great and black is a nice colour for this phone. It is a bit big and heavy but the overall feel is rigid, durable and well engineered as is the smooth slide feature of the keypad.

Battery time is great considering I use my phone a lot and camera and listen to music.

It has 7 bars(full) and dropped to 4bars in the same day after constant use but on standby it was on 6 bars after 2 days.

The screen is large and really visible which is useful for camera mode.

The camera is brilliant, it takes pictures instantly and at 5MP, quality is as good as a normal digital camera.

The phone has integrated WLAN search so you can connect to WIFI spots and use the phones internet without connecting to a costly mobile network service.

The phone also has built in GPS with a preloaded Nokia maps feature. The GPS is ok, not as acurate as a proper navigator but really useful when navigating on foot. It does need a network (WLAN or Mobile) to function properly. You can easily download navigator software to it and it is ready to go.

This also doubles up as a media player with 8GB of space, I've used the bluetooth feature with my laptop and WLAN and downloaded about 5 hours worth of music. (Also preloaded with Spiderman 3 and a AV cable to connect to a TV!

And you know what else is great? There is no longer a bespoke wired handsfree connection so you can connect any headphone jack speakers etc... to the phone. The phone also slides in the opposite direction from the keypad to reveal media buttons.

I have been waiting a while for a decent phone from Nokia due to a history of issues and I think this is benchmark model.

Please make sure when you do get the phone that it is the Black 8GB model as someone may try and flog you the old N95 (silver) which is rubbish!