Nokia N95 8GB - Tech Review

Nokia N95 8GB - Tech Review Welcome to the brand new website of TechCast. Today, we’re going to be looking at the brand new Nokia N95. Okay, so when I first look at the design of the unit. It’s an old butt chassis. It’s a little bit different to the one I came before which is all silver. Still it got the slide and keypad which you can see that. It slides down west to reveal the MP3 controls on the side or video controls if you will. The actual dimensions are the same. The weight is a little bit heavier, 128 grams versus the 120 of the previous generation and above you just got the 8-gigs of flash memory built-in, take in take out as well so that’s the actual design of the unit. The screen size is 2.8-inch versus the 2.6-inch in the previous generation, but still the same resolution and yeah that’s the Nokia N95 design. So, the Nokia N95 is a 3 ½ GPhone and what that means is that you get incredibly fast instinct action and much faster than say GPRS. So if you want to access video on demand which is something free the network and really pushing at the moment. You’ll be able to do that with this without new problems unless you’ve got nice decent size 2.8-inch screen that too much of videos with. You’ve got a front face in camera which is for video course. On the back you’ve got a 5 megapixel camera with Xenon flash on this, so a really good quality shots out there on the back on this side. It’s actually near end and quality of what you get from a normal cheaper dedicated cameras, so excellent quality camera on the back. You’ve got the GPS capability. I tried this out the other day. It wasn’t too good. You still but sure of going for a dedicated sound out system, but it’s handy and actually it has enough feature built in there. In terms of connections, you’ve got a standard 2 ½ mil headphone jack on the side as well as the standard USB cable connections, so no price of format it’s again there for connecting it to your headphones or your PC or Mac, so you can just drag your files very quick and very easy with this. A really good quality speakers, very loud, it’s very clear. There’s actually better base on my stereo speakers with each side whether you listen to music or watch some movies, a really good quality crystal clear actually and I should have get this on volume from a whisper to how loud it goes. Okay, so let’s take a look at some of the features available on the Nokia N95. I’m going to start by looking at how the movie play backwards for example, so it includes on the Nokia N95 8GB model is the Spiderman 3 movie, so I’m just going to show you how you can get an access to that and what it looks like on the actual screen. So, when you access it some pretty quick launch. Slide this carousel interfaced and you can carry on just flipping through the various areas like the gallery, the videos, and your contacts and loading up Spiderman 3. It takes quite a while because it is quite a large file to access from the hard drive itself, so you see that it started playing there. It took me a while to figure out how to actually get it on landscape view. There’s no actual button to do it. What you need to do is actually close the slide there and then put it into the play back control mode and that is all much to switch the screen to landscape view. Now, I was quite surprised at the quality of the screen and as you can see you’ve got the headphone jack on the sides, so you can plug in some speakers or some headphones you can do that as well. The good thing about the movie player is that it actually does remember your last playback position so if you stop it and you can comeback to it you can resume from where your last playback. So, I’d like to start from the movie playback feature which I believe is a real player and the screen does stay in the landscape view until again you push it back into the normal candy bar shape mode. Now, so I’ll take a look at the music player, so I’m just going to access the menu and open to music the music player you’ve got these three music store where you can download tracks. Now, you’ve got the built in radio and the Nokia Music store as well. You can also playback podcast, so let’s take a look at the beep, beep song, so that’s the music player. Okay, if you want to use the controls on the side you can do that as well. [Music playing] Now, the music player just carry on playing until you actually exit the application so you carry on whatever you’re doing or actually listen to music and you always have full control, so I want to pause it, you can do that. In the home screen it will actually show you what the music tracks playing you can escape tracks, pulls some stock obviously, so, I’ll just stop that and let’s turn off and let’s take a look at the web browser. It is such an interesting aspect and there you have growth for usage on the go browsing. Web browser is quite cool on this one. I’m just connecting by the three networks. Pretty rapid and you can access to mouse, here’s your icons, then selecting go tabbing to each key unless you’ve got a physical mouse like you would do in the desktop machine. When you’re scrolling up and down it gives you a life of overall preview, so you can see we’re about two hour on the page. I’ll turn it over to a web address, say I want to go to Google go to that one. Again, you can switch the view to landscape mode as you see it launches pretty quick. If I want to go back, it gives you this again carousel view. Let’s just switch the button. Okay, so we’re going to take a quick look at the camera functionality so we’re going to hold up by holding the shutter button for about two seconds. Let’s go up and lock feature just be careful because you might load it by accident. Now on the right hand side you get access to the various functionality of the camera, so I don’t want to switch to video mode for example. You’ve got 640 x 480 for this video or a good quality playback as you would do on a normal camera. In fact you’ve got scene mode, so you can select from portrait, landscape, night shots, sports mode, macro mode. They are all available for that menu system right there. We’re back, there’s access to flash, flash options, radar reduction, timer mode so let’s go up there a minute, two minutes etcetera. The sequence mode that gives you best shots or you can do time slot so you have to say and even from 10 seconds or 30 minutes I believe on that one, so you create your own time slot, time slot of videos. You can do that for that. You change access to the colors, cool tones, black and white CPU. You get access to the grid, standard white balance, contrast, exposure, ISO settings, and the sharpness image sharpness, so it’s basically a functionality you’d find in a normal camera. You can find on different styles on this camera for it’s a 5-megapixel color, size, lens on this so a really good quality shots from this. In terms of picture taking mode just to show you how long it takes to process an image. If I just take a snap back on which for the mess that I'm in so I just take on that shot, just processing and it’s done so that’s ready to go. And then you get access to say you want to send via multimedia messaging, via email, I believe to buying for it. You want to post it to the web, let’s say Flickr over Nokia’s wide blogging online service you can do that. Now you can print it out to the print basket and sign in for sharing online. I believe it’s the life ball game that usually you thought. The new Nokia N95 is such a feature for phone. It has so many features built-in to it that you can define it difficult to find time to use. It’s awesome, but the good thing is if you’re going to be out and about you’re going to have everything you need because this N95 is much like your computer. You take your computer in your pocket since you’ve got your camera, you’ve got your web browser and email, your instant messaging including the free network. You also get Skype or Windows Live Messenger. It has a gaming console system. You’ve got the engaged facility there. You’ve got a 5-megapixel camera, a video capabilities, 30 frames per second, rated quality DVD like qualities how to describe it, but yeah it’s pretty much everything you need on there. The only issue you’ll going to find with the N95 is the fact that the battery is not really going to last you that long. If you’re going to start using some of the more advanced features of it but really I’m impressed with how they managed to fit everything into a unit and yeah, you’re going to see the next version.