This phone demands a real 'love hate' relationship.
Unpacking the thing was like Christmas.
Top marks to Nokia for including a gig of SD memory card (I recently bought a Canon TX1 and all they saw fit to include was 32meg of MMC memory.)
There was also a video cable, a USB cable, and a cheap pair of earphones.
All these bits and pieces made me feel like ‘batteries HAD been include’ and that I could access most of the features of the phone immediately.
I received the plum version which is a great colour.
The protective case for the phone (also in plum) that I found in the box is cheap looking but at least they made the effort and I have no complaints.
I would like to meet the ‘dumb ass’ in marketing that decided that it would be a good idea to have an opaque 'peel off' sticker applied to the screen labelled with N95. I already know what it is that I bought, what I need is the clear protective sticker applied to the screen in the factory.
I’m a bit surprised how ‘plasticy’ the phone looks, especially after paying more then a grand for the unit.
It was quite disappointing holding it for the first time after all the hype.
I was surprised that the sliding screen assembly was plastic and not enclosed in a brush metal shell.
Speaking of cheap looking, I’m going to say something a little controversial here.
The N95 looks like a plastic toy!
Nokia used to be famous for building handsets that looked ‘hand built’ by a team of Scandinavian craftsmen. The N95 looks like Fisher Price was sub contracted to snap the pieces of plastic together.
I've held remote controls constructed of better quality plastics
As for the controls, the silver will wear off the buttons within a year, the 'app' and 'menu' buttons move around in their rest positions, and bizarrely the screen assembly is rock solid when slid into its up or down positions, but moves around when slipped into its home position.
That said, all the reviews I’ve read, and dudes in my office, really like the build quality of the phone!
One guy compared it to the O2 handsets.
I’m seriously out numbered with this opinion.
The ‘direction pad’ is also pretty bad, it’s too easy to accidentally hit the ‘multimedia’ key when aiming for the ‘clear’ key, or when trying to move the cursor 'to the right' in Notepad. What was wrong with the little joystick that was on the 6600? One of those joysticks surrounded by a cup of guard plastic would have been a lot less prone to slippage.
The hatch on the SD memory is a strip of plastic that is bent back to allow access to the card, so despite the card being ‘hot swappable’ I’m wondering how long the protective cap is going to last?
- A the panel fit. Toyota should be commissioned to get these panels fitting more closely.
B silver coated buttons. I had toy cars when I was a kid that used much the same process.
C spongy key action, and why is the Dpad so big, and soft, and butted right up to the keys on ether side?
I recently joined a bush walking group and this phone should be the
ideal device to take out into the wilderness. Unfortunately I don't
trust the construction to survive little bumps and jolts (I took the
6600,) and (as has been pointed out by lots of people,) the battery
life restricts the N95 owner to the daily ritual with the recharger
cable.
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