I had a chance to play around with a prototype of the Nokia N95 at the Adobe Usergroup meeting last evening. It totally blew me away. It's really the first phone - err, sorry - multimedia device as they call them that can't wait to hit the shelves.
It's the first S60 device that has a fast enough processor to make using the phone fluent, nice hardware-accelerated graphics for smooth transitions and animations and a whopping 5 megapix camera and decent mp3 player.
But the best thing is it's GPS. When I first heard that the N95 was going to have map-software I thought that it would be painfully slow. But hey, they managed to put Google Earth into a device that is really small. It's 3D, looks good, renders fast and fetches detailed imaginery while you're zooming in. I don't know which countries their backend supports (I heard that it would be many), but I had no problem fetching a route from Helsinki to Turku.
Really, you gotta look out for this one. Truly remarkable.
Uh, and it has Flash Lite 2.0 installed.
Comments
GPS + camera + mp3 player + phone - holy crap! When does it come out? How much?
Posted by: felix | 6 Oct 2006 20:20:41
salut
Posted by: ayoub | 7 Oct 2006 00:24:47
Hi felix,
The N95 is going to be available early next year, with an estimated 550 euro streetprice.
Posted by: Tuomas Artman | 7 Oct 2006 11:49:45
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