My Weekend With The N95

What a monster!!!  Without a doubt, the N95 is worth every penny and some more!  I had a good chance to really test it out over the weekend and for the most part, I am extremely happy with this phone. I was able to take a lot pictures, shoot video, check and respond to email, text message, surf the web and the one thing that people forget when it comes to this phone……make calls (I mean it is a cell phone, lol).  There are two things that absolutely drove me crazy though.  The battery life and the constant out of memory message (even though there was really nothing open).  I found myself charging two, maybe three times per day.  But, I accepted it because it’s not the phones fault that it has so much features and power.

Can we say attention getter???  Yes the iphone seems to be the talk and is always a conversation starter.  Everyone knows about the iphone, but how many people really know about the N95 and all that it can do.  Case and point…..I pull out the phone to take a picture on Saturday and no one says anything about the phone (I think most people thought it was just a camera).  After I took the photo, people are veiwing the photo and saying how nice the picture is.  As people start leaving from around me, I slid the phone up, so that I could send the picture and everyone is like “what is that?”, “is that a phone?”, and then I begin to show all that this phone could do and the iphone couldn’t.  Now my wife has an iphone and whenever the iphone is pulled out, everyone around wants to see it, touch it and play with it.  But even as she has stated recently, you eventually get bored with it.  The N95, once out is definitely an attention getter.

My Weekend Experience….

Saturday – I took the phone off of the charger at 8:30 am.  I took some photos, shot some video, checked my email and talked on the phone, no more than 5 minutes.  At 12:31, the phone was down to two bars.  Saturday was my nephews birthday and he was having a birthday party at Chucky Cheese later on in the day, so I put it on the charger because I knew I would be taking a lot of photos and video.  I took the phone off of the charger at 3:30 and headed to the party.  We arrived a little after 4 pm and I took so many pics and shot one video (about two and a half minutes) of my two year son dancing when Chucky Cheese was singing.  We left the party around 6 pm.  Around 6:45 the phone was beeping, letting me know that the battery was low.  So I stopped at the mall and purchased a car charger (this is a must!!!).  And that was pretty much was my Saturday with the N95.

Sunday – My jazz band had an early morning gig at Haines Point (had to be there at 6:15 am). I took the N95 off of the charger at about 5:45 am.  Got to the place, set up and then I got a chance to takes some really beautiful pictures (the camera is absolutely lovely…slow to start though!).  We started playing around 7:15 am.  I had two videos of the us recorded (one, which you see in the previous post) and then another, that was about 3 minutes long.  We finished playing a little after 10 am and the phone was beeping (thank goodness for the car charger), I mean the phone was on its last leg, lol.  I Went back home to pick my wife up and we drove out to her mothers.  I let the phone charge for about the next 4 hours.  My son turned 2 on September 7th and all he talked about was wanting a bike or as he would say, “I want bike”.  So my wife and I brought him his first bike on Saturday and we took him out Sunday, so that he could ride it.  It was so exciting to see my little man happy.  I grabbed the phone (around 4:30 pm) and started snapping pictures and took a video of him riding (not even 2 minutes long).

 

 

 

As you can tell, he is a HUGE spiderman fan!!!!  It is really nice to have a camera-phone, where the picture quality, is as well as this.  Hats off to Nokia on a job well done with the camera!!!

At around 8 pm, the phone started beeping again, letting me know the battery was low.  So I put it on the charger for the rest of the time that we were there.  That wraps up my Sunday.

All in all, I had a great time using the phone.  The pictures and video that I captured this weekend alone, are more than worth it.  There are a few things that really irritate me about the phone.  The battery life is awful, and the dreaded “out of memory”, gets on my nerves.  But, if you have the right tools (i.e., an extra charger and a car charger), you will be fine.  I do think that I am going to have to sell this phone and get me the US version though.  If you’re someone who is debating about getting the N95, GET IT!  Don’t think twice….You will not regret your purchase!  The iphone really has NOTHING on this phone.  I will be doing a comparison soon of the two phones.  There are advantages and disadvantages to every phone and that is what I will try to touch on, when I do my comparisons. 

Other than a few minor things, it was a wonderful weekend with my N95.