My “hot” new phone - Nokia N95
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007 at 9:30 pm by Aaron GladdersCategories: burbles, tech
After the subtle washing and drying of my previous phone, a Motorola SLVR, it was time to pony up for the next generation. For me at least. Welcome an unlocked N95 from MobilePlanet. UK plugs but I can live with that.
Summary of the first 12 hours:
-wifi connection to our WPA2 Personal network, no probs
-isync plugin from nokia worked seamlessly - contacts + appts all set and loaded
-default email app able to connect over SSL to gmail
-gmail mobile mail app installed, works ok
-Shozu up and running (choosing the N93 to signup), sending pictures to flickr, huzzah!
-battery life hasn’t destroyed it yet
Haven’t bothered with the GPS yet, and therefore no geotagging of photos.
The bad? A few reboots already. Seems to be when connecting to the wifi connection, ah and once using maps. A lockup using the camera with a shoot repeatedly for 10 seconds test.
The other bad? Well I already knew this before buying but there will be no data plan for the phone yet 
It’s just prohibitively expensive, and therefore dangerous to even have a plan. You’d end up racking up charges inadvertently.
Update 20070522 - No more lock ups. A few random reboots and one “an unexpected error has occured please reboot the phone” (or something to that effect). Otherwise - I’m taking a ton more photo’s of my early mornings with the kids and sharing them with the rest of the family that morning. Reminds me of my last nokia moment in Morocco….but that’ll be another story.
April 27th, 2007 at 6:41 am
Wow! You rocket to the top of cool with an N95, Aaron! You’ll have to drop by the office so Roland can interview you…..
April 27th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
yeah:
1. definitely want to do less than 10 minute videoblog of you reviewing the N95, come by Bryght anytime after 3p.m. just call me at 604 729 7924 to make sure i am around
2. also make sure you have fido/rogers GPRS access point disabled/dleted in your web browser and ShoZu so you don’t get dinged thousands of dollars for mobile data
3. my experience with Shozu on S60v3 (currently N93 is my S60v3 device) is that it’s good up to about 70 photos but afterwards, you start having memory issues, i’d recommend deleting photos on the phone so that you are always under 50. apparently the N95 has more memory and should help these issues but i am skeptical about this!