Nokia Launches N95

Nokia has finally launched their N95 superphone, Saturday April 7, 2007 at their US flagship stores in Chicago and New York.

The reason for the term 'Super phone' is evident from the various software and hardware the phone comes equipped with. With features such as Nokia's Lifeblog software that allows you to create a digital album of anything special, to having a full GPS receiver, the phone comes fully equipped for the business man, the traveler and anyone else.

The phone is designed as a dual slider where the media keys slide out from the top. The N95 has a 5 megapixel autofocus camera that's equipped with a Carl Zeiss Optics Tessar lens. The camera in front, used for video calls, is a low resolution portrait camera. The media player supports video formats like MPEG-4, H.264/AVC, H.263/3GPP, RealVideo 8/9/10 and audio formats like MP3, WMA and AAC+. For external memory the N95 uses microSD cards.

The N95 has quad-band GSM/EDGE support Bluetooth stereo support, WLAN support. The browser itself has a mini map function for overlooking the page. The device also supports VoIP over Wi-fi among other things like Podcasting etc. The N95 also has Vox software for uploading photos and videos onto your Vox blog from the device directly. It even comes equipped with Flickr software for uploading and managing your pictures. The N95 can also be used as a data modem for any windows PC.

This Nokia device also has Quick office support for formats like word, excel and powerpoint even .pdf files but the files cannot be edited till the editing upgrade has been purchased. The N95 also has a barcode reader voice recorder note pad and a file zip function.

The phone runs on Symbian S60 OS, measures 100 x 53 x 20 and weighs 121g. It's priced at approximately Rs. 32,105 ($750).