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N95 radio quality?

11 replies · 3,392 views · Started 17 May 2007

nfinland 17 May 2007, 15:34

To me it seems that the radio reception on the N95 is not as good as on the N70. Anyone else noticed the same?

mrich 18 May 2007, 19:22

The N95 is the first radio equiped phone i bought. I used to carry a radio equiped MP3 player (iRiver),
My experiances are that the reception of the N95 is OK and sound quality as well !! The only drawback is that it seems to be that another headphone isn't working !!! (connected to the remotecontrol/antenna cord)

thelefth 21 Jul 2007, 18:56

mrich wrote:The N95 is the first radio equiped phone i bought. I used to carry a radio equiped MP3 player (iRiver),
My experiances are that the reception of the N95 is OK and sound quality as well !! The only drawback is that it seems to be that another headphone isn't working !!! (connected to the remotecontrol/antenna cord)

I have the same problem..sound goes most of it in only one speaker or earphone and the other one is a bit silenced...though if you enable the start-up tone you see that it sounds on both earpieces. That means its not a software problem. I think that radio reception is in mono(not stereo) that is a 1channel analog sound...which means the phone may not be able to send 1 channel analog sound to both channels(it has a two-way output for sound unlike any other nokia phone). It would need a minibooster of radio signal to do that...such as car sound systems or otherwise sound would be really low on both earpieces..so they probably sacrifised the one for you to have radio on a stereo phone. I believe that is the problem...but i may be wrong! So until radio stations change their radio signal thats the way you ll listen radio on n95.:frown:

Gizza22 21 Jul 2007, 19:19

Does anyone else find the radio is really quiet on loud speaker? Compaired to listening to music via the mp3 player on loudspeaker its pants!

avithe1 22 Jul 2007, 01:43

Thats right the radio seems pretty low on the loudspeaker. But some posts do suggest that after upgrade to v12 firmware , its become loud.

thelefth 22 Jul 2007, 21:24

Hello again, for those who listen radio only in one earpice try to pull out the headset jack a bit out of the phone. Both earpieces work fine then. What shall we do? Take the phone for a repair?

3Shirts 23 Jul 2007, 15:21

I find it works as well as any previous radio-enabled phone I've had. Try headphones with a good length of cable.

Gizza22 23 Jul 2007, 20:16

Not 'in' the shower. I have a open plan shower cubical. I put the phone on other side of bathroom on a shelf! I can listen to mp3's over loudspeaker fine, but the radio is so quite the sound of the water drowns it out! No pun intended