I have had my N95 for about 2 months, here is a general list of my complaints thus far:
* Poor build quality, the wobbley slider syndrome make the phone feel badly made and is annoying to use when it rattles like that.
* Leaving the Bluetooth/GPS/Wi-Fi on hammers the battery more than on other phones I have had anyway (esp. Bluetooth)
* General battery life is by far the worst on any comprable phone
* The GPS, is, well, crap. It takes ages to find a signal, the maps and navigation are an extra hassle to download and other navigation solutions are less than satisfactory as users on this forum have detailed.
*The media key becomes randomly unresponsive.
On the plus side:
* Best camera on a phone i've ever seen and videocamera
Maybe you got a dud?
Mine is 7 weeks old, has a rock solid slider and great buid quality generally. The GPS is superb, gets a fix in seconds with or without A-GPS and with ViewRanger running (and the slider closed some of the time) lasted for a 5 hour walk on Sunday and still had 4 bars left!
And I have the track to prove it.
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nickmon wrote:I have had my N95 for about 2 months, here is a general list of my complaints thus far:
There are so many bad things about this phone: crappy memory, wobbly slider, hiss from screen, purple picture tint, noisy audio when video recording, GPS requires slid open, slow browser, no RDS-radio, picky H.264-player, shows only four (!) mails in mailbrowser overview, no html and too large font in mailcontent, very slow when taking pictures, red button may mean turning off app randomly, no normal big pictures of contacts, no automatic handover from wlan to 3G when trying to connect etc.
Still, it (and N95 8 MB) probably still is the best phone in the world after being six months on the market...
dang these comments would drive anyone away from getting this phone, it all depends on what you expect from a phone and how you use it! Im about to get mines in 2 days or so! As long as i can SMS can make/receive calls im good to go! hopefully future firmware fixes everything!
Well, I have had mine since the 1st April. I have watched every development with interest and today called in to the SonyEricsson and the Apple shops in London.
And I would still have another N95 over any thing else on the market (except an Ameo which I got at the beginning of Sept as a partner to the N95).
sturgeon wrote:Maybe you got a dud?
I agree with the above, you must've been unlucky.
Ive had my N95 for about 4 months and the only complaint I have is that missing key bug. And that, im hoping, will be fixed in the next firmware.
The gps has improved in the last month or so and connects in about 20-30 seconds for me.
Imo the N95 is Nokia's best phone. I love it 😊
Only complaints i have are the battery (spose its not that bad unless youre using GPS all day) and the play button on the side gets in the way when you want to text. Apart from that the phone is fantastic, the GPS is really useful and since i got a screenmount ive never lost signal
i dropped my n95 on a threshold by mistake and afterwards the slide was much better on one side. still a few millimetres gap on the right side.
don't dare to drop it again.
but otherwise the phones is great.
Gps really roxx with agps turned on. Shame only so few thirdpary apps like route66 only works.
ofcourse the battery suxx, and its a bit brick stone in your pocket, and the noise while listening to music is a defeat. but ill stand.
got a small sonyericsson phone for music and everyday use and n95 for just ruining the economy. and gps.
What "noise while listening to music" ?
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sturgeon wrote:What "noise while listening to music" ?s.
I guess its dependant on what your listening to 😉
There's severe hissing on the audio output, in my opinion, in calls as well as with music, but my ears have mostly become accustomed to it! Coming from a non-fancy Motorola phone which nevertheless had clear audio, I even tried to get a replacement for my N95 after hearing the hissing - but discovered that both the store demo model and the sales assistant's N95 were just the same.
try sit in a quiet room and have volume at 10% with original earphones.
then you hear the noise at the same level. you need to turn volume up at maybe 40-50% to not be able to hear it.
compare to my other SE w660 you can call it silence as the grave.
and if you don't have an hearing impairment , not yet, you will think this is very annoying while listening to calm music at a low volume..
dont know about you guys..?
or am i the only one with such a sensitive hearing?
davyjones wrote:am i the only one with such a sensitive hearing?
I don't use the original Nokia headphones. I've got philips "bud"-shaped ones instead, and I don't hear the noise. I find that headphones that come with a device are rubbish (phones, music players, portable game consoles etc) so I've always used my own.
I wish the headphone jack had been put on either the top of the phone or the right side. As it is, I can't plug my headphones in and place the phone on a desktop to watch a video in landscape mode. Still, it's not only Nokia with this issue; the SE W910 has the same flaw.
Interesting ! There is some background noise there when I try your test davy, but it isn't that obtrusive unless I use the original Nokia earbuds as you suggest - and if I use one of the audio eq presets, with stereo widening and loudness all turned on.
My normal listening mode is with all the toys turned off and a pair of full range Beyer headphones. Result - very good signal to noise ratio - I'm not aware of the hiss. The audio quality is very good too.
I tried this test with a pair of Beyer Dt100 studio monitoring headphones too (these have very flat frequency response) and same thing, virtually no noise. There is a fair bit more with the Nokia originals. I wonder if there is some sort of impedance matching problem? The built in eq is pretty powerful and can really wind up the top end - and any hiss with it, I just don't need it with decent headphones. (Tried with Nokia Music player and Ogg player).
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yea i dont use the orginal earplugs neither. but you can clearly hear the noise with them.
And came up with the idea that, wow maybe Koss The Plug will reduce the noise, everyone talks about them so they must be good,
so went straight to the store and bought them, and they were even worse with the noise than the original.
But am not sure you are noise-free zxon? if you listen close in a quiet room..?
surely they are better but not totally.
davyjones wrote:But am not sure you are noise-free zxon? if you listen close in a quiet room..?
surely they are better but not totally.
I've taken your advice and tried in a quiet room with a gentle song (Robbie Williams - Angels Acoustic Version) and yeah I suppose I can tell what you mean about the hiss. Before I started playing the song and I was browsing the menus, whenever the phone beeps to indicate that you've pressed a button, I can hear quite a loud hiss for about 2 seconds after the beep, then it goes away. Also, when listening to the song, I suppose there is a *very* light hiss in the background, but I had to pause/play the song a few times before I could pick it up.
I'd never noticed it before, and my hearing is quite sensitive as well, so maybe the headphones are good. If anyone's interested, these are the ones I use:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Philips-SHE9500-00-In-Ear-Headphones/dp/B000B5TWTY
[EDIT] Actually, I was looking through the reviews for these headphones and although alot of people seem to not like them (somehow), there's one review I've just found where someone says they're perfect for N-series phones.