Nokia 95 on T-Mobile
I think I was one of the first consumers in the world to get my hands on the newest Nokia handset. Aware of it’s impending release, I was watching the t-mobile site like a hawk and finally on Friday afternoon it quietly appeared in the list of Nokia phones.
I ordered it at around 5pm on Friday, and it arrived before 9am on Saturday morning!
This has got to be one of the most notable mobile phones of 2007, perhaps only second to Apple’s iPhone. Finally Nokia has created a usable, sensible phone with almost everything a web worker needs.
- HSDPA (Super fast mobile broadband, with speed potential of up to 14.4Mb/s - currently operators support around 1.8Mbps in enabled areas)
- Onboard Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
- SIP capability that works quite nicely over WiFi (so cheap calls at home or in a WiFi hotspot) My home phone is SIP from Gradwell so my mobile is now an additional handset to my ‘land line’.
- GPS with mapping and navigation software (navigation is an extra subscrption, but the mapping with location awareness is free)
Plus slightly less useful gadgety things like a 5Mp camera with Carl Zeiss lens, decent video recording, 3.5mm headphone jack, video output for plugging in to your TV (which works amazingly well - not quite DVD but very impressive)
And all this on a £22.50 per month T-mobile web ‘n’ walk contract which means unlimited* internet access on the move.
And so far I’m very pleased with it. The only problem is the GPS isn’t very sensitive. It takes a couple of minutes to lock on to the satellites, and you need a clear view of the sky with the keypad open. Didn’t work at all in London until I got in to an open area. Even so, it’s pretty amazing that they managed to fit GPS in there with everything else anyway.
The mapping software is pretty good too - resembles Google Earth. You get an image of the globe and then once it finds your location, it zooms in from space on to your position (nice). The maps are loaded from the internet as and when you need them (so a good data package is a necessity.)
Hi there - yes I too got this ohone from T-mobile. An I was glad to see that you managed to get it working for your Gradwell account - this is the very thing that I can’t manage! Any tips ?
Hi - I didn’t have a problem getting it working on my Gradwell account. You aren’t the first person to contact me about this though, so there obviously is a problem for some users. Perhaps it could be something to do with your firewall?
I’ve also had trouble getting logged on to Gradwell on a BT Home Hub, but it has always been fine at home on my Virgin Media Broadband with a Buffalo router.
What ISP and firewall do you use?
Hi - You might like to upgrade your T-Mobile N95 to the very latest firmware. It’s a tiny bit of a hack (instructions at http://drrobevans.com/2007/06/29/n95-firmware-flash-to-remove-orange/ are pretty accurate). The main benefit of the upgrade is that GPS fixes happen in just a few seconds, rather than a minute or two.