N95 - 8GB versus Iphone 8GB

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Which do you think is a better phone/deal?

Iphone: $400
N95 8 GB - $750

The N95 has GPS and a 5mp camera.

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Lifer
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Holy shit, people spend $750 on a phone? That's a lot of pizza deliveries.
 
GeekDrew

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/me wonders what an N95 is... goes to look. I was personally thinking about an HTC Tytn II.
 
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George P Burdell

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The $400 iPhone ties you in for two years with Antichrist Telephone and Telegraph. The N95 comes unlocked.

The iPhone is a lil bitch compared to the N95, but it has better social recognition.

Personally I would get a cheap phone and pair it with a Nokia N810.
 
Inspector Jihad

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Originally posted by: George P Burdell
The $400 iPhone ties you in for two years with Antichrist Telephone and Telegraph. The N95 comes unlocked.

The iPhone is a lil bitch compared to the N95, but it has better social recognition.

Personally I would get a cheap phone and pair it with a Nokia N810.
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$700 is a lot for a phone but then again

I do not have:

Digital camera, mp3 player, GPS in car (can use this).
 
AgaBoogaBoo

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Other side of that thinking: If you ever have an issue with the phone, you know, like the battery running out, not only is your phone dead, but so is your GPS, MP3 Player, and camera.

I'm not a fan of this and would recommend getting each item separately to keep things as modular as possible.
 
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pm

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My post in this thread:
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...id=66&threadid=2106263

As far as the N95 vs. the iPhone, they are both very nice phones.

The N95 has a much (much!) better camera, included GPS and 3G support, and 3rd party app support. And it's naturally unlocked. It has stereo bluetooth support and you can use it as a laptop "modem" on the road.

The iPhone has better battery life, a much nicer screen (bigger, brighter and higher resolution), nicer email support (push Email with HTML support), and it's cheaper. It's also, in my humble opinion, more elegant. Lastly, the larger screen on the iPhone means watching movies and surfing the internet is more practical and effective.


I'd say that it depends on what you want, and what your budget is. If you live in a city with 3G, then the N95 suddenly looks much better, but if you commute a fair bit on planes and trains and such, it's really nice to be able to surf the web and watch movies on the much larger/prettier iPhone screen. But if you like using a laptop for these things, then the untethered/modem support of the N95 is very nice. The GPS and 3rd party support of the N95 is very nice. But the N95 is at >$550 right now, while the 8GB iPhone is $400.

For me I really looked at smart phones for quite a while all through August and early Sept. I saw someone using an N95 when I was in New York in August and I liked the way it look, but the price was the killer for me on the N95. I paid $300 for my 4GB iPhone, the N95 was sitting above $600 when I was trying to decide. Even with the N95 at $550... that's well out of my price range. If the N95 had been $300 when I was trying to decide... I'd have probably shrugged and gave up on Apple and bought an N95. The obvious downside of the iPhone is that a lot of the features that I wanted (unlocked, 3rd party apps) are not supported by Apple, and in fact, appear to be actively targeted by Apple. This can either be frustrating and nerve-wracking, or fun, depending on how much you just want to have a cell phone that works, and how much you like messing around hacking things to get them to do things that they weren't intended to do. I'm more in the latter camp than the former, and so I think this whole hacking thing is fun. I'm not sure if I'd trade in my iPhone for an N95 right now even if they were priced the same because I'm actually enjoying the whole cat-n-mouse game.

I think the idea of getting a Nokia 800 (N810 is too expensive for me) and a small cell phone is a pretty good one. I would seriously consider it if I was thinking about my options now. But I'm happy enough with my 4GB iPhone.
 
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Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
Other side of that thinking: If you ever have an issue with the phone, you know, like the battery running out, not only is your phone dead, but so is your GPS, MP3 Player, and camera.

I'm not a fan of this and would recommend getting each item separately to keep things as modular as possible.
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I used to take that approach, and to some extent still do, but I've found that I'm trying to move in the opposite direction. I'm tired of carrying around different devices for each and every function (phone, PDA, GPS, MP3, cam). I switch from a Verizon phone earlier this year to a Palm Treo on AT&T, and that combined my phone and PDA, which was the most beneficial for me, because they were the two I used the most. Right now I still have separate MP3, GPS, and Camera devices, but I would love nothing more than to combine them all, so that I have them all at my fingertips, all the time.

There is no way on earth I would ever not have a good camera, and chances are pretty good that I'll probably always have a separate GPS device for road trips and etc., but for every day use, why bother with having a lot of devices, when you can buy one (at a usually reasonable cost), and take care of all of them? Responsibility usually takes care of problems such as low battery issues and etc. If the device fails entirely, then have some kind of fall back plan -- I have a spare GSM phone, and all of my PDA information is sync'd to files on my desktop, and then sync'd to an encrypted file that I can easily access from nearly any PC. MP3 and Cam are generally not critical, and as I said, I'd probably always have a different GPS device when I'm relying such a feature heavily.
 
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Personally, I think the E61i is the best bang for the buck from Nokia. Now if I were to spend that much on a phone, I would go with an E90.

Now if it comes down to an iPhone or an N95. I say why support companies like Apple that treat their customers like low life slaves by locking them out of stuff like the iPhone and iTunes and ...etc

Nokia gives you FULL control of what you are paying dear dollars for. TONS of 3rd party apps are available for the platform that the N95 runs on (S60 3rd edition) and Nokia keeps rolling out sweet stuff for their customers.

The N95 has the only feature that I think the E61 should have had A2DP & AVRCP support. I would kill for that :(

<---------- Wishes he were able to use his Creative SE2300 with his E61 every time he sees a shooting star.

 
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The N95 8GB is the greatest and most powerful phone right now. There will be no rival atleast for another 9 months or sure.
 
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pm

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which is illegal and generally a poor assumption
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Illegal where? Not in the USA - nor any other country that I've heard of. Just, as Newfie said, not easy.

Unlocking is legal in US:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2064707,00.asp

The iPhone is a bit weird in that you don't sign up for a contract when you buy it. You just go in to a store (Apple or AT&T) pay them and walk off with it without every agreeing to do anything with it. So if you unlock it - well, that's legal since it's your phone and there's no contract that says you need to do anything with AT&T.
 
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Originally posted by: rajkanneganti
The N95 8GB is the greatest and most powerful phone right now. There will be no rival atleast for another 9 months or sure.
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No phone marketed in America will touch the N95 8GB in 2 years.

Even now an antiquated phone like the Sony Ericsson K750i still kicks ass as idiotic Motorola is finally going 2 MP cameraphones. Hooray for crap cell phones in the US.

iPhones have better recognition, but any phone guru will know it's just decent at best although I have to admit it's a fun phone, but the lack of 3G is disturbing. However, the upside is the EDGE data plan you're paying for is cheaper than what N95 users need to pay for since it's a PDA-phone by AT&T's definitions. Ugh.

I think a similar comparison is those people who use Super Fi 5 Pros as IEMs. They're a fun pair of IEMs, but if you want accurate audio you go with Etymotic ER4s or Shure E500s or UE Triple.Fis.
 
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kedlav

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I just wish the N95 came with a proper keyboard. There's always one missing feature, no matter the phone.
 
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IHAVEAQUESTION

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i have trouble understanding why N95 is the most feature-riched phone. Shouldn't that crown goes to smartphone like blackberry or Motorola Q? What's the appeal of N95 compared to smartphones?
 
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