The Nokia n95 Taste Test
I’ve been using a Nokia 6682 for the last year so the UI is pretty simple to navigate, actually it’s 90% the same as the 6682 it just has a few more features, a screen that slides in two directions and can be displayed vertically or horizontally. It also has many more cool animations and ring tones.
After “Day One” I have all of my preferences setup although I would like to create a few more photo capture profiles. One thing that isn’t so easy whipping out the phone and snapping a shot instantly. It takes a while to open the camera shutter, get a picture, take the shot, then have it display correctly. Taking sequential shots by selecting such in the preferences is possible, it’s just a pain to point and shoot quickly on the fly. One cool thing is that you can assign an album to the photos being taken and when you upload those photos to Flickr it automatically pops in a tag with the album name.
We’ll see how the next couple of days turn out. My photos will be in the Flickr set “Nokia n95 Trial” and I’ll be uploading videos to my blip.tv account, Miss604.blip.tv.
The theme is “our commute” so we’ll see how much info the five of us can produce with these phones over the next week. I’m pretty much all on foot crossing town so I’ll try to take a different route every day, mix it up with a bus here and there, and see what I can share.
Update: Day 2 - I tried a quick little video on the bus, the quality is superb.
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October 2nd, 2007 at 12:49 pm
taste test, that’s a great way to put it!
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:53 pm
You wrote “it’s just a pain to point and shoot quickly on the fly.”
What else is a cell phone camera *for*? Sheesh. Way to go, Nokia.
October 2nd, 2007 at 1:16 pm
I’m a “Vancouver techno geek”? I resemble that remark!
I don’t think a week’s enough time to delve deep enough into what’s possible, esp. with the GPS functionality, so I agree, ‘taste test’ is a good way to describe it.
October 2nd, 2007 at 2:01 pm
Whoa you are learning all the tricks! I am just starting to get it figured out (thanks for the tip on the charger adapter - though mine was $3.79 not $1.79) and agree that the camera is slow but on the good side the photos are great. I gotta figure out the automagic photo album trick and get Shozu installed, etc. … will keep fiddling.
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:33 pm
Can we request flavors of pictures-themes to run through them in addition to being on your way to work? Like water? I was reminded of it by your pictures of the rain. Vancouver has lots of great fountains, but beyond that-and your Stanley Park posts speak to this-it also has a great sense of naturalism. That makes for great flow and creates little storms-within-a-storm under signs and awnings and trees and along roadsides. The logic of puddles reveals paths.
But I’m also a water geek, so that’s where that comes from. By the way, the pictures have been looking great so far.
October 2nd, 2007 at 4:25 pm
I’m jealous. Not so much that she got the phone as much as the phone having better (potential) photo quality than the Canon S230 that I picked up nearly five years ago. Crazy technology…
October 2nd, 2007 at 4:26 pm
I’ll let you play with it
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:48 pm
Well, John, I’m jealous too, but she probably won’t let me play with it :(.
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:14 am
[...] All photos below are taken with my trial Nokia n95. [...]
October 8th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
[...] arrive. I didn’t have any wifi access so I couldn’t log in and check MyBus from my Nokia N95. I did the next best thing and called my sister to see if she was near a computer and could look up [...]
October 9th, 2007 at 11:03 am
[...] I have to give back my Nokia n95. It was super fun while it lasted (check out the video or photos). The others who participated may [...]
October 16th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
nice merong pinoy… yeah i have n95 too im in surrey. its a really cool phone .it depends when or how you use it. . its not thats slow when it comes on user interface but this is the fastest response ive ever see. but its much more cooler if fido will introduce a 3g in here. and one more thing. unlimited data plan for new owners… but asusual nokia had release again an n95 8g. i ecpected that this thing will happen. but then i was really surprise that nokia didnt just add and “i” next to the new n95. just like e62 and then thay release a e62i.lol..
October 17th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
[...] N95 phone for 8 days and used it to create a group project so to speak in which Roland, Richard, Rebecca, Kris and I all documented part of the Vancouver commute experience in order to try out different [...]
October 19th, 2007 at 10:17 am
[...] received an email this morning inquiring about my N95 Taste Test so here’s some more [...]
October 29th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
I just bought this phone and I am waiting for the shipment. I wanted to see the video quality, and I noticed that you take the same #6 bus ride as me, maybe I will see you on there some time! Techy Geeks of Vancouver Unite!
November 6th, 2007 at 10:45 am
[...] received a bunch of cool, free things because of blogging; from my cell phone(s) to movie passes, and this is definitely one thing I’m glad to add to the [...]
December 24th, 2007 at 11:27 am
just wondering…how can u get free stuff???
January 5th, 2008 at 3:00 am
you need to check out the capabilities of the movement sensor. Not many people know that you can navigate you phone by movements, control an RC car with the phone (using movements) and the best thing, turn it into a light sabre. The N95 is the mutts nuts and it beats the over hyped iPhone anyday.
January 15th, 2008 at 1:14 am
And use Wavelog to post text, photos, videos and sound to your blog!
http://www.telewaving.com
July 20th, 2008 at 10:23 am
Nice blog, i have added it to my favourites, greetings
November 7th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
I’ve used Wavelog 2 since couple of weeks and it makes mobile blogging with multimedia content so simple from Nokia phones.