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Nokia N95

Nokia N95 is the leader of thhe multimedia smartphone line by the company, and also the first HSDPA Nseries device. It represents a double sided slider - that means parts slide in both up and down directions. The smartphone is equipped with a GPS module and 5MP camera. It uses Carl Zeiss optics and allows recording DVD quality video clips (30 fps). Other interesting features include a QVGA display showing 16M colours, stereo loudspeaker, 3.5 mm audio connector and a memory slot for microSD. LAN, EDGE and WCDMA, and UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) standards add to HSDPA.

Class: smartphone, 3G, multimedia, leader
Position in the line: above Nokia N93
Rivals: no for the announcement time
The price forms 700-750 Euros
Description based on official information

General features
- Announced in 2007 , official announcement on the 26 September 2006
- eGSM 900/1800/1900, WCDMA 2100/HSDPA
- Battery type 950 mAh Li-Ion (BL-5F)
- Battery life:
- High-contrast graphical display, 2.6", 16М colours (TFT), the resolution of 240x320 pixels (QVGA)
- 5 dimensional navigation button
- Run by Symbian OS version 9.1 (interface S60 3 edition, FP1)
- Weight: 120 gramms
- Dimensions: 99x50x20 mm

Memory
- User memory forms about 160 MB
- Memory connector for miсroSD
- You can assign a photo to a number
- For each name you can store Name and Surname (two lines), Company name, Position, Phone number, Mobile, Fax and E-mail address — totally 8 fields. Add any number of fields.
- No limit on the number of user groups, a capability to assign a name to several groups at the same time
- SIM entries are stored separately, so that you can't view them at the same time with the phone's memory
- Call lists, no limits on the number of entries, all entries have the type specified besides time and duration. Set a storage period for calls in the list (a month by default)

Call management, ringing tones
- Vibracall
- 64-tones polyphonic call melodies, True Tones, supported formats include AAC, eAAC+, MP3, RealAudio, WAV, NB-AMR, WB-AMR (stereo loudspeaker)
- Voice dial doesn't depend on the pronounciation, no need in recording tags preliminarily
- Speakerphone
- Call duration is shown during a conversation
- Melody editor, assign melodies to names

SMS
- Predictive call input Т9
- Message templates (you can change them or add own ones)
- Sending and receiving graphical messages
- Concatenated messages

Camera
- Integrated camera 5.0 MP (the maximum resolution of 2592 x 1944 pixels)
- Autofocus
- Records video clips MPEG4/Н.263 (the maximum resolution of 640x480 pixels)
- Flash
- Digital zoom 20x
- Effects, macromode
- Frontal CIF-camera for video calls

Multimedia
- Stereo FM-radio, Visual Radio
- 3.5 mm connector for personal earphones
- Extra buttons for multimedia control
- 3GPP Video Streaming
- RealOne Player: playback of RealMedia and 3GPP-compatible files
- The player supports the following formats: eAAC+, AAC+, M4A, MPEG-4 ACC LC, LTP, MP3, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, 64 polyphonic MIDI, WMA.
- Records sound from both linear input and integrated radio
- Java (MIDP 2.0), 3D API (JSR-184)
- Themes

Connectivity
- GPS-module, preinstalled application - Maps, provides more than 100 maps
- WAP 2.0
- Bluetooth v.2.0 EDR supports A2DP
- WiFi (802.11 b/g) (UPnP)
- GPRS class 10
- EGPRS (Multislot class 32, class B)
- E-mail protocols: SMTP, POP3, IMAP4 - attachments
- MMS
- Synchronization with PC
- SyncML
- SMIL
- PIM-functions
- IrDA
- USB 2.0 via miniUSB (USB Mass Storage)
- MTP - allows synchronization with Windows Media Player
- PoC or PTT
- Instant Messaging
- VideoCall

Organizer and extras
- Image and multimedia may be transmitted to the screen of various gadgets. The cable ends in usual tulip-like connectors. The following standards are supported: PAL, NTSC.
- User profiles, temporary profile
- Time, date
- Calculator, currency converter
- Stopwatch (up to 20 intermediate values), countdown timer
- Organizer supports various events, you can set a reminder
- To-do list
- Dictaphone
- Photoalbum - advanced gallery
- Games