Re: N95 still better than N900
 

I had an N82, the ugly brother of N95, because of the camera, xenon flash and mechanical shutter, the rest was just like N95 8gb but with expandable memory and somewhat cheaper.

Comparing the camera makes no sense since even N86 with wide angle lens and 8 megapixels couldn't really out-photo N82.

However the camera on N900 is still a very good one and I have no regrets for choosing it.
Maybe I would have if the battery on N82 wasn't such a mess... barely made it through the day.

Re: N95 still better than N900
 

Reading this topic disappoints me about the speakers....(Expecially the comparison with the N96, that phone was terrible :p)
Oh well, you can't have everything I guess. :)

Re: N95 still better than N900
 

I have upgraded from N95, which as most of you say was an excellent phone, but to compare it against the N900 is somewhat laughable. Anything the N95 could do the N900 can do or will do (after community support) better.

I mainly text, email and browse and at this moment in time i'm happily wrapping up my N95 for ebay and cant see a reason for looking back.

Then again this is just one opinion.

Re: N95 still better than N900
 

when the n95 8gb came out it b**** slapped every device across the face ... i wish nokia would release something like that in the future ...they've done it once now lets see them do it again.... anyways back to topic ... i am a proud owner of the n95 8gb and n900 ... to me they are both great devices ... i agree that the speakers on the n95 is a little "louder" but the speaker of the n900 has less distortion when volume is max ... so far the best speakers ive heard was from the 5800 that thing is crystal clear even though it is not as loud. all in all i dont think it is fair to compare the n900 to the n95 because one is a phone and the other one is a tablet ... if you want to make a fair comparison then compare the types of phone in the same class

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I was wondering about the same ... seems like good people are working on it and already have a working solution : http://mobilehotspot.garage.maemo.org/
discussion thread : http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=30916

Re: N95 still better than N900
 

Although I've had my n900 for a few days Im still relying on my n95. Yesterday I was using it to watch the Arsenal-Man U match via Vodafone mobile TV, this morning it's alarm woke me up. It's 7.59am here right now and Im leaving to go to work (I live close to work during the week) and Im deciding which phone to bring with me - well there's no thinking about it. When it comes to phone features and functionality the n900 has 'potential', but the n95 does everything now.

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Here here, my n95-8gb is still my sat nav!!

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It may sound dumb to you guys, but I upgraded from an n80, and I have to agree. louder speakers on N80. but everything else is much better on the n900 I think!

If they can force more power to the FM transmitter, why cant they just force more power to the speakers? maybe nokia forced it low so as not to blow them out on louder songs ? as it would suck to have one blown speaker, and one good one.

Re: N95 still better than N900
 

I've still got my N95 8GB, it's a superb phone, but N900 excels where the N95 fails (or doesn't do to well), email, web browsing, widgets.

The N95 has been degraded to a simple GPS device now, hopefully in the next 6 months I won't need the N95 (I am going to miss it!).

N95 was Nokia's last BIG success, best phone I have ever used - i.e. it was actually USEFUL, and allowed me to do stuff that I actually needed rather than lots of silly crap that I forgot about after 30 seconds.

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I have the n95, i love it. the camera is hands down all around better not to mention the option to actually edit photos like i do on flickr with picnik. The speakers have spoiled me. there is not a better phone out there with better speakers than the n95. the volume rocker on the n900 and other keys are a bit of a pain. I brought my n900 in Nov. and i still haven't gotten used to the awkwardness. The Music player application is WAAAAAAY better!!!! have you ever tried to make play-lists on the n900? it is such a pain in the butt that i stopped after making 2. Even the darn TV-Out on the N95 displayed colors and images brilliantly on my flat screen. The n900? HORRIBLE! blacks show up Grey, oranges are red, etc. it doesn't look good at all. it has a dull dark over cast over everything when using the n900. on my n95 scrolling through large libraries of media and files was easy breezy. not only could i scroll with the d pad but i could also begin to type in the name of the song i was looking for. try that with the n900. ability to create apn right out of the box. FULL ABILITY TO DO FILE TRANSFER OF ALL TYPES VIA BLUETOOTH! Much love to the Faheem Pervez and any and all who played a role in bringing Petrovich to the n900. However, that should have been already apart of the phone with all the options for it. I haven't tried tethering with my laptop and n900 yet but i am not optimistic.

The Flip Side

The n900 is a flat out better device. I could list a gabillgan reasons why like: batt life (which sucked huge donkey parts on the n95), conversations app, internet experience, doesn't crash half as much as the n95, the flash support, so forth and so on. I loved my n95 and still use it (mainly because symbian has some apps that just aren't available for maemo yet) but the n900 is still waaaay better in my opinion. Not in every aspect, of course not but, but over all? the short comings pale in comparison to all the added benefits. I do however feel short changed because i would expect a device to be much better or at least match the caliber of the ones that came before it several years before it but i would definitely make the trade again. the n900 is awesome

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Sure you could compare them. what makes one more of a tablet than the other? qwerty keyboard? Larger screen? internet browsing experience? these all seem like features to me. Not necessarily a whole other class. But on the flip side the n95 kicks the n900's butt in other aspects.

As a "tablet" by nokia, the n900 should not only surpass a "smart phone" in internet experience but also in media features which combined, are supposed to be the main focus of tablets.Currently, it only excels in the internet department. Wikipedia does not have this down as being marketed as a tablet. Nokia calls it a high performance mobile computer (that is a stretch of even the most enthusiastic n900 fan despite its amazing computing abilities) and the web def. says it's a mobile internet device AND a phone. So is the n95.

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I hate to say it because I love my N900, but if I have to go away for 3 or 4 days and I need to know I won't get caught out function wise.. I'm taking the N95 8GB..

Slingplayer, Trimble Outdoors, A flash that doesn't show up on pictures, Loud speakers are all things I miss when I travel with the N900.

I'm hoping Sling & Trimble will arrive on the N900, the speakers just plain suck and I think I can fix the chrome reflecting the flash with some matt black paint..

I still rate the N95 8 GB as the most capable portable device out there.

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The call speaker volume on my N900 is woeful compared to the N95. Actually I can't even use speaker for calls cause I just can't hear. And it is not a faulty device because the speaker volume when listening to music or watching videos is actually decent.

Re: N95 still better than N900
 

I also used an N95 before I got my N900.

Actually, I think the speakers of my N900 are way better than my N95. They are much less noisy. Although I wouldn't expect anything from speakers of this size. And also, when listening to music with earphones, no hissing with N900.
(Is it possible that I had a horrible N95, or I just have an extraordinary N900? :P )

The battery life is pretty much the same on both devices. They won't last too long if you use them much. Perhaps a day of heavy to moderate use is lucky enough. However, I notiched that music playback has much less impact on the battery life of the N900 than on the N95.

And what is even more important: although the N95 was called a "multimedia computer" back then, the N900 provides a much better computer-like experience, which is by the way exactly what I expected from Linux.
(I haven't had any experience with Linux at all previously.)

Re: N95 still better than N900
 

I had the N95 8GB for 2 1/2 years and thought about changing it a couple of times, but no other phone was comparable (No Iphone, Omina HD, N96, N97, N86...). But N900 just got my eyes popped.
I have to say I'm a total Linux Noob, but I loved programming and I loved modding my N95, and maybe that gave the last push.

I have only used the N900 for a week, but I'm completely happy with it. Yes, I miss some apps. So what? I have new ones to play with. And even I might undust my brain and try to programm something on my own.

I don't even think comparing is fair for the N95. For me, they are two completely different leagues. And those small things where N95 is better are not comparable with those where N900 is WAY better.

About photos, I haven't used the camera so much. But I'll take a couple with both phones and compare. I noticed speaker is a little low, but not really a problem for me. And I'm using a MP3 as ringtone, with full volume, and no cracklings. As Venemo said, battery is more or less the same.

What else can I say? I love my N900 and will never go back to the N95.

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Yeah, same here. I got the same feeling when I first saw the N900's videos in the last summer. And this week I actually managed to buy one. :)

NO cracklings! And that's very good. The N95 couldn't do that.

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The speakes of the N95 8GB really rock the boat - I haven't heard anything like them in ANY other phone. Too bad Nokia did not pursue the same strategy with the N900.

Re: N95 still better than N900
 

Actually slightly off the path - but the speakers on the N810 (previous Maemo tablet) actually put even the N95 speakers to shame .. it was that good.

Its a shame the N900 couldn't carry the same N810 speakers - but size constraints (N900 is a smaller device) do put a limitation.

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Full Skype for Symbian is just recently released, I am trying it out now.

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can u go to hell?

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I'm also one of those users, who used N95 8Gb for few years before now migrating to N900. N95 was with full potential and N95 8GB was finally the device, which worked properly and had great form factor, great camera and rocked the world untill iPhone started to make waves.

Disappointment for me with N95 8Gb was that Nokia dumped it quite fast and it wasn't interesting and powerfull as a platform for third party developers -- making it useless in terms of platform virality and gaining new usages via downloading new interesting software. Even though the phone was not that old, I felt that I was already second or third class citizen for Nokia as the world had moved on, where as original iPhone users could still get software updates and new software for their device from Apple.

For me N958Gb was a solid device, but rather stupid as a smart phone. Battery life was also poor if you really started to use the device a lot, taking photos with flash etc - which is understandable.

Now I am having high hopes for n900, because it already is at this early stage really good device and software available for it allows me to do much more than on many other devices. I'm keen to see what happens of Android platform and might buy a cheap Android device for testing device, but at the moment it looks like N900 is the best mobile device you can get... if you are a geek socialite like I am :-D