Thread: A funny anti-iPhone article
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2007-07-29 , 11:03
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Originally Posted by andymulhearn View Post
Was there anything you liked about it?

Some reviews I've read suggest the N95 is rather expensive, slow and has poor battery life. Have you found that to be the case?

Personally, having used an N70 I think Series 60 is an invention of Satan, though it's less horrible on the N95 (I played with a friend's for a few minutes and it's definitely better than it was) and some of that had to do with the crap Orange overlaid on it. But having to keep the store of called and dialed numbers to less than 10 or it failed to pickup really put me off smart phones and I now use an SE k800i.
Yes, there are a lot of things I like about the iPhone. It substantially raises the bar for UI fluidity and out of the box intuitiveness. I just happen to think that all its shortcomings make it a device I don't need to own.

Some reviews suggest the N95 is expensive? The N95 is $650-750. That it is expensive is self obvious, but for some people expense is not a significant consideration and only functionality and other concerns need be weighed. I have found the device UI to be quite quick and responsive at pretty much every task save picture taking. It takes 3-6 seconds after taking an image to cycle through and be ready to take another image. The battery life depends greatly on how you are using it. If you are listening to mp3's, taking pictures, using Bluetooth and Wifi all the time and using the GPS, it is going to suck a lot more power than if you just use the phone as...a phone. I do a fair amount of all of the above (except GPS use, really) during the day and find that putting it on the charger at night before I go to bed is usually enough to get me through the next day. I would have prefered they make the device a little larger to accommodate a beefier battery and a SDHC card slot instead of the Micro SD slot , but you can't have everything I guess.