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Thursday, September 11, 2008

From A36 to N95

This was what I had to say about my phone roughly four years ago.

http://ythee.blogspot.com/2004/05/my-mobile-phonesiemens-a36-there-is.html

A lot has changed since then, so has my choice of mobile phones, also, my perception towards mobile phones. Initially, I resisted buying a cell phone when everyone around me had one. Primary reason was that I did not need one at that time. Eventually,I had to buy one (thanks to BSNL) because BSNL took close to 7 weeks to move our land line when we moved to a new place. I remember going to a cellphone dealer with my friend who had good experience dealing with cellphones. I tried to find the most basic GSM phone which can make and receive calls, the rep. showed me few models and the siemens A36 happened to be the cheapest (Rs 3000) and most basic. I was not too keen in getting any new phones since then until N95 was announced during late 2006. I have been following the phone waiting for the price to drop. The prices never dropped until the introduction of iphone recently. So finally, I managed to lay my hands on one. I have been using one for about a week now and it has been very exciting, so far. The phone has every convceivable(comes very very close) feature in it. WiFi-GPS combination opens up a world of opportunity for innovation. You can turn the phone into a tracking device, use it as media player, access your home media from any where, use it for navigation, internet application, control your PC/notebook, Games, VOIP, of course as a phone and the list is pretty long...

Essentially, I was looking for a one-device-do-everything solution and the Nokia N95 comes very close to doing that. The others in the race are iphone, wince / android based phones, but, they are far behind in the race in terms of features and stability. The comparison I am making here is at the phone level and not at the phone OS level. Nokia has been in the business for much longer than the others which shows up in their product's stability and packaging.

The comparison gets quite interesting :








General Status Discontinued
Network (2G) GSM 900 / GSM 1800
Form factor Block
Antenna type External


Size Weight 120 g (with battery)
Dimensions 118 x 46 x 21 mm


Display Type Alphanumeric
Lines 3
Coloured No


Memory Outgoing calls 10
Lost calls 5
Calendar notes No


Ringtones Number 15
Polyphonic ringtones No


Networking GPRS No
DATA No
USB No
Bluetooth No
WAP No
Browser No
Email client No
PC kit No


Features Vibration No
SMS Send / Receive
Camera None
Java No
Games Yes
Clock Yes
Alarm No
Calculator No
Calendar No
To-do list No
Voice dialing No
Voice memo No
T9 No
Multiple numbers / contact No
Handsfree No
Headset jack No
Changeable faces No
FM Radio No
Thermometer No
Barometer No
Interface languages Yes, 20


Standard Battery Type Ni-Mh
Amperage 600 mAh
Standby time GSM: 100h
Talk time GSM: 3h


Extended Battery Type Ni-Mh
Standby time
Talk time








General Status Available
Introduced September 2007
Network (2G) GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900 / GSM 850
Network (3G) HSDPA 2100
Form factor Dual slider
Antenna type Internal


Size Weight 125 g (with battery)
Dimensions 103 x 55 x 18 mm


Display Type Graphical
Coloured Yes, TFT, 16M colors
Size 240 x 320 pixels
- Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate


Memory Shared memory 140 MB
- Photocall
- microSD (TransFlash), up to 8GB
- 128MB RAM, 256MB system memory
- Dual ARM 9 264 MHz CPU


Ringtones Polyphonic ringtones Yes, 64
Ringtone profiles No
- Monophonic, True Tones, MP3


Networking HSDPA speed 3.6 Mbps
GPRS Yes, Class 32, 107 / 64.2 kbps
EDGE Yes, Class 32, 296 kbps; DTM Class 11, 177 kbps
WLAN Yes, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, UPnP technology
USB Yes, 2.0, microUSB
Bluetooth Yes, 2.0 with A2DP
WAP Yes
Browser Yes, WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS reader
Email client Yes
- Symbian OS 9.3, S60 rel. 3.2
- Instant Messaging
- Push to talk


Features Vibration Yes
SMS Send / Receive
MMS Send / Receive
Camera Builtin, 5 MP, 2592x1944 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, video(VGA 30fps), flash; secondary VGA videocall camera
Java Yes, MIDP 2.0
Games Yes, (changeable)
Clock Yes
Alarm Yes
Calculator Yes
Calendar Yes
To-do list Yes
Voice dialing Yes
Voice memo Yes
T9 Yes
Multiple numbers / contact Yes
Handsfree Yes
Headset jack Yes
FM Radio Yes
Interface languages Yes
- Built-in GPS receiver
- A-GPS function
- MP3/AAC/AAC /eAAC /WMA player
- 3.5 mm audio output jack
- TV out
- Organizer
- Office document viewer


Standard Battery Type Li-Ion
Amperage 950 mAh
Standby time GSM: 230h / 3G: 200h
Talk time GSM: 3h 50m / 3G: 2h 30m





and...... not surprisingly, The Nokia N95 helps you publish your blog entry :-)

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