Wednesday, February 20, 2008

N95 8GB arrives

I had to take my son to the doctors this morning, everything was fine but it somewhat displaced my day. When I finally turned up at work just before midday there was a very pleasant surprise sat on my desk! No it wasn't a pole dancing usb device, or even a Whatleydude with a new Mobster, it was a new Nokia N95 8GB Spiderman Edition

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Nokia really are getting pretty hot at consumer packaging, I couldn't wait to rip this baby open (although quite carefully as I wouldn't want to effect the residual value).

Taking off the outer Spidey sleeve we are left with a more conventional Nokia box



Flipping the lid on that almost provides access to the showcased device.



Before going any further I should explain what about the N95 8GB has drawn my attention so far from my beloved standard N95. It may be suprising that it isn't the enlarged memory on the new device, I had a large Micro SD card in my old Nokia and I never filled it up. The look and feel of the N95 8GB is great and I love the bigger screen, but the clinchers for me were the widget support, flash-lite 3 embedded in the browser (yes I can now watch YouTube videos live in the webpage on the full youube.com) and longer battery life.

The inclusion of Spiderman 3 was also not a key feature, but it was the first thing I launched on the device. There is a warning associated with the included feature film though, if you upgrade the firmware on your device or reset it to factory settings you will no longer be able to play the movie as you will wipe out the DRM license file. So it is highly recommended that the first thing you do after unboxing the new phone is to peform a complete backup the device, which I do find pretty amusing.




Now I've installed all my favourite apps on the device and I'm ready to go.

3 comments:

Whatley said...

You never learn do you?!

HYPERLINK BITCH!

My name to my blog, Mobsters to the Flickr group, pole dancing usb device? Where from?!!!

...aside from that? Nice blog - ;)

Unknown said...

apologies Whatley, you are so right. I've updated the post.

Anonymous said...

Seeing these kind of posts reminds me of just how technology truly is everywhere in this day and age, and I am fairly confident when I say that we have passed the point of no return in our relationship with technology.


I don't mean this in a bad way, of course! Societal concerns aside... I just hope that as technology further advances, the possibility of uploading our brains onto a digital medium becomes a true reality. It's a fantasy that I dream about almost every day.


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