So I’ve had my Treo 600 for 4 or 5 years now ever since they first came out. When I first got my Treo I absolutely loved it but as time went on well… there were newer and cooler phones out. Steph got a new Blackberry through work about a year ago so stopped using her Treo and then earlier this month one of the chargers for the Treo broke…. I took that as a sign and decided to stop putting of the inevitable and just go buy a new phone.
I’ve had my eye on a number of phones/pdas over the last 2 years…. the Cingular 8525, the Treo 700p, the iPhone while they each had their pluses and minuses I decided eventually to settle on the Nokia N95. This had all the features I wanted and is only lacking in one small way.
Here is a quick summary of the features…
“GSM, EDGE and 3G support
WIFI 802.11b/g support
Bluetooth (GPS, keyboard, or as a modem)
MicroSD (comes with a 1G card but I bought an extra 2G)
GPS with voice navigation (via internal GPS antenna or external bluetooth device)
infrared
5 Mega Pixel camera with flash and lens cover
Video recorder capable
2nd camera on the front
supports video conferenceing
MP3 music player
MP4 video player
FM radio
Internet Tellephone (VOIP)
Internet browser based on the web kit engine
Flash Lite
Java J2ME applications
email (POP & IMAP)
contacts/IM/Video IM/calendar/notes/to do/ (and it syncs to Outlook)
PDF reader
MS Office document support (Word, Excel, Power Point)
Zip File support
bar code reader (using the camera)
Voice recorder
Oh yeah I almost forgot the best part… It’s also a cell phone.
Here is a photo of my new phone next to my old Treo
The front cover/screen can slide up/left to work in portrait mode and reveal the phone keypad, or down/right to work in landscape mode and reveal the media player controls. Now to top it all off the N95 is quite a bit smaller than my Treo (and it doesn’t have the antenna sticking up)
I haven’t had a chance to really play with all of the features yet but I am looking forward to testing them all out on our trip to St. Louis next week. Oh and that one thing that is lacking… the N95 does not have a full alpha keyboard like the Treo or a BlackBerry so you have to use the standard telephone keypad to enter alpha characters.
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