![MrMobile [Michael Fisher]](http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e?s=80&r=g&d=mm){kind=avatar}
It feels like an odd time to bring back βWhen Phones Were Fun.β After all, 2020 has been one of the most interesting years in mobile tech history: Motorola finally …
source
Copyright (c) 2020 – All rights reserved.
When Phones Were Fun: Nokia N95
ADVERTISEMENT
Had one of these, loved it!
My first phone was Motorola Razer, Nokia 5300, HTC TYTN, Sidekick slide, HTC My Touch, Samsung Galaxy S3, Samsung Note Edge, Samsung Galaxy S8+, Now Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra π
Phones were fun, times were fun back in 2000s. No doubt! Miss and cherish those times.
Please do a Nokia 6700 slide…
not gonna lie, that N95 update is deadass something i would rock as a daily driver
I feel lucky because I get to play Sonic N on my beloved eldest sister's black Nokia N95 when I was 9 years old, back in 2010! I'd like to revive my childhood memories with Nokia, which means buying Nokia 9 PureView after I start working as an ambulance driver one day! ?
Just wont subscribe a channel forcing 2 ads in the begining
i wish i have my nokia ngage today. i miss that weird ass phone
This was literally the first smartphone I got and I used it for a very long time (even when the iPhone 4s was released and booming).
It's still sad to see Nokia fail after releasing this phone, which happened because they never accounted for touchscreens to be the main user input for mobiles devices and thus pushed their N95 and future models.
However the N95 truly was revolutionizing the smartphone industry. You could install any app you wanted unlike the OG iPhone that come out around the same time. Since Symbian (the Phone OS) was already on the market for a few years, there were tons of apps and games available on the N95. Like YouTube, GBA emulators or even some online MMORPG games. Heck there was even a real-time-hexeditor which allowed you to hack in games just like CheatEngine did on PC.
Apps like Palringo were super popular on these devices, because you could chat around the world without much hassle (and with the built-in WiFi mostly for "free").
You could even install themes and if you were lucky some of them had a lot of included icons even for 3rd party apps.
There was even software for the PC that made it possible to flash the firmware.
And the camera was bonkers at the time.
The only downside to this phone was the freaking battery door that was broken every time on every single N95 that I saw. I literally gave up after the third door and just taped it.
(And if IIRC the buttons for the two main menus seen beside the arrow key were actually mixed up… π so the button with the rotary menu that wasn't featured on the video was accessed with the right button and vice versa)
It was my 3rd symbian phone before I got N96
You need to also review it's "competitor" from that time: the sony ericsson k850i
BTW I might be wrong, but am I right?
Were you once a SymbianFreak forum member?
It seems to me I remember you from there?
And the slider problems π
I had one of theses amazing
Yeah i had one, it was cool. gps navigation, walkman, so cool
So N95 was for the iPhone, what Xerox Park was for the Mac. Hmmm, do I see a pattern here?
Deym… I want n95!!!
I never actually owned a Nokia N95 but I still remember it being a beast and truly and end of an era for the legendary Nokia brand as the first iPhone came out that same year and the mobile market was never the same again. It's kinda sad how Nokia faded away after this.
Nokia made every innovation ever dreamt of in mobile industry. And iphone users will never accept it
I had – and still have my N95 8 GB – Loved that phone. Bought it new, unlocked, no priceplan, just ponied up the dough… used that thing for over 6 years, had it as main-phone beyond the start of the smartphone-era. I finally moved to the motorola nexus 6 in 2015.
Funny… or rather strange – story: I had to change carriers, in I forget which year, because I was getting a bug that couldn't be resolved by changing the battery, doing factory reset, doing every update I could find… Whenever the phone had a cell-connection, it would reboot itself. Sometimes it would just loop-reboot, other times it would stay on for a few minutes then reboot. The frequence of how often it rebooted seemed related to how strong the signal was – I work at sea and did back then too – out at sea or in flightmode, the phone was fine. Getting close to shore when the signal started coming in, the rebooting started. Being in port, or even in a big city center, the phone was completely useless, it would just reboot-loop and as I said, changing the carrier fixed this. I never found out what caused this mystery. It just suddenly started one day, and I've had that same carrier for years. This was all in Sweden btw. Around… 2012 or 2013 I think. Maybe 2014.
I can't believe that 2007 was 76 years ago
My front facing camera kind was N-70 I bought it in 2007 or 2008 I think
Can I buy these phones today?
Its 5mp camera still better than today's so called flagship phones
I love these retro product videos! That feeling of nostalgia and the reminder of just how ahead of the times some of these phones were and that gravitated me so naturally towards this video. It strucked me with a sense of dejavu and brought me back to that very moment I held the phone in my hands all those years ago and wondered why there was the need for a front facing camera, never realising how big selfies would become or the fact these cameras would one day be instrumental to the way people held meetings because of a pandemic. Oh I love this!!! And by this, I mean this video!
Nokia led the foundation of what modern smartphone standing today .
I also use this phone 2016 ??
I had (maybe still have) the Nokia N82. I think its almost the same phone but in a diffrent format. Loved the camera, the button on the lensprotection but the thing i still miss is the real (xeon) flash. Just saw old pics from a night out and the reach of the flash is amazing. Also no blurry people due to soft ledflash.
I recall wanting Nokia N90 so badly for it's awesome design but the price were too high back then and I am still barely teen (with the flip and side camera and me jealous of seeing other people own one. By the time I managed to save up enough for N series, the spec of N90 obselete and I go for N95 8GB (Black) instead cause it was the best Nokia you can have back then with great memories (the ribbon cable tend to break due to sliding) till today I still have the N95 8GB in my drawer. Too many wonderful memories with it.
I had black 8gb version with spiderman movie built in. I messed up though by deleting the section that was like a diary and it cleared my whole phone, lost all my pictures and videos
Oh yes nostalgia in the neck vain, I have back up dvds with N95 videos and shit hahaa very cool phone in the day. Corner room neighbors no password wifi downloading mp3 π 08-09 hell yeah!
If HMD release that N95, it will be my next phone! Provided they keep the OS as close to stock as possible.
remembered lookin at it in the phone magazines back then, it was so expensive i could not even imagine to buy one. lookin at it now, makin me wanna ditch my S8 and get it lol. DONT do it
Nokia has a new cell phone:the 8000 4G
I used N95 as my daily drivers n then upgraded my phone to N97. I have good memories using both devices and playing around with Symbian OS. But of course, looking back, the iPhone would have blown both of these devices out of the water when it comes to apps n ease of use. But i guess i m weird to stick with it for a looong time until it died.
Oh boy those mini discs β¨??
I lived that era .. and trust me phones weren't fun at all , all u can do is call and play snake ?
TV OUTPUT CABLE
Ahhhh I miss my Nokia N95 ?
I've always said the N95 is the best phone I've ever used to date n I change phone every 8 months
I had this phone and what a phone it was for that time
I loved my N95 and N96 ?
I remember selling these phones in 2007 through Rogers in Canada, the thing was SO expensive, even on a 3 year contract I remember it costing people like $300 upfront. This was an era where you could get a BlackBerry for $0 on a 3 year voice/3g plan.
The phone was definitely the coolest thing until the iPhone dropped later that year.