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Was looking for a new phone but hubby heard heard some negative reviews on the N95 and showed me the following

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Question:     My new Nokia n95 arrives today, anybody currently using one and if so what do you think?

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• T-mobile are collecting mine tomorrow due to very poor speaker quality (crackly/tinny) and turning itself off randomly...

• The slider can be a bitch - going loose after very little use.

• Mine's been nothing but grief. The phone keeps switching itself on and off, the keypad will unlock/lock itself when it wants, the vibrating alert doesn't work, the menu will sometimes open the gallery when I try to open the clock, the battery only lasts a couple of days, and I'm not a heavy user. But the worst thing is that a lot of the time when making/receiving a call the person on the other end can't hear me, so I have to hang up, restart the phone, and call again!
  On paper it's a brilliant bit of kit, and I'm sure it would be if it worked properly! I know a few people who have had nothing but problems with them, so I don't think I got the only dud

• Yeah I forgot I get that, where the person can’t hear me at the other end of the call... have to switch the phone off and on...

• I really liked the phone itself, however what I didn't like was the fact that it wouldn't communicate with my car kit properly

• That's another problem with mine it won't connect to my blue-tooth headset!

• My brother works for Vodafone and said it is the most sent back phone they have ever had, so I decided not to get one and stick with my k800

• I have the above mentioned problems too ... time to ring o2 and give them hell

• My first, second and third phones have all had the same earpiece crackle, so in the end I've returned the third phone to a Nokia Service Centre where hopefully they will be fitting an upgraded part but Nokia just don't seem to build them very well these days.

• It’s a very nice phone but very very slow!!

• The phones always been voted slow & keeps crashing...

• I have a few mates who have had the phone & have given it back or sold it on E-Bay...

• I was considering this for my next phone but I don't think I'll bother reading all this! I currently have an N73 which has had quite a lot of problems, plus the Symbian OS is really slow and still full of bugs even though I have the latest firmware. I agree that the Nokia build quality & software is not up to scratch these days L

Hope you have better luck!

Hi,

The version of TomTom you require for the Nokia N95 is TomTom Navigator 6 for PDAs and Mobiles. You can get a DVD with all maps of Europe for about £87 I believe. You'd still then need to get a memory card separately. Alternatively, you can purchase a version with maps for a specific country already installed on a card. Ensure you get the right type of card for your device. Personally, my preference would be for the DVD, because if you change devices with incompatible memory cards, you're a bit stuck.

TomTom Navigator 6 won't work with the inbuilt GPS receiver on the N95 though - it HAS to be an external Bluetooth job, as that's all that TomTom is geared up to look for, at present.

I run Navigator 6 on my Sony Ericsson W950, and also on my Sony Ericsson P1 (which hasn't been released yet - coming very soon - I happen to develop software for Sony Ericsson by the way), and it's a truly brilliant product (so's the P1 by the way!! - a truly truly cracking device). It works very well on the Sony Ericsson phones, but be aware that Navigator 6 will ALSO run on some devices that are not mentioned in the official TomTom list (eg SE P990 and M600 - they just won't support them, but that doesn't mean they won't work. Whar you are looking for if you want a Symbian device is something running either UIQ 3.0 upwards, or Nokia Series 60 version 3 and upwards. eg. Nokia N95.

I can't speak for the N95, for or against, as I haven't laid hands on one yet. If you Google for it I'm sure you'll find opinions for and against - best idea is to try one in a shop yourself and ensure you can return it if it's dodgy.

http://www.tomtom.com/products/category.php?ID=2&Language=1&TT=7a1281ac%3Ababa37bd%3A00000000%3A00000000%3A00000000%3A00000000%3Alnsr8273282olbrl1v0vprghn6

Cheers, Simon

Thanks everyone, i also have seen the bad reviews, i have had mine for 2 weeks, i think its a real phone apart from battery but whats on the phone 5m camera etc certainly makes up for it, thanks for all the advise on tomtom,

well that is all a bit negative really.

I have used an N70 for the last year or so and took delivery of the N95 today, came complete with the latest firmware and I have no issues in phone calls, messaging or the camera /multimedia.

It connects to my WLAN fine and is fine on the 3G signal too.

Maybe I got lucky???