Nokia N95

One of the main complaints on the original N95 was the mediocre battery life. Nokia has also addressed that problem by using a larger capacity 1,200mAh BL-6F battery. Does it make a difference? Yes, but only slightly. If we were to use every available feature on the phone at least once, with the typical usage pattern of making phone calls, sending text messages, taking pictures and listening to music, the cell would last us a day and a half at most. We updated our review unit with the firmware version v11.0.026, but the most remarkable improvement in the performance was actually due to the increased RAM of 128MB, which is twice the size of what's available on the original N95. That accounted for the snappy response of the unit even when multi-tasking. When we reviewed the N95 earlier this year, the onboard GPS took between 5 to 8 minutes to get a successful triangulation. A recent firmware update has enabled the Assisted-GPS feature on the N95, which now comes as a default feature on the 8GB version. Lock-on times were blazingly fast on our test unit. On average, it took about 20 to 30 seconds to get a triangulation from a cold start, and that's worth a lot of praise.