Thank you Michael. Hearing this means more than you might realize, coming from someone who's work I greatly admire. I love your narrative style and honesty. Your support is extremely encouraging.
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Come to Jesus Christ today Jesus Christ is only way to heaven Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today John 3:16-21 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. Mark 1.15 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Hebrews 11:6 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Jesus
Speaking of which; I loved my N-Gage QD at the time. It fixed all the design problems of the first hardware version. I got mine for 50 USD with an MMC card that I used to pirate a bunch of the N-gage games. This was before the PSP so being able to play THPS and Tomb Raider on the train was really impressive.
The Symbian OS was amazing for it's time. People pretend like smarthphone's only came out with the Iphone/Android yet they were already there almost 10 years before that.
@@mesicek7 I think that a big part of that is a North American bias, where the Symbian smartphones were not as popular as in Europe and Asia, and the Rim Blackberries were the predominant smartphones. Other than that there is also a sense of smartphones meaning multitouch devices and the Iphone being a start of a new era.
The Stephen Elop thing was an obvious episode of a corporate Trojan horse. He moved to Nokia from Microsoft and made the baffling and hugely risky decision to make them go all-in with Windows Mobile instead of going with Android or even developing Maemo/Meego further. When it inevitably failed, he sold Nokia to Microsoft for almost nothing, and took a job back with Microsoft again. It should have been illegal. And Nokia’s board should have seen it coming. Nokia today should be one of the “big three” with Samsung and Apple. It should be leading Europe’s tech sector. Stephen Elop made sure it wasn’t.
Nokia's board and shareholders approving and making those decisions. Ofc they didn't see it coming, because nothing was coming in first place, they all been there in place.
@@kreuner11that part was made popular when Microsoft was trying to develop Java then tried to make proprietary extensions to make sure their version of Java is the only version developers would prefer, hence the Embrace and Extend part. Maybe they forgot to include this during Elop's time.
The N95 is probably the best ever phone made by Nokia. I remember my mom had one. How it has WLAN not only maked it good for 2007 standards, but also how this phone has a 5MP camera.
Thanks for the great video! This was truly one of the most legendary smart devices ever made. I wanted one but I never was able to get the N95, years later I did get the N79, then the N97 mini, then the N8... And at one point I was daily-driving them all at once while everyone around was getting on the iPhone and Android train. I eventually used the Norton hack on all of them. The N97 mini is gone now sadly, but the N79 and N8 are still kicking. Keep up the great work!
Thanks so much! I'm glad you enjoyed this. You reminded me that there was also a mini version of the N97. That was kinda unusual for the time to have that option.
a couple of months ago, i brought my N95-1 to a school trip everyone was like ''how old is that??'' ''can it play snake?''... i took a lot of photos with it, and it shows how good the camera is, even today also i have a nokia phone collection, with 23 different models
Omg. 23 models! I didn't have the legendary N95 but I had a N80 (not to be confused with the more recent N8) that my uncle gave me after seeing I was so amazed with it. It was an amazing phone and even though the battery was probably defective and not lasting very long, I loved every moment I had with that phone. Do you have a N80 in your collection? How do you like it?
@@StingnB unfortunately i don't have an N80 :( it is quite similar to my N70 tho, which i really like (but my unit isn't in great condition unfortunately) it's basically the predecessor to the n95 btw also, it seems like that, for whatever reason, they are quite rare here in Italy, and i mainly get phones from flea markets and thrift shops, often for really cheap: i once got a Lumia 630 for 2 Euros!
Two things I can think of worth mentioning. 1. You could multitask and switch between/close apps by holding the left menu key (from memory). 2. Nokia had an experimental app that was actually a self hosted social page that ran on the phone. From memory it ran as a web server. Was AGES ago but might be worth trying to dig up as would probably make an interesting video.
that was the Lifeblog app. It was an ambitious social media and a privacy nightmare since it can share almost anything you do on your phone. But hey, 2007, no one really bats an eye on privacy.
I've been looking at old Nokia Nseries stuff for the past week and here you are dropping this. I wanted N95 so much as a kid. You're one of my favorite retro ytubers. Thank you for sharing!
I was a kid and i remember that the head designer of the N Series was an Argentine called Axel Meyer. In an interview he said that under his team he had many professionals in many areas. If i remember correctly, he said that the idea of using an LED in a previous phone as a lantern came from an English anthropologist in his team. That wasn't common like it's today. Just a fun fact.
@@JessicaFEREMdid early phone LEDs have a risk of dying early from that i wonder? i don’t remember hearing anything about that but i was a kid at the time
@@davidbowman2001nope, white LEDs were already mature enough by then. The Nokia 1100 even had one. It didn’t get particularly hot like on modern phones so they probably didn’t drive it that hard. It definitely drained the battery though!
How so? They released the N95 the same year as the iPhone (that future of the phone market), when switching to touch screen they went with the dated resistive touch technology and decided to stick with Symbian OS for so long it nearly killed the company. When switching OS they weren't even in tune with the market enough to pick Android but instead tried to push a useless Windows phone OS. After making the N95, arguably the best phone of the old world, they literally made every wrong decision they could possibly make.
@@ErikSWEyeah they persisted for too long with Symbian, and in a snap android wiped them away, at least in europe. Had Nokia N95 8GB, 200€ with contract, thought there wouldn’t be any phone more expensive and capable 😀 Few years later switched to first touch, HTC Wildfire, sadly (almoast) never looked back to Nokia, still in the early years I was hoping that they’ll switch to Android to catch the train, but when they did it was too late.
I worked on the graphics acceleration for this phone, and that glitzy 3D menu when you slide out the media keys. This phone was a beast, with amazing graphics power for the time; I wish the Nokia engineers could have had free rein to push what it could do.
A nice trip down the memory lane. That Snakes game is amazing even today. I had an N95 briefly at the time, while replacing the phone body for a boss, well, only bosses could afford it back then. I had an N73, and Symbian became usable by everyone only with 6120 Classic, which was fast and small enough to win the hearts of IT people, who had preferred S40 before.
@@oskar6747 i remember its cost so much :D but some providers like Vodafone,Orange, T-Mobile in my country make offer if you make 2year contract you can get one for 1euro :D i had all N-Nokias and i love them
@@oskar6747 Where was that, in Finland? I worked in a Foxconn factory in 2008 in Hungary, making lower end phones for Nokia (I remember one particular mp3 player phone being extremely popular at that time). And we made about $225/month (80000 Hungarian Forint). Also I think that was with overtime, but I can't remember that for 100% now. 12 hour long shifts: one daytime shift, then one night time shift, then two days off, and start again. I was there for two months, and if I had to stay any longer I would have gone postal, and set the place on fire, or do something bad. I have absolutely no idea how people can do these kind of jobs without going insane. Also it needless to say none of us had an N95 lol.
@@kosztaz87 It was in Salo. I wasn't a regular hired by Nokia but I worked there for little over a year maybe two at most. All the regulars looked like they hated their lives and were the lowest producing workers there, but on our side we were mostly young and had quite a good atmosphere. The pay was ok. I can't remember the numbers anymore, but maybe 2-3k Eur/month without overtime. Some worked in four shifts and some in five. I think the other had same shift for two or three days and the other for a week. 8h long shifts.
This phone was able to make video calls even that long ago. Where as the first iphone didn't even have a front camera. It was indeed a game changing feature at that time.
Video calls had been a feature on 3G phones for about 5 years by that point. I recall a news item about the actual first video-calling phone in 2001, or maybe it was 2002. Hardly anyone used it, though, because of the large costs to do a video call over 3G. People preferred to use Skype over wifi on a laptop or PDA, or on the few phones with wifi like this. Even when Apple introduced FaceTime many years later, most people still just used them on wifi for a long time. It wasn’t until mobile carriers stopped charging extra for it, and treated it the same as any other mobile data, that people started to video call on 4G more.
@@JanusCycle I personally like the silver version more. Btw, you can easily debrand your nokia n95 with phoenix (I preder it) or JAF in just a few minutes if you have a windows 7 laptop.
@@ophtalmology have you ever used this software to flash Nokia phones? It still work today? I have some needing sw reflash, one turns on but bootloop. The only time i reflashed Nokia phones was back when the original Nokia tools and servers were working.
@@IsmaelWensder yes, I reflashed my Nokia E66 less than a month ago. The biggest challenge was to find the right firmware because most of the websites hosting it were down, and the programming software can be easily found. Official Nokia software isn’t working, but that is not the problem, Phoenix and JAF will do the job just fine. If you find the necessary firmware you can reinstall it anytime even without connection to the internet.
I had one of these for years, even didn’t buy the first gen iPhone because it didn’t do half the things I could do on my N95, especially once you started installing third party software on it. You could even make wifi hotspots with it and tether your laptop over it using third party software. Pictures I took on that phone still hold up today.
yeah, i think later nokia phone came bundle with that (still 3rd party app) but iirc tethering over USB was standard on nokia with symbian but iirc you need a Nokia PC suite for the driver
@@Banom7a Bundle may have been region specific cos I wasnt aware of it. If I remember correctly, the wifi tethering software I was using was Joikuspot for the wifi hotspot, The email client was “Profimail” by Lonely Cat Games, which i still remember for absolutely no reason at all and was better than the built in client. One funny story I remember was, Tomtom made a version of their satnav for nokia S60 but intended you to use it with an external bluetooth GPS. The N95 had built in GPS but it wouldn’t use it, however, one of the software pirate groups back in the day who cracked this software also posted it with some kind of background program to run which would connect the internal GPS to tomtom, and thus the pirate version was better than the official one, so naturally that’s what I was using.
What a great video, thank you! IIRC, the N95 was tagged the first phone to be praised by journalists/reporters as they used to gather video news. Did the N95 also include a FM transmitter with RDS to listen to your MP3 files on the car stereo?
I don't think the N95 has an FM transmitter. But hidden FM TX in phones is a thing and I might have a few brands/models that I can activate this function on. It's a topic I want to explore more.
The N95 would have been great in a world without iPhone. It was peak Nokia indeed. But the iPhone’s announcement made it look like ancient technology, stuck in the past. Using the iPhone multitouch screen, incredible UI and butter-smooth animations was like jumping 10 years into the future. It was a WOW moment that just made every other phone look ridiculous.
@ that’s besides the point. We know the iPhone had lower specs for several features, including camera resolutions, unable to record videos, not even 3G. But it was still the most gigantic leap in UI experience. A whole new world
When I saw the video cover, I thought you were going to show the program I'm working on for the Nokia N95. It's a modeling, animation, and rendering program based on Blender for Nokia. To this day, the most impressive thing I've seen is Quake 3 Arena running on the N95 with a Bluetooth mouse and TV output
I had completely forgotten about SKY-FORCE. I used tom play it on my brother's Nokia 6600, before getting a N72 of my own. Watching your video brought back so many memories of my childhood. Those were some good times.
Let's talk about price: N95 was a very expensive top notch phone so pursuing other touch screen projects was not a problem for Nokia it looks more like sabotage. And future N95, N97 had even touch buttons and touch screen
Woah, this brought back so many memories! When I moved out from my parents house in 2008 to another city 300 kilometers away, I actually used my N95 as navigation system in the car. The first night I spent in my new flat, I actually watched "No Country for Old Men" on my N95, as I didn't have a TV back then. It was such a great phone and I still have all the photos and videos I made with it back in the day.
Your videos are very informative in terms of covering these legacy devices in depth like describing their operating systems, apps, behaviours etc.. You even highlighted things like signing certificate, which took me back to the memory lane when I used to do these myself :) I have backups intact and I still hold many of the Symbian/Maemo apps, cracks etc... Your videos are treasure for the future generations 😍
Yes. I don't understand what Nokia executives were thinking. They had pure gold in their hands with the Maemo/Meego and Intel. It would have beaten iOS and Android 100-0. But they decided te sell out to Microsoft and start making Lumia phones which forced even Finnish fanboys to other manufacturers. I never even wanted to try one.
@oskar6747 Windows Phone wasn't bad and the Lumia phones kept the same features, like superior offline navigation and most other symbian apps and the tiles were nice. And it had support for large MicroSD cards. Most android phones at the same price range topped out at 32GB. I had the Lumia 720 and later 830. Both ran without lags, stutters and had 128GB MicroSD cards worth of music. The biggest problem i had with these phones was the lack of games and the web browser was rubbish. Same with the video player, which didn't even support mkv containers with multiple languages, while android phones had third party media players capable of all sorts of codecs, which is important to me as a bi-national person. The camera app was sick tho. Still better than most quadruple "Pro AI Premium" cameras. It had all the settings you want in a digital camera.
@@hyperturbotechnomike I can't say for sure because I never tried one, but I'd guess that camera app, maps and other things that worked were made by Nokia. I think the biggest turnoff for me was Internet Explorer. I would have been so embarrassed to take out a phone in public with a big IE logo. Symbian was never going to be good for a modern touchscreen smartphone. Those xpress music phones were awful, but probably still had a better browser with Opera.
The firm I was working for at the time supplied me with this phone, and a “Nokia pen” that worked with special encrypted paper that would allow me to send hand written surveys to insurance companies using the phones signal and Bluetooth instantly to the head offices email box. It was so advanced at the time and the phone’s camera was really impressive. Cool video 🤩☺️✌️
I had one of these when I was serving in Finnish Defense forces. Couldn't have asked for better phone. Durable, long battery life, good communications even in the forest in middle of nowhere. I had it on my 24/7 no matter the weather or exercise.
This was my most favorite and memorable phone. Someone ended up buying me a Nokia N97 phone at some point as a gift when I had this one and I felt bad that I couldn't switch because it felt like a downgrade. I used the GPS of the phone to find the office building of a job I ended up getting driving from Abu Dhabi to Sharjah. The entire phone was a joy to use.
Unfortunately, Nokia did cave to mobile carriers' demands to remove or disable WiFi in certain phones. I had the E62 for a while. It was the North American version of the E61 (exclusive to Cingular and Rogers.) It was GSM/GPRS/EDGE-only, without the rest-of-world 3G capabilities of the E61, and it lacked the E61's WiFi radio. The Rogers supplied version even excluded the USB data cable normally included with the E61. I probably would have kept the E62 as my daily smartphone for longer than I did, but the lack of WiFi and the extortionate data rates in Canada at the time meant that I leapt to the iPhone 3G and what seemed like a stunningly cheap $90/6GB monthly plan when it was introduced.
Networks had too much power over phone manufacturers at the time. Because of their business model of giving phones away for 'free' on expensive two year phone contracts. They really screwed us.
I also had an E62 for a while after I lost my imported E61. The lack of WiFi wasn't really a huge problem for me as Cingular had a reasonably priced unlimited data addon by then. However, they both paled in comparison with the E71, which thankfully did have a version with 850/1900/2100 3G in addition to the quad band 2G radio. The E71 really was far and away the best Blackberry form factor phone ever released. The keyboard was an utter delight to type on and it was built like a brick s**thouse. A friend of mine ran over his with his car and then used it to call me and complain about it. The screen was turned to mush and the frame was full of gouges, but it was still perfectly usable for phone calls and even messaging with the screen reader stuff turned on.
It can also play N-GAGE, GBA, J2ME and SYMBIAN apps/games. And supported app store before iOS. It was smartest feature phone and multimedia powerhouse of its time. Also really underrated device in retro gaming community.
Thanks for another great video! I've owned a Nokia E51 personally. A masterpiece, still good to remember it after... 16 years already. Would like to see one in your video.
As far as Symbian based Nokia phones, I've had: Nokia 3650 (with it's weird circular keyboard layout - get that one for review), 6630 (the successor of 3650 design, and first Symbian Nokia to have 16 bit 44kHz audio native), Nokia 6680 (The first with selfie and video calling front camera), then, N95 (wow was the phone great! I've laughed to the Iphone, with it's abysmal 2G EDGE connectivity - I was using 3G phones for years before Iphone got announced, and now had 3.5G (HSDPA) phone while iPhone had 2G only, lack of video recording - we had VGA 30fps, no GPS - hahaha, and no real apps (first two versions of the iPhone OS supported only so called "web apps", while on Symbian we had real apps!)), and finally I had Nokia N82 (the first Symbian Nokia with Xenon flash, I had xenon flash in my phone!). Then I moved to the "dark side" - Android - HTC Desire, and was blown away by Amoled screens, but disappointed with abysmal camera quality).
Ah, the N95! I had the 8 GB version, and it was a BEAST. Feature-wise it was FAR ahead of the first iPhones, but both hardware and software were clumsy as hell. The app compatibility issues were made even worse by the carriers. Without a central app store, they had absolute control over what got on their customer's phones. I vividly remember wanting some Gameloft games that WERE available for the N95, but not on MY carrier. The solution? I learned how to hack the phone, of course. 😅 When I switched to Android (a Motorola CLIQ) a few years later, I was shocked at how many features I took for granted on the N95 were missing. Especially games and advanced camera features. I was playing God of War, Asphalt 2, Skyforce, and taking panoramic photos on my N95 way before Android users were able to do the same.
I had one for work. It had a built in sip / VoIP client. It was setup with my direct dial phone number back in the office. Such a tactile phone - the build felt so nice in the hand and the slide was addictive 😁
I had N95's from launch, to unsupported. I even got a very early version of WhatsApp!! Unfortunately, it didn't work for long. Then, the phone was loosing just about every capability sadly, including the web browser. Great video. Still got mine, just for nostalgia. And it still works 👍
On this device you can easily play games like Doom or Duke Nukem 3D or all kinds of emulators. There was also an app for assigning the multimedia keys, so that you could control the games perfectly even in landscape format! The camera was way ahead of its time... I sold the device on eBay almost 10 years later for still over €350.
Try Nokia Xpress Music 5730, a slide media focused phone that runs Symbian S60 V.3 if i'm not mistaken. As the Xpress Music was a booming and ahead of it's era, worth to reviewing it. If you decided to review this phone, please pin my comment. I guarantee that you would like that phone.
9:23 this game was just amazing for its time. The graphics was unique, going from squares to hexagon levels were really a challenge back when I was a kid. I used to play this game in my aunt’s phone but I don’t remember the Nokia model. It was similar to the n95 except the dpad had this joystick instead of buttons
I had the black N95, it was awesome and one of the reasons I could not get that excited about iPhone. Nokia had other pretty cool N-series devices too. N90 that came before N95 had so high resolution, that the display was almost retina level at 259 ppi. Let that sink in. It was 2005, retina debuted with iPhone 4 in 2010. It took a long time before I saw another display that crips. The later released N95 nor iPhone came even close.
Owned this phone back in 2008 to 2010. Had a very bad OS in the beginning. Laggy, slow and unstable. Late 2008 Nokia released an update which really improved the software quality. The functionality was a big plus at the time but tbh it was also a brick in your pocket. Unfortunately, the double slide functionality wasn’t very practical when walking around having the phone in your pocket. It was always sliding and activating functions. I later replaced it with be Nokia C7 and loved its flat design.
I had the n95 8gb black version in 2008. It was ahead of time. Tv connection with car race, speed processor compared to n72 and premium stylish look were like head turners even iphone 1 didn't have that recognition
Probably one of my favourite Nokia's in my collection. Mine is also plagued by the Telstra software. Unfortunately, it also has a faulty display. Still works just a bit funky. Another great video!
Lament Island actually did make use of Microphone and Phone's Camera for gameplay, such as blow into microphone for smth or point Camera, its was one of the games which used most of phones hardware
.sisx games were cool, but N-Gage 2.0 had all the kids in my class going nuts. I will never not miss the media buttons, they need to make a comeback. I had the 8GB model which was a humongous amount of storage back then
HMD Global could take the design of let's say the Nokia 5310, the red and black color scheme, the media buttons, the rhythmic lights that changes with music and make a touchscreen modern "Nokia" but they only do feature phones nobody want.
My mom wasn't a techy person. When she brought home a brand spanking new N95 as her phone i was really surprised. I had only read about it in tech-oriented publications. After a while i became extremely interested in the N82, as it was one of the only phones with a "real" xenon flash. And was small and portable enough to be pocketable. Never got the chance to get one, but i still think it looks great.
I had a Nokia 5320 which ran on a later S60v3 edition and had a 369MHz CPU as well as 128MB of RAM. Jailbroke it using HelloOX and installed a lot of games and emulators on it, and also Opera Mini. It wasn't as fancy as the N95 but it did the job well for me.
I still have one in my cupboard. It had a unique feature that a thing could be done by more than one ways, for example you could utilise dedicated media buttons or you could also do it by pressing menu key. It had a removable battery, stereo speakers and a wonderful tv-out system. I watched my home movies and pics on tv with it. I also utilised this feature for calling and replying on phone while hearing the other person on tv. I really Ioved this tv-out feature that I miss in modern phones.
It really is 12:24 baffling to hear all that lamenting about the 13 navigation buttons and how that was a bad design decision and let to downfall. When in fact that was THE innovation. You could get around the operation system and more importantly the browser with ease without having the actual touchscreen!!! That was the innovation from 6600 model onwards.
Love your content! One of my first colour screen phones was the Nokia 6610. It didn’t have a camera but I actually had a Nokia branded plug in camera. I believe the 6610i had an integrated camera. It also had a version of bounce which was such a great game. Would love to see it in one of your awesome videos.
There are a number of versions of Bounce. I think I even tried on in my Sony Ericsson video. And there will be more Nokia phones to try them on in the future.
It really infuriates me that at their end of life support, they don't just open source all the code, schematics, etc. If they don't want to maintain the devices anymore, let us.
I understand that companies might have some commercial secrets they wish to protect. But otherwise I completely agree. To all companies: Be proud of your legacy and recognize the culture your products have created by releasing this sort of information when you abandon your support.
I'm somewhat sure that back in the days of the N95 and the first iPhones, the only chipsets that were there would be from Texas Instruments, Broadcom, and Qualcomm, and so on... MediaTek and Exynos weren't there back in early 2010s yet.
@@jamesbrendan5170 At that time, there was also a Nomadik chip by ST-Ericsson, XScale by Intel (before they sold this division to Marvell), Nexperia and Freescale chips by now-NXP. Samsung actually made the CPUs even before the Exynos branding. They were in the iPhones up to 3GS.
I was hoping on a nokia video, i even wrote a comment on one of the previous videos saying this. You delivered with quality, once again. Great work. Loved the video. Keep it up ! Should we move on to early android phones with amazing custom kernels with gpu and cpu overclocking and the "fast charge" tweaks that make your battery bloat like a baloon in a few charges ? xD Good old rom flashing days
I remember having this phone. Amazing device. There was some racing game on it that took hours of my time during the day. I hope I can buy one again now after seeing this video.
Great video , in the UK the networks put annoying branding on these phones but it was possible to debrand these phones by downloading the default Nokia firmware from the Nokia servers and flashing the default firmware to the phone which improved them considerably, a SIM interposer gave the network unlock. The best feature imo was the ngage platform could be added and a range of games including a 3d fishing game called creatures of the deep which was superb and still Playable to this day.
This was my dream phone back in high school but I did manage to get a N73 and install the music edition firmware on it. I still love Symbian after all these years, for me it was mind blowing.
I missed out on this one but I did have the N900. It fulfilled my dreams of a tiny micro computer. And it also had that dope-ass analog video out that the N95 did.
That was the phone of my dreams, not the stupid Lumias they started making with Microsoft. I still think back about it and what the world would look like if it hadn't been abandoned. It's so sad. I think it was hundred times better than Android at the time. I still follow Jolla and hope they will get somewhere.
There was a weird thing going on with the n900, my friend sent one to Nokia because of a security risk that needed to be patched and he didn't get the n900 back. Apparently this happened to several people.
Hello. What a great video! Thank you so much for your post! Now I want one! Two things you did not cover that I hope you will address in a future video. 1) Is someone making new batteries for this phone that you can buy? Or do you have to find a old dead battery, take the battery case apart and built up a battery pack for this phone? 2) Can you make and receive phone calls on this phone any more? Any hacks to let that happen? I love older technology and this takes me back in time. I am 74 years old. And while I have used Nokia phones long ago, never this one. What a lovely phone it is! Many thanks.
Replacement batteries are still available, look for Nokia BL-5F and BL-6F batteries. This phone still makes calls fine in areas with 3G service. Here in Australia 3G service is being turned off this year, so I'm pleased I was able to use this phone before that happened.
@@JanusCycle Thank you so much for that addition information. This phone has a SD slot for extra memory, correct? Have you ever found a service manual for this phone? Someone should pdf a service manual for it and post it to a web site so we can all download it. Is a owners manual available on line? I love all the hacks available to keep this phone alive. I guess I can make phone calls via hooking the phone up to my WiFi at my home. I am in the US. I need to see if G3 is still offered here. What a great video!!! Thank you again.
Sorry, one more question - No G3 here in the USA. Can I hook this phone up to my home WiFi and send and receive text messages? How about phone calls? I am thinking no, but I thought I would ask.... What a lovely phone!!!
@@TheAuriconGroup No calls or messages possible over N95 WiFi unfortunately. The silver fronted models have a Micro SD slot. The black fronted models have 8GB build in and no card slot.
@@JanusCycle Hello Janus.... OK, thank you. Now that I think about it, as G3 is dead, no way text messages or calls over WiFi would work. I had a brain fart - Sorry. I will look for a silver model. How large of a mico SD card can the silver model take? Of the two batteries you suggested ( BL-5F and BL-6F batteries) which one is larger? - or are either one just as good? I love this phone!
The times when they could produce and offer new and exciting things....they deliberately shut it down because a new era of surveillance had to be implemented!
My biggest complain with the N95 8GB, back in the day, was that it probably had the slowest flash memory I have ever seen in my life, period. Also, it lacked FP2, the system was kinda sluggish compared to other FP2 devices, like the 6120 Classic, which is as snappy as it gets.
Nokia N73, flashed the rom with a multimedia edition, installed unicode fonts supporting my alphabet, and was working perfectly for 4 years, just usual signs of ware , switched to Galaxy Note in 2012
Not sure why but somehow symbian always rubbed me the wrong way - never found it particularly interesting, maybe at that point I was just spoiled by palm and everything it could do. The real monster that nokia created at that time was the N900 - that thing had anything and everything, friend had one and was doing half of IT admin work right from it.
I must say I don't regret staying with Sony Ericsson at the time. Possibly because I also had Palm and then an iPod touch. But everything was changing so quickly.
@@JanusCycle heh, changing it was, but by that time I had a feeling of 'I seen it all' and just kinda stopped being interested in the shiniest new toys - to the point that I got my first smartphone very late, loved the size and feel of Samsung U900, but it just got flash corruption at that point, it was time to let go... Smartphones these days? Don't get me started.
@@JanusCycle and can you cover the "not enough power in order to charge the device" issue when Nokia N9 is connected to a pc ? When I connect my Nokia N9 to a PC and when I choose the Mass storage option, it says Mass storage in use and 2 seconds later it says "Not enough power in order to charge the device" and my pc says USB device is not recognised. That wasn't happening before. Before it will connect normally to my PC when I choose Mass storage option
In 2008 2 of my friends had n95 few others had Windows mobile(PPC )phones then when iPhone got released one of them got it realised there is no extended memory and there was some kind of block on transfer files with other devices via Bluetooth he returned it.
I had the N95 8GB and I was so proud of it. It felt like an extension of the design of the 8800 but with smartphone capability. I remember being amazed by the smoothness of Nokia maps, an app that Nokia would try to show off in its competition with the iPhone. Sadly when it came to the phone's successor they made the N96 which felt like it had been made with Lego so I ended up looking at the new Xperia range, the X1 (windows mobile) and the X10 (android). I would have bought a Nokia but by the time they made the leap to touchscreen phones they ended up landing on the Windows phone I had given up on them entirely. I miss their wow factor and how excited I was when I got the N95 8GB
I had this phone in the past years, in the year nokia N-series is release in the Market, a lot of times using my N95 phone, but the problem is the slider of the phone it is damage and I coudn't fix it, and I search for a nokia service center in my country but I do not find one, after the slider is damage next is the ips screen, suddenly it stop working, I still have my N95 phone, I keept it hope to fix it in the future, best phone I ever had in the good old days, thanks Nokia and for this channel reviewing N-95 Phone
Hey thanks for the shout-out! Been really enjoying your videos over the past year or so. Please keep it up! 🍻
Thank you Michael. Hearing this means more than you might realize, coming from someone who's work I greatly admire. I love your narrative style and honesty. Your support is extremely encouraging.
Hello there Mr Mobile
you should have tried loading gba roms and psx emulation on this device @@JanusCycle
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Come to Jesus Christ today
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Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void
Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today
Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today
John 3:16-21
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Mark 1.15
15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
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Hebrews 11:6
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
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@@JanusCycle 2 of my favourite tech youtubers! Lets goo
The N-Series was basically a true multimedia monster. Playing games on this phone with the N-Gage 2.0 is truly an eye opener for a mobile game
Speaking of which; I loved my N-Gage QD at the time. It fixed all the design problems of the first hardware version. I got mine for 50 USD with an MMC card that I used to pirate a bunch of the N-gage games. This was before the PSP so being able to play THPS and Tomb Raider on the train was really impressive.
I remember playing One on my hacked Nokia 5700, where I have installed the N-Gage 2.0 launcher, and being blown away by the mobile graphics.
The Symbian OS was amazing for it's time. People pretend like smarthphone's only came out with the Iphone/Android yet they were already there almost 10 years before that.
yeah i still remember playing metal gear solid and assassins creed on my 6120classic with hacked ngage 2.0 launcher
@@mesicek7 I think that a big part of that is a North American bias, where the Symbian smartphones were not as popular as in Europe and Asia, and the Rim Blackberries were the predominant smartphones. Other than that there is also a sense of smartphones meaning multitouch devices and the Iphone being a start of a new era.
The Stephen Elop thing was an obvious episode of a corporate Trojan horse. He moved to Nokia from Microsoft and made the baffling and hugely risky decision to make them go all-in with Windows Mobile instead of going with Android or even developing Maemo/Meego further. When it inevitably failed, he sold Nokia to Microsoft for almost nothing, and took a job back with Microsoft again. It should have been illegal. And Nokia’s board should have seen it coming.
Nokia today should be one of the “big three” with Samsung and Apple. It should be leading Europe’s tech sector. Stephen Elop made sure it wasn’t.
Microsoft's "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" in practical form
Nokia's board and shareholders approving and making those decisions. Ofc they didn't see it coming, because nothing was coming in first place, they all been there in place.
WIndows Mobile was the good one people used, Windows Phone was the one that broke all backwards compatibility, had no apps, and no userbase
@@xmlthegreat wheres the "embrace, extend" part?
@@kreuner11that part was made popular when Microsoft was trying to develop Java then tried to make proprietary extensions to make sure their version of Java is the only version developers would prefer, hence the Embrace and Extend part. Maybe they forgot to include this during Elop's time.
The N95 is probably the best ever phone made by Nokia. I remember my mom had one. How it has WLAN not only maked it good for 2007 standards, but also how this phone has a 5MP camera.
Nah, that would be the n900.
@@VEC7ORlt n900 had whole new viewpoint to the mobile phones. I aggree with both of you.
@@VEC7ORlt as someone who has been dailying a N900 since May 2011, I agree with this sentiment.
@@Wasmachinemanit's a shame they're shutting down 3G, end of an era.
the 5700 xpress music is also a contender.
Thanks for the great video! This was truly one of the most legendary smart devices ever made.
I wanted one but I never was able to get the N95, years later I did get the N79, then the N97 mini, then the N8... And at one point I was daily-driving them all at once while everyone around was getting on the iPhone and Android train. I eventually used the Norton hack on all of them.
The N97 mini is gone now sadly, but the N79 and N8 are still kicking.
Keep up the great work!
Thanks so much! I'm glad you enjoyed this. You reminded me that there was also a mini version of the N97. That was kinda unusual for the time to have that option.
Dude you rule! Giving do much to the channel
Opera Mini was the best mobile browser back in those days. My first digital pictures and videos was taken in a Nokia N95.
Opera Mini was lit!
@@karama300video not was it still exists
a couple of months ago, i brought my N95-1 to a school trip
everyone was like ''how old is that??'' ''can it play snake?''...
i took a lot of photos with it, and it shows how good the camera is, even today
also i have a nokia phone collection, with 23 different models
Omg. 23 models!
I didn't have the legendary N95 but I had a N80 (not to be confused with the more recent N8) that my uncle gave me after seeing I was so amazed with it. It was an amazing phone and even though the battery was probably defective and not lasting very long, I loved every moment I had with that phone. Do you have a N80 in your collection? How do you like it?
@@StingnB unfortunately i don't have an N80 :(
it is quite similar to my N70 tho, which i really like (but my unit isn't in great condition unfortunately)
it's basically the predecessor to the n95 btw
also, it seems like that, for whatever reason, they are quite rare here in Italy, and i mainly get phones from flea markets and thrift shops, often for really cheap: i once got a Lumia 630 for 2 Euros!
I have N90
Wow. Congrats man🎉
@@rodelespanol8834 recently got one and it's a really nice S60v2 device
Two things I can think of worth mentioning.
1. You could multitask and switch between/close apps by holding the left menu key (from memory).
2. Nokia had an experimental app that was actually a self hosted social page that ran on the phone. From memory it ran as a web server. Was AGES ago but might be worth trying to dig up as would probably make an interesting video.
Two really interesting details that I didn't know, thanks!
As somebody who's been trying to run Mastodon straight from my smartphone, this is certainly an interesting historical goalpost
DA N95 WAS DA GOAT!
I too remember a social feature like that. Did it not ping you if another user was nearby? Nintendo products of the day would do something similar
that was the Lifeblog app. It was an ambitious social media and a privacy nightmare since it can share almost anything you do on your phone. But hey, 2007, no one really bats an eye on privacy.
I've been looking at old Nokia Nseries stuff for the past week and here you are dropping this. I wanted N95 so much as a kid. You're one of my favorite retro ytubers. Thank you for sharing!
Awesome, we were exploring Nokia N series at the same time.
I have an N95 8GB for sale.
I was a kid and i remember that the head designer of the N Series was an Argentine called Axel Meyer. In an interview he said that under his team he had many professionals in many areas. If i remember correctly, he said that the idea of using an LED in a previous phone as a lantern came from an English anthropologist in his team. That wasn't common like it's today. Just a fun fact.
Yeah iPhones didn't get a built in flashlight button till IOS6 iirc
@@JessicaFEREMdid early phone LEDs have a risk of dying early from that i wonder? i don’t remember hearing anything about that but i was a kid at the time
@@davidbowman2001nope, white LEDs were already mature enough by then. The Nokia 1100 even had one.
It didn’t get particularly hot like on modern phones so they probably didn’t drive it that hard. It definitely drained the battery though!
It used a Xenon flash
Nokia and their design team was ahead of its time.
And the leadership was stuck in brick phone era.
How so? They released the N95 the same year as the iPhone (that future of the phone market), when switching to touch screen they went with the dated resistive touch technology and decided to stick with Symbian OS for so long it nearly killed the company. When switching OS they weren't even in tune with the market enough to pick Android but instead tried to push a useless Windows phone OS. After making the N95, arguably the best phone of the old world, they literally made every wrong decision they could possibly make.
@@ErikSWEyeah they persisted for too long with Symbian, and in a snap android wiped them away, at least in europe. Had Nokia N95 8GB, 200€ with contract, thought there wouldn’t be any phone more expensive and capable 😀 Few years later switched to first touch, HTC Wildfire, sadly (almoast) never looked back to Nokia, still in the early years I was hoping that they’ll switch to Android to catch the train, but when they did it was too late.
I worked on the graphics acceleration for this phone, and that glitzy 3D menu when you slide out the media keys. This phone was a beast, with amazing graphics power for the time; I wish the Nokia engineers could have had free rein to push what it could do.
A nice trip down the memory lane. That Snakes game is amazing even today. I had an N95 briefly at the time, while replacing the phone body for a boss, well, only bosses could afford it back then. I had an N73, and Symbian became usable by everyone only with 6120 Classic, which was fast and small enough to win the hearts of IT people, who had preferred S40 before.
I was 20, worked at the Nokia factory assembling these N95's and I could afford one.
@@oskar6747 i remember its cost so much :D but some providers like Vodafone,Orange, T-Mobile in my country make offer if you make 2year contract you can get one for 1euro :D i had all N-Nokias and i love them
@@oskar6747 Where was that, in Finland? I worked in a Foxconn factory in 2008 in Hungary, making lower end phones for Nokia (I remember one particular mp3 player phone being extremely popular at that time). And we made about $225/month (80000 Hungarian Forint). Also I think that was with overtime, but I can't remember that for 100% now. 12 hour long shifts: one daytime shift, then one night time shift, then two days off, and start again. I was there for two months, and if I had to stay any longer I would have gone postal, and set the place on fire, or do something bad. I have absolutely no idea how people can do these kind of jobs without going insane. Also it needless to say none of us had an N95 lol.
@@kosztaz87 It was in Salo. I wasn't a regular hired by Nokia but I worked there for little over a year maybe two at most. All the regulars looked like they hated their lives and were the lowest producing workers there, but on our side we were mostly young and had quite a good atmosphere. The pay was ok. I can't remember the numbers anymore, but maybe 2-3k Eur/month without overtime. Some worked in four shifts and some in five. I think the other had same shift for two or three days and the other for a week. 8h long shifts.
Yaaa I remember the patching what a pain that was
This phone was able to make video calls even that long ago. Where as the first iphone didn't even have a front camera. It was indeed a game changing feature at that time.
Yeah, I faintly remember this now that u mentioned it. I think we used to make skype calls over it. Probbaly the first phones to be able to do this.
Video calls had been a feature on 3G phones for about 5 years by that point. I recall a news item about the actual first video-calling phone in 2001, or maybe it was 2002.
Hardly anyone used it, though, because of the large costs to do a video call over 3G. People preferred to use Skype over wifi on a laptop or PDA, or on the few phones with wifi like this.
Even when Apple introduced FaceTime many years later, most people still just used them on wifi for a long time. It wasn’t until mobile carriers stopped charging extra for it, and treated it the same as any other mobile data, that people started to video call on 4G more.
I have an N95 8GB, and I must say its design still screams flagship even after all these years.
I would really like one for it's blackness.
@@JanusCycle I personally like the silver version more. Btw, you can easily debrand your nokia n95 with phoenix (I preder it) or JAF in just a few minutes if you have a windows 7 laptop.
@@JanusCyclealiexpress and eBay have n95 phones for sale.
@@ophtalmology have you ever used this software to flash Nokia phones? It still work today? I have some needing sw reflash, one turns on but bootloop. The only time i reflashed Nokia phones was back when the original Nokia tools and servers were working.
@@IsmaelWensder yes, I reflashed my Nokia E66 less than a month ago. The biggest challenge was to find the right firmware because most of the websites hosting it were down, and the programming software can be easily found. Official Nokia software isn’t working, but that is not the problem, Phoenix and JAF will do the job just fine. If you find the necessary firmware you can reinstall it anytime even without connection to the internet.
I had one of these for years, even didn’t buy the first gen iPhone because it didn’t do half the things I could do on my N95, especially once you started installing third party software on it. You could even make wifi hotspots with it and tether your laptop over it using third party software.
Pictures I took on that phone still hold up today.
yeah, i think later nokia phone came bundle with that (still 3rd party app)
but iirc tethering over USB was standard on nokia with symbian but iirc you need a Nokia PC suite for the driver
@@Banom7a Bundle may have been region specific cos I wasnt aware of it.
If I remember correctly, the wifi tethering software I was using was Joikuspot for the wifi hotspot, The email client was “Profimail” by Lonely Cat Games, which i still remember for absolutely no reason at all and was better than the built in client.
One funny story I remember was, Tomtom made a version of their satnav for nokia S60 but intended you to use it with an external bluetooth GPS. The N95 had built in GPS but it wouldn’t use it, however, one of the software pirate groups back in the day who cracked this software also posted it with some kind of background program to run which would connect the internal GPS to tomtom, and thus the pirate version was better than the official one, so naturally that’s what I was using.
but it could not remember wifi passwords...
@@77garga I don’t remember ever having that issue with mine
What a great video, thank you! IIRC, the N95 was tagged the first phone to be praised by journalists/reporters as they used to gather video news.
Did the N95 also include a FM transmitter with RDS to listen to your MP3 files on the car stereo?
I don't think the N95 has an FM transmitter. But hidden FM TX in phones is a thing and I might have a few brands/models that I can activate this function on. It's a topic I want to explore more.
I had one at the time, and no it didn't. My next phone was an N86, and that one did.
The quality of that Composite Video Out from that phone is surprisingly good!
The N95 would have been great in a world without iPhone. It was peak Nokia indeed. But the iPhone’s announcement made it look like ancient technology, stuck in the past. Using the iPhone multitouch screen, incredible UI and butter-smooth animations was like jumping 10 years into the future. It was a WOW moment that just made every other phone look ridiculous.
Except for the iphones camera- that was terrible compared to what Nokia could do
@ that’s besides the point. We know the iPhone had lower specs for several features, including camera resolutions, unable to record videos, not even 3G. But it was still the most gigantic leap in UI experience. A whole new world
When I saw the video cover, I thought you were going to show the program I'm working on for the Nokia N95. It's a modeling, animation, and rendering program based on Blender for Nokia. To this day, the most impressive thing I've seen is Quake 3 Arena running on the N95 with a Bluetooth mouse and TV output
haha, yes, i remember that video. Time to take ibuprofen...
This is my own credo as an end user: keep the code base minimal. The AV being the entry point is a classic still valid today.
I had completely forgotten about SKY-FORCE. I used tom play it on my brother's Nokia 6600, before getting a N72 of my own.
Watching your video brought back so many memories of my childhood. Those were some good times.
I really glad you enjoyed seeing this game and remembering again :)
I love how continue in full screen just removes the title bar and menu and doesnt change the size of the video due to the aspect ratio ;)
I sometimes feel like Janus is making magnificent commercials for stuff they don't sell anymore.
Let's talk about price: N95 was a very expensive top notch phone so pursuing other touch screen projects was not a problem for Nokia it looks more like sabotage. And future N95, N97 had even touch buttons and touch screen
I loved my N95 . It was love at first sight . I bought it day one , used it for over 3 years . I still have it after all those years .
That black cat is beautiful :)
My version of N95 is not in the best shape, but works fine, has a generic firmware, and its battery is still working.
Woah, this brought back so many memories! When I moved out from my parents house in 2008 to another city 300 kilometers away, I actually used my N95 as navigation system in the car. The first night I spent in my new flat, I actually watched "No Country for Old Men" on my N95, as I didn't have a TV back then. It was such a great phone and I still have all the photos and videos I made with it back in the day.
Such a good video! Very well done. Like time travel! Keep making these 👍🏼
Was it really 17 years? A whole lifetime!
Your videos are very informative in terms of covering these legacy devices in depth like describing their operating systems, apps, behaviours etc.. You even highlighted things like signing certificate, which took me back to the memory lane when I used to do these myself :)
I have backups intact and I still hold many of the Symbian/Maemo apps, cracks etc...
Your videos are treasure for the future generations 😍
I really appreciate hearing this, thank you.
Elop was a Microsoft executive right?
He was a trojan horse for Nokia, basically
It's called a hostile take over, After Elopsen was done butchering Nokia he went back to Microsoft right after.
Yes. I don't understand what Nokia executives were thinking. They had pure gold in their hands with the Maemo/Meego and Intel. It would have beaten iOS and Android 100-0. But they decided te sell out to Microsoft and start making Lumia phones which forced even Finnish fanboys to other manufacturers. I never even wanted to try one.
@oskar6747
Windows Phone wasn't bad and the Lumia phones kept the same features, like superior offline navigation and most other symbian apps and the tiles were nice. And it had support for large MicroSD cards. Most android phones at the same price range topped out at 32GB. I had the Lumia 720 and later 830. Both ran without lags, stutters and had 128GB MicroSD cards worth of music.
The biggest problem i had with these phones was the lack of games and the web browser was rubbish. Same with the video player, which didn't even support mkv containers with multiple languages, while android phones had third party media players capable of all sorts of codecs, which is important to me as a bi-national person.
The camera app was sick tho. Still better than most quadruple "Pro AI Premium" cameras. It had all the settings you want in a digital camera.
@@hyperturbotechnomike I can't say for sure because I never tried one, but I'd guess that camera app, maps and other things that worked were made by Nokia. I think the biggest turnoff for me was Internet Explorer. I would have been so embarrassed to take out a phone in public with a big IE logo.
Symbian was never going to be good for a modern touchscreen smartphone. Those xpress music phones were awful, but probably still had a better browser with Opera.
The firm I was working for at the time supplied me with this phone, and a “Nokia pen” that worked with special encrypted paper that would allow me to send hand written surveys to insurance companies using the phones signal and Bluetooth instantly to the head offices email box.
It was so advanced at the time and the phone’s camera was really impressive.
Cool video 🤩☺️✌️
I had one of these when I was serving in Finnish Defense forces. Couldn't have asked for better phone. Durable, long battery life, good communications even in the forest in middle of nowhere. I had it on my 24/7 no matter the weather or exercise.
i remember my phone was the only one in the office with a strong signal after storm hit our city
This was my most favorite and memorable phone. Someone ended up buying me a Nokia N97 phone at some point as a gift when I had this one and I felt bad that I couldn't switch because it felt like a downgrade. I used the GPS of the phone to find the office building of a job I ended up getting driving from Abu Dhabi to Sharjah. The entire phone was a joy to use.
feeling nostalgia for opera mini
I was hoping he'd try it on there.
@@samuelllakaj5439 surely it won't work now, it uses servers to compress webpages, which are most probably down by now
Unfortunately, Nokia did cave to mobile carriers' demands to remove or disable WiFi in certain phones. I had the E62 for a while. It was the North American version of the E61 (exclusive to Cingular and Rogers.) It was GSM/GPRS/EDGE-only, without the rest-of-world 3G capabilities of the E61, and it lacked the E61's WiFi radio. The Rogers supplied version even excluded the USB data cable normally included with the E61. I probably would have kept the E62 as my daily smartphone for longer than I did, but the lack of WiFi and the extortionate data rates in Canada at the time meant that I leapt to the iPhone 3G and what seemed like a stunningly cheap $90/6GB monthly plan when it was introduced.
Networks had too much power over phone manufacturers at the time. Because of their business model of giving phones away for 'free' on expensive two year phone contracts. They really screwed us.
I also had an E62 for a while after I lost my imported E61. The lack of WiFi wasn't really a huge problem for me as Cingular had a reasonably priced unlimited data addon by then. However, they both paled in comparison with the E71, which thankfully did have a version with 850/1900/2100 3G in addition to the quad band 2G radio.
The E71 really was far and away the best Blackberry form factor phone ever released. The keyboard was an utter delight to type on and it was built like a brick s**thouse. A friend of mine ran over his with his car and then used it to call me and complain about it. The screen was turned to mush and the frame was full of gouges, but it was still perfectly usable for phone calls and even messaging with the screen reader stuff turned on.
@@JanusCycle glad they look for creative designers ❤
I always wondered why so many Nokia phones didn't had wifi, even when they needed it.
@@JanusCycle Networks were the customers, not us.
It can also play N-GAGE, GBA, J2ME and SYMBIAN apps/games. And supported app store before iOS. It was smartest feature phone and multimedia powerhouse of its time. Also really underrated device in retro gaming community.
Thanks for another great video! I've owned a Nokia E51 personally. A masterpiece, still good to remember it after... 16 years already. Would like to see one in your video.
As far as Symbian based Nokia phones, I've had: Nokia 3650 (with it's weird circular keyboard layout - get that one for review), 6630 (the successor of 3650 design, and first Symbian Nokia to have 16 bit 44kHz audio native), Nokia 6680 (The first with selfie and video calling front camera), then, N95 (wow was the phone great! I've laughed to the Iphone, with it's abysmal 2G EDGE connectivity - I was using 3G phones for years before Iphone got announced, and now had 3.5G (HSDPA) phone while iPhone had 2G only, lack of video recording - we had VGA 30fps, no GPS - hahaha, and no real apps (first two versions of the iPhone OS supported only so called "web apps", while on Symbian we had real apps!)), and finally I had Nokia N82 (the first Symbian Nokia with Xenon flash, I had xenon flash in my phone!). Then I moved to the "dark side" - Android - HTC Desire, and was blown away by Amoled screens, but disappointed with abysmal camera quality).
Amazing content mate
thanks!
Ah, the N95! I had the 8 GB version, and it was a BEAST. Feature-wise it was FAR ahead of the first iPhones, but both hardware and software were clumsy as hell.
The app compatibility issues were made even worse by the carriers. Without a central app store, they had absolute control over what got on their customer's phones. I vividly remember wanting some Gameloft games that WERE available for the N95, but not on MY carrier. The solution? I learned how to hack the phone, of course. 😅
When I switched to Android (a Motorola CLIQ) a few years later, I was shocked at how many features I took for granted on the N95 were missing. Especially games and advanced camera features. I was playing God of War, Asphalt 2, Skyforce, and taking panoramic photos on my N95 way before Android users were able to do the same.
I had one for work. It had a built in sip / VoIP client. It was setup with my direct dial phone number back in the office. Such a tactile phone - the build felt so nice in the hand and the slide was addictive 😁
I had N95's from launch, to unsupported. I even got a very early version of WhatsApp!! Unfortunately, it didn't work for long. Then, the phone was loosing just about every capability
sadly, including the web browser. Great video. Still got mine, just for nostalgia. And it still works 👍
On this device you can easily play games like Doom or Duke Nukem 3D or all kinds of emulators. There was also an app for assigning the multimedia keys, so that you could control the games perfectly even in landscape format! The camera was way ahead of its time... I sold the device on eBay almost 10 years later for still over €350.
2:45 OMG
I REMEMBER DOING THIS WITH THE N96 PLAYING SONIC SPINBALL ON MY TV
Try Nokia Xpress Music 5730, a slide media focused phone that runs Symbian S60 V.3 if i'm not mistaken. As the Xpress Music was a booming and ahead of it's era, worth to reviewing it. If you decided to review this phone, please pin my comment. I guarantee that you would like that phone.
The Xpress Music models apparently sold quite well. I don't know nearly enough about them yet.
@@JanusCycle Nokia 3250, 5700, and the original unreleased 5710 with a similar mechanism would be interesting subjects for a video.
@@D.S.handlenokia 5710 id 5700 with better AF camera
9:23 this game was just amazing for its time. The graphics was unique, going from squares to hexagon levels were really a challenge back when I was a kid. I used to play this game in my aunt’s phone but I don’t remember the Nokia model. It was similar to the n95 except the dpad had this joystick instead of buttons
ngage 2.0?
its nostalgic to see this new video of yours because i did those tweaking things on my n95... ahhhh... those good ol days... 😢
I had the black N95, it was awesome and one of the reasons I could not get that excited about iPhone.
Nokia had other pretty cool N-series devices too. N90 that came before N95 had so high resolution, that the display was almost retina level at 259 ppi. Let that sink in. It was 2005, retina debuted with iPhone 4 in 2010. It took a long time before I saw another display that crips. The later released N95 nor iPhone came even close.
always a new adventure when janus uploads a new video
Owned this phone back in 2008 to 2010. Had a very bad OS in the beginning. Laggy, slow and unstable. Late 2008 Nokia released an update which really improved the software quality. The functionality was a big plus at the time but tbh it was also a brick in your pocket. Unfortunately, the double slide functionality wasn’t very practical when walking around having the phone in your pocket. It was always sliding and activating functions. I later replaced it with be Nokia C7 and loved its flat design.
I had the n95 8gb black version in 2008. It was ahead of time. Tv connection with car race, speed processor compared to n72 and premium stylish look were like head turners even iphone 1 didn't have that recognition
I had quite a few Nokia and non-Nokia Symbian phones: Nokia 9300, E90, N97, Sony Ericsson P910i, P1i, and W950i just to name a few that I remember.
Thank you for sharing this video. Greetings from Sydney.
Blocking installs of unsigned applixations is why I prefer Sony Ericsson. They can run whatever you throw onto it, no matter whether it's signed.
Probably one of my favourite Nokia's in my collection. Mine is also plagued by the Telstra software. Unfortunately, it also has a faulty display. Still works just a bit funky. Another great video!
the physical keys were still better than touch screen keypads which always consistently produce type errors
Lament Island actually did make use of Microphone and Phone's Camera for gameplay, such as blow into microphone for smth or point Camera, its was one of the games which used most of phones hardware
Thank you! I'm going to revisit this game in another video one day.
.sisx games were cool, but N-Gage 2.0 had all the kids in my class going nuts. I will never not miss the media buttons, they need to make a comeback. I had the 8GB model which was a humongous amount of storage back then
HMD Global could take the design of let's say the Nokia 5310, the red and black color scheme, the media buttons, the rhythmic lights that changes with music and make a touchscreen modern "Nokia" but they only do feature phones nobody want.
My mom wasn't a techy person. When she brought home a brand spanking new N95 as her phone i was really surprised. I had only read about it in tech-oriented publications.
After a while i became extremely interested in the N82, as it was one of the only phones with a "real" xenon flash. And was small and portable enough to be pocketable. Never got the chance to get one, but i still think it looks great.
I had a Nokia 5320 which ran on a later S60v3 edition and had a 369MHz CPU as well as 128MB of RAM. Jailbroke it using HelloOX and installed a lot of games and emulators on it, and also Opera Mini. It wasn't as fancy as the N95 but it did the job well for me.
I still have one in my cupboard. It had a unique feature that a thing could be done by more than one ways, for example you could utilise dedicated media buttons or you could also do it by pressing menu key. It had a removable battery, stereo speakers and a wonderful tv-out system. I watched my home movies and pics on tv with it. I also utilised this feature for calling and replying on phone while hearing the other person on tv. I really Ioved this tv-out feature that I miss in modern phones.
N 95 love that phone, no issue at all, works great in 5 years 😊😊 0:20
Thanks!
Very much appreciated, thank you.
It really is 12:24 baffling to hear all that lamenting about the 13 navigation buttons and how that was a bad design decision and let to downfall. When in fact that was THE innovation. You could get around the operation system and more importantly the browser with ease without having the actual touchscreen!!! That was the innovation from 6600 model onwards.
I loved Nokia's UI that came out of the 90s with their Human Technology. Maybe by the mid 2000s they had taken this idea a touch to far :)
HAL9000 on line again! Thank you for a new video!
lol, glad you enjoyed :)
Love your content! One of my first colour screen phones was the Nokia 6610. It didn’t have a camera but I actually had a Nokia branded plug in camera. I believe the 6610i had an integrated camera. It also had a version of bounce which was such a great game. Would love to see it in one of your awesome videos.
There are a number of versions of Bounce. I think I even tried on in my Sony Ericsson video. And there will be more Nokia phones to try them on in the future.
It really infuriates me that at their end of life support, they don't just open source all the code, schematics, etc. If they don't want to maintain the devices anymore, let us.
I understand that companies might have some commercial secrets they wish to protect.
But otherwise I completely agree. To all companies: Be proud of your legacy and recognize the culture your products have created by releasing this sort of information when you abandon your support.
Someone should get copy of sv5 annabelle firmware to keep it from extinction
A great video about the N95, they truly were the earliest smart phones of the day.
3:10 Not only by Qualcomm, but also by the MediaTek and Samsung Exynos chipsets.
I'm somewhat sure that back in the days of the N95 and the first iPhones, the only chipsets that were there would be from Texas Instruments, Broadcom, and Qualcomm, and so on... MediaTek and Exynos weren't there back in early 2010s yet.
@@jamesbrendan5170 At that time, there was also a Nomadik chip by ST-Ericsson, XScale by Intel (before they sold this division to Marvell), Nexperia and Freescale chips by now-NXP. Samsung actually made the CPUs even before the Exynos branding. They were in the iPhones up to 3GS.
I had N95 and N96. Best buys at that time😎
I miss typing blind with those alphanumeric keys😂
This was my best Nokia feature packed phone that I held back then, loved every bit of it.
My first phone is Nokia, and I love Nokia company until now
I was hoping on a nokia video, i even wrote a comment on one of the previous videos saying this. You delivered with quality, once again.
Great work. Loved the video. Keep it up !
Should we move on to early android phones with amazing custom kernels with gpu and cpu overclocking and the "fast charge" tweaks that make your battery bloat like a baloon in a few charges ? xD
Good old rom flashing days
Yes, there are some early Android phones that need looking at and modding :)
God I miss the N Series. Those were the best phones Nokia had ever made.
My first phone, such a blast, well deserved prize for the time, how time flies by 😅😅
Anybody here who had Nokia 6600...?
I had one..😂
@@jebu100 Remember the game Metal Bluster...?
meeee
Before i have 😂
As a gamer that time, the joystick is pain in the ass 😫
@@jesACE06 Yeah, that Nokia 6600's joystick.
I remember having this phone. Amazing device. There was some racing game on it that took hours of my time during the day. I hope I can buy one again now after seeing this video.
Love the irony you show of using Norton
Great video , in the UK the networks put annoying branding on these phones but it was possible to debrand these phones by downloading the default Nokia firmware from the Nokia servers and flashing the default firmware to the phone which improved them considerably, a SIM interposer gave the network unlock. The best feature imo was the ngage platform could be added and a range of games including a 3d fishing game called creatures of the deep which was superb and still Playable to this day.
Speaking of horror games, anyone remember 7 days salvation?
This was my dream phone back in high school but I did manage to get a N73 and install the music edition firmware on it. I still love Symbian after all these years, for me it was mind blowing.
I missed out on this one but I did have the N900. It fulfilled my dreams of a tiny micro computer. And it also had that dope-ass analog video out that the N95 did.
That was the phone of my dreams, not the stupid Lumias they started making with Microsoft. I still think back about it and what the world would look like if it hadn't been abandoned. It's so sad. I think it was hundred times better than Android at the time. I still follow Jolla and hope they will get somewhere.
cringe ass flag
There was a weird thing going on with the n900, my friend sent one to Nokia because of a security risk that needed to be patched and he didn't get the n900 back. Apparently this happened to several people.
Hello. What a great video! Thank you so much for your post! Now I want one! Two things you did not cover that I hope you will address in a future video. 1) Is someone making new batteries for this phone that you can buy? Or do you have to find a old dead battery, take the battery case apart and built up a battery pack for this phone? 2) Can you make and receive phone calls on this phone any more? Any hacks to let that happen? I love older technology and this takes me back in time. I am 74 years old. And while I have used Nokia phones long ago, never this one. What a lovely phone it is! Many thanks.
Replacement batteries are still available, look for Nokia BL-5F and BL-6F batteries. This phone still makes calls fine in areas with 3G service.
Here in Australia 3G service is being turned off this year, so I'm pleased I was able to use this phone before that happened.
@@JanusCycle Thank you so much for that addition information. This phone has a SD slot for extra memory, correct? Have you ever found a service manual for this phone? Someone should pdf a service manual for it and post it to a web site so we can all download it. Is a owners manual available on line? I love all the hacks available to keep this phone alive. I guess I can make phone calls via hooking the phone up to my WiFi at my home. I am in the US. I need to see if G3 is still offered here. What a great video!!! Thank you again.
Sorry, one more question - No G3 here in the USA. Can I hook this phone up to my home WiFi and send and receive text messages? How about phone calls? I am thinking no, but I thought I would ask.... What a lovely phone!!!
@@TheAuriconGroup No calls or messages possible over N95 WiFi unfortunately. The silver fronted models have a Micro SD slot. The black fronted models have 8GB build in and no card slot.
@@JanusCycle Hello Janus.... OK, thank you. Now that I think about it, as G3 is dead, no way text messages or calls over WiFi would work. I had a brain fart - Sorry. I will look for a silver model. How large of a mico SD card can the silver model take? Of the two batteries you suggested ( BL-5F and BL-6F batteries) which one is larger? - or are either one just as good? I love this phone!
The times when they could produce and offer new and exciting things....they deliberately shut it down because a new era of surveillance had to be implemented!
Thanks
Thank you very much! I'm pleased you enjoyed this :)
I still can't accept the fall of Nokia. They were true Royalty.
And I celebrate it everytime a video about Nokia pops up in my feed...
My biggest complain with the N95 8GB, back in the day, was that it probably had the slowest flash memory I have ever seen in my life, period.
Also, it lacked FP2, the system was kinda sluggish compared to other FP2 devices, like the 6120 Classic, which is as snappy as it gets.
This channel is just amazing.
My favorite Nokia's symbian is 7650. Sometimes I take it as a daily driver)
Thanks you. Nokia 7650, the first widely available camera phone! (I'm sure Japan had some beforehand)
Nokia N73,
flashed the rom with a multimedia edition, installed unicode fonts supporting my alphabet, and was working perfectly for 4 years, just usual signs of ware , switched to Galaxy Note in 2012
Stellar review!
Even with these innovations they died . Too much Stubbornness is not good.
This video brings memories N95 8gb was my phone,way ahead of any other phone in that time . Amazing
Not sure why but somehow symbian always rubbed me the wrong way - never found it particularly interesting, maybe at that point I was just spoiled by palm and everything it could do.
The real monster that nokia created at that time was the N900 - that thing had anything and everything, friend had one and was doing half of IT admin work right from it.
I must say I don't regret staying with Sony Ericsson at the time. Possibly because I also had Palm and then an iPod touch. But everything was changing so quickly.
@@JanusCycle heh, changing it was, but by that time I had a feeling of 'I seen it all' and just kinda stopped being interested in the shiniest new toys - to the point that I got my first smartphone very late, loved the size and feel of Samsung U900, but it just got flash corruption at that point, it was time to let go...
Smartphones these days? Don't get me started.
You shoud cover the Nokia N9, it would be interesting
I'm really looking forward to getting an N9.
@@JanusCycle and can you cover the "not enough power in order to charge the device" issue when Nokia N9 is connected to a pc ?
When I connect my Nokia N9 to a PC and when I choose the Mass storage option, it says Mass storage in use and 2 seconds later it says "Not enough power in order to charge the device" and my pc says USB device is not recognised. That wasn't happening before. Before it will connect normally to my PC when I choose Mass storage option
Loved this for the memories. I loved my N95 and I also had the N73 and N82
In 2008 2 of my friends had n95 few others had Windows mobile(PPC )phones then when iPhone got released one of them got it realised there is no extended memory and there was some kind of block on transfer files with other devices via Bluetooth he returned it.
I had the N95 8GB and I was so proud of it. It felt like an extension of the design of the 8800 but with smartphone capability.
I remember being amazed by the smoothness of Nokia maps, an app that Nokia would try to show off in its competition with the iPhone.
Sadly when it came to the phone's successor they made the N96 which felt like it had been made with Lego so I ended up looking at the new Xperia range, the X1 (windows mobile) and the X10 (android). I would have bought a Nokia but by the time they made the leap to touchscreen phones they ended up landing on the Windows phone I had given up on them entirely. I miss their wow factor and how excited I was when I got the N95 8GB
I had this phone in the past years, in the year nokia N-series is release in the Market, a lot of times using my N95 phone, but the problem is the slider of the phone it is damage and I coudn't fix it, and I search for a nokia service center in my country but I do not find one, after the slider is damage next is the ips screen, suddenly it stop working, I still have my N95 phone, I keept it hope to fix it in the future, best phone I ever had in the good old days, thanks Nokia and for this channel reviewing N-95 Phone