Nokia's Clever Design That Created A Monster
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- This is Peak Nokia: The N95 was the model that brought the smartphone to the masses. How did Nokia then fail only three years later? Let's examine this phone closely, explore what it can do, and see if there are any clues about it that point to what led to Nokia's demise.
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you should have tried loading gba roms and psx emulation on this device @@JanusCycle
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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.
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!
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.
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.
Opera Mini was the best mobile browser back in those days. My first digital pictures and videos was taken in a Nokia N95.
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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 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.
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
The quality of that Composite Video Out from that phone is surprisingly good!
Top tip... It IS just as good as regular composite out. Most camcorders had a 7.5mm headphone jack for composite out. The frames themselves are easy to render given they're only 240x480 per interlaced field. (480i total) 👍😎
I sometimes feel like Janus is making magnificent commercials for stuff they don't sell anymore.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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).
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
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 ;)
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.
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.
Such a good video! Very well done. Like time travel! Keep making these 👍🏼
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.
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.
This was my first smart phone. I went to the launch party Nokia had in Melbourne. I worked for Vodafone at the time. Its wifi hotspot was mind blowing.
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 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.
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 .
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.
Now that you mention symbian, you made me remember of a older phone I had, a Sendo X, hell of a smartphone for its time
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 😁
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.
This was my best Nokia feature packed phone that I held back then, loved every bit of it.
always a new adventure when janus uploads a new video
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.
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...
Thank you for sharing this video. Greetings from Sydney.
i had an e63 and subsequently upgraded to a e73 that i used all the way back until 2015. love the full physical keyboard, perfect for touch-typing under the desk at school.
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.
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.
I used Nokia N70 Music Edition for 6 years. I loved it some much. The feature i liked most was it supported both symbian and java apps. Searching and installing cracked version apps from 3rd party websites was fun. Installing themes to change the look was so easy which today's android phones lack.
2:40 got me bopping, such an amazing movie and song
Anybody here who had Nokia 6600...?
I had one..😂
@@jebu100 Remember the game Metal Bluster...?
God I miss the N Series. Those were the best phones Nokia had ever made.
I still have my black N95 8GB and it still works. It was bought on launch day and used for 2 years without any issues
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.
.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 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.
Still one of the best phones I've ever owned. I kept mine for years, then when I did finally upgrade, I kept it for another few years to use as a dedicated sat nav.
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.
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.
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.
A great video about the N95, they truly were the earliest smart phones of the day.
Never had the N95 (as I was just in 5th grade at the time), but I had two Symbian OS phones- Nokia 6600 and Nokia X6 '09. I remember playing tons of games as a kid including SkyForce as well. Red Faction, Puyo Pop, Frozen Bubble, Railrider, Rayman 3 were some of my favorites. Watching this video today helps me remember how I dreamt about getting this phone and wishing I was older that year to be able to buy one myself. I think Nokia N95 was the GOAT. It was Nokia's peak. Sadly, when one thing reaches its peak, there's no other way but to go down.
Also, I remember at least the first three iPhones seeming less powerful than the flagship Nokias at least on paper. By just looking at this N95, it has a front camera which iPhones did not have until 2010. I didn't like having no dedicated capture button on those early touch screen phones which didn't have front cams (or of bad quality) because it was basically impossible to take pictures of yourself (weren't called "selfies" yet back then).
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?
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.
Still have it in my drawer. Went through the 3 screens replacement and 2 batteries. 8G version have had a glass screen protector if I remember correctly.
I still have a pristine N95 in a drawer somewhere. I loved it so much that I didn't want to sell it when I replaced it with the N8 after a year of use. The only reason I got the N8 was that the mobile phone industry was moving to the touch based interface, plus the N8 had the best cameras on a phone at the time (with a real xenon flash too!) In hind sight, though, I now realize that the N95 was the better phone to use.
I'm glad you kept yours.
Speaking of horror games, anyone remember 7 days salvation?
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.
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.
That video out function was a lifesaver for the times my screen stopped working/I broke it.
Same problem with my n95, screen stop working, and no nokia service center available, no parts for the slide
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
HAL9000 on line again! Thank you for a new video!
lol, glad you enjoyed :)
Stellar review!
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 miss typing blind with those alphanumeric keys😂
This video brings memories N95 8gb was my phone,way ahead of any other phone in that time . Amazing
4:32 That "Made in Finland" reads and feels premium. Good old days.
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.
Love the irony you show of using Norton
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 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 :)
Wow, I remember buying an N95 when 3G launched in Australia! I can honestly say it was an unmemorable time, so I look forward to Janus telling us about what it could actually do! 👍😎🇦🇺
Edit: just found photos from 2008 taken on my N95 and in hindsight I really didn't utilise it's full potential.
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
its nostalgic to see this new video of yours because i did those tweaking things on my n95... ahhhh... those good ol days... 😢
I used to work in Nokia factory in Finland, in N95 assembly line. They used the name ”Aalto” (=wave) for that phone in the factory.
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.
Have used this beauty for 4 years. It was far ahead of rivals in terms of specs.
I too had a Sony Ericson K750i. It was realy cool with it's micro size and 2MP camera. The first I could use to capture number plates in the event of an accident. I had to ditch it because it would often switch off, and I was refused customer service for this common problem.
I then bought the N95. I took macro photos of a clover flower on a foggy morning. Among the best photos I have taken. At last I had a decent camera with me all the time.
That's why I use a Samsung Ultra now.
i remember having a presentation at school, plugging in my phone to the tv and nobody believed me, the video was coming from the phone
Amazing content mate
thanks!
Ooooh jeeez, very fond memories using Nokia phones back in the day, I used the Nokia 3250 music phone, favorite feature was the twist keypad and camera section, I also used the Nokia 6600, Nokia N81 and also the senior brother of the N95, the N96 and N97, these were really phones ahead of their time ⏲️, really really fond memories, I remember having a full archive of symbian S60 applications and I would share with friends using the xplore app.
My first experience was the N-Gage as a S60 device. I was back in school when it launched and we all got them, modded them and played multiplayer games on them in class!
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!
that was one of the few n series I never had but always wanted. best line of phones ever in my opinion. special place in my heart for s60v3. my favorites were the N75,N81,N82,N86, and N96. I remember spending hours researching these phones and having so much fun.
Appreciate you much Mate so much Nostalgia this channel has such a Gem on TH-cam
The Nokia N95 was such a chad phone back in the day .. The sliding mechanism for music controls was so cool .. It always felt like it needed a extra layer protection on the phone which nokia did attend to with their upgrade device over the N95 ... The N series was truly magical ... 💖💖
If you ever want to buy a fully setup sharp Zauras without battery or back cover let me know ..... got a spare
I go to the flea markets all the time each weekend got alot of rare devices I have about a bag full accumulated over 15 years and 3 boxes of Japanese retro electronics from Japan Yahoo auctions (1980s - 2010s) from which I can't even find a TH-cam review about with close to half the devices .
I would love to know which Zaurus model you have. There are a couple I would like to make videos about. Feel free to email me if you wish. I enjoy hearing about the kinds of devices that people collect, especially weird Japanese ones :)
I had an E50 and I LOVED IT. I changed everything I could from ROM to themes, etc. Wonderful times for sure.
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
Subbed! Cool video. I own 111 different models of Nokia. There is just something about them...and the nostalgia Nokia brings to the table....wow.
Wow that's a lot of Nokia
You remind me that I should build a decent new rom with modern software for my HTC Desire Z. Loved this machine so much.
Really nice model there, certainly worth doing a new rom for it.
Cool video!
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
Thank you for this video. Bring back memories. Can you do a video with 3250?
I would love one of those models, very interesting control rotation!