Inate00 | # 1 | 2008-03-15, 15:53 | Report

For those of you who haven't read any of my posts before, I just recently picked up an N800, and find myself wanting to use it more and more. I know it will never truly function as a cell phone, but I would still like to get an all in one phone like an iphone or the N95.

Here's the question. Are there any unique benefits to having both an IT as well as the N95 (or any other Nokia phone)? I'm speaking of such things as interoperability, proprietary features, ect?

I'm in the market for a new cell phone and have always been a Motorola user, however picking up this IT has made me think about switching carriers so I can go with a really cool GSM phone such as the N95 or something very similar from Nokia.

Thanks for anyone who may respond to my ramblings.

sachin007 | # 2 | 2008-03-15, 16:23 | Report

First of all welcome to this wonderful world.
I personally feel motorola is the crapiest of all mobile phone companies!

Coming from moto you will be blown by how muuch more one can do with a nokia!

Coming to your question, First of all i dont see any advantage buying a n95 because you cannot use the inbuilt gps of the n95 along with the n800. And another issues is the battery life. The n95 does not have the best of battery life.

I would suggest a decent 3g nokia phone with a good enough battery life would suffice. unless you want to shoot high quality photos with the n95 5 mp camera.
You can always a purchase a 3 rd party cheap gps. that will make a good combination.

Jaykie | # 3 | 2008-03-15, 16:23 | Report

I have N810 and N82 which is basically similar to N95 except it has a better Xenon flash for its 5mpix camera. Haven't really had any problems pairing it with N810 using bluetooth and using flatrate 1MB/s data.

There's also a cool joikuspot beta software available for Nokia phones with Wifi. It turns your phone into wifi access spot so you can use it as a wifi router for your N810. Of course it's preferred that you have a flatrate hsdpa data plan with your carrier.

http://www.joiku.com/?action=product...product_id=310

br,Jaykie

qwerty12 | # 4 | 2008-03-15, 16:24 | Report

Yes, you can. Search this forum for extgps.

Jaykie | # 5 | 2008-03-15, 16:27 | Report

Actually you can use in-built GPS in N95 for N800. You just need to install free ExtGPS application which will turn your phone into bluetooth GPS receiver for your N800.

http://www.nokiausers.net/Reviews/Ex...for-S60v3.html

EDIT: Seems like qwerty12 beat me with this one

sachin007 | # 6 | 2008-03-15, 16:28 | Report

My bad. My knowledge is a little rusty. sorry and thanks

scumgrief | # 7 | 2008-03-15, 16:30 | Report

Ik what you mean:

Proprietary
Bad Antennae Placement (especially on the Razor V3)

JamesU | # 8 | 2008-03-15, 17:07 | Report

Personally i have both an N800 and an N95.

Unfortunately i cannot think of any good unique benefits of having both, apart from being able to share the gps and gsm/3g.

Still, both devices have their own benefits. e.g. The N800 has a great software platform, and the N95 has a pretty cool camera.

here.david | # 9 | 2008-03-15, 19:52 | Report

I have the N82 and find the two together are excellent....I also have TomTom on the N82 so now I only have two devices vs. the six I used to carry, GPS, ipod-music, Treo, Razr, ipaq, laptop for video and wireless tools,,, the N82 is awesome and while the music/video/e-mail/GPS is also on the N810 I can go between the two to maximize battery usability.

In my 2007 Prius the Treo kind of worked, the Razr better - no battery indicator/poor battery life - the N82 does it all PLUS I can have many Bluetooth items connected at the same time and seemly transfer between them with great battery life...

Rocketman | # 10 | 2008-03-15, 21:07 | Report

I have a N95 and N800 and N810. The N810+N95 is my everyday two pocket solution. I use the EDGE link of my N95 to get online with my N810 from just about anywhere. Another nice thing is that I can download 5 megapixel images from my phone to my N810 over bluetooth to display them on the n810's larger, higher resolution screen. I can then upload them to Flickr or Gallery. Bluetooth is slow, but I can start a transfer and then go on with whatever I was doing, rather than spend time swapping memory cards. Still, I miss the convenience offered by my 800's two SDHC card slots. On vacation, I often took pictures with my Nikon D80 and then culled and uploaded them at the end of the day using my N800. It was great to not have to carry a laptop for basic photo stuff!

I don't often attempt to use the inbuilt GPS on either my n810 or N95, as they offer extremely poor performance compared to even an inexpensive bluetooth GPS like my Holux M1000. With multi-minute time to first fix, poor positional accuracy, inability to keep more than a handful of satellites locked in even generous environments and you can see why the built in GPS units on the N95 and N810 aren't worth using except in an extreme pinch. The N810, however, makes a great GPS mapping solution with Maemo Mapper and an external bluetooth GPS, especially with its daylight viewable transflexive display and the car dash mount that is included in the n810's packaging.

I've actually been considering upgrading my year old $650 version 1 N95 for a version 3 in order to get 3g service in the US, get more battery life, more memory, etc. I like the paring that much