
The Nokia N95 is widely recognized as the flagship device from Nokia and for good reason. It’s got a great business-oriented appearance, but at the same time, it has plenty of multimedia functionality to boot. The dual slider design allows for a great user interface. Slide it one way to reveal a standard numeric keypad for dialing, but slide it the other way and you get a multimedia controls for playing music and movies. Around the back is a formidable five megapixel camera that can also take videos. In terms of business functionality, the real only thing missing is a full QWERTY keyboard, so if you’re heavy on text messages and emails, you might want to look elsewhere.
Up until now, the Nokia N95 has been pretty hard to come by in Canada, forcing buyers to look to the official Nokia store in the United States or through a series of importers who charge a fairly significant premium. Well, there are rumors floating around that Rogers Wireless is about to pick up this Symbian-based smartphone and they will likely offer the phone with a subsidy when you sign a three-year contract. This could mean that you could own a Nokia N95 for less than $500.
There is a screenshot floating around on the Internet that shows the Nokia N95 as part of the listed products on the Rogers Wireless website. Was this a leak or simply an error? Time will tell, but it could bode well for any Nokia fans in the audience.





Hockey Mom
January 15, 2008 9:57 am
How does this compare to the I-Phone? Thet both sound pretty similar to me and I also heard Rogers was picking that one up here in Canada.
Michael Kwan
January 15, 2008 1:27 pm
I’d say that they’re too rather different devices. The N95 is a Symbian-based smartphone and it has a conventional numeric keypad. The iPhone runs on a propriety Apple UI and comes with a full touchscreen, instead of conventional keys. It’s also (generally) easier to load apps on the Nokia than it is on the iPhone.