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What a great marketing ploy by Nokia - but seriously, what 'proper' journalist is going to be using a N95? Come on now; the battery would be dead in an hour, the GPS takes forever to get a fix and camera is terrible (even at 5mp, it not for serious pro use). If a laptop is not available, Windows Mobile would be a far more sensible. The N95 is not a proper smart phone, it may be the "ultimate device" for clueless fanboys like Jon above who dont understand what a proper smartphone is, but there are already devices and software (lets face in, Symbain development is incredibly lame compared to the other platforms) out there that can do the job 10 times better. And the N95 is being discontinued soon anyway. Maybe you mean the new 8gb version Engadget ;)
Suddenly I am a fanboy...
Search my post history mate and you will see that I also own plenty of Windows Mobile phones in the past. Currently using XDA Orbit and N80. Thankfully I can easily adapt to any smart phone platform, quite unlike you who seem to be the fanboy here.
There is NOTHING in the windows mobile scene that can keep up with the multimedia capabilities of the N95.
Al, in most ways the Tilt and new i-mate phones surpass the N95, except the N95's image quality is undoubtedly better. (As a side note, it'd be nice to have a subjective evaluation of image replace meaningless megapixel ratings). The fact that Nokia phones don't have touch screens is a big drawback, not just for navigation but also for quick sketches.
@huh, both has their drawbacks. I prefer to use Nokia during the week when I have to commute. Easier to text one handed as navigation through the menus is easier. Windows Mobile with touchscreen is easier for other heavier tasks like editing documents and surfing the web.
It would be interesting to see next year when Nokia implements touchscreen onto S60 platform and Microsoft finally merge their smartphone platform with Pocket PC. I can't wait.
@Jon, those are good points, but I was mainly going on facility compared to the idea of a mobile journalism device (which I think is a very valid pursuit by the way). But now that you mention it, having very quick access to image/video/audio capture would be important on such a device; in addition to poor image quality (despite raw megapixel capability), most devices are very sluggish so would be poorly suited for this task.