Nokia N95 blushes a bright red for us

It's not quite as technologically interesting as the N95 8GB for North America, but bright, pretty colors can certainly sell as many phones as a good chunk of internal ROM can. We spotted an in-your-face red N95 at the Nokia booth of Digital Experience this evening, and guess what? It's not custom painted, it's not some sort of funky special edition -- it's real, it's coming, and more importantly, it's coming here. Word on the street we'll see it before the first quarter's out for $599, implying that there's a little price drop for N95s of all colors in the cards for the near future.

[coolant8 @ Jan 7th 2008 5:14AM]

Damn you nokia, I just got my n95 8gb.

[K Nang @ Jan 7th 2008 5:19AM]

me too! that red's looking niiiiiiice

[Richard @ Jan 7th 2008 5:26AM]

I thought the black N95-8G was ugly personally. My spin on 2008 is black is out and rainbow like colour are in.

[Hung @ Jan 9th 2008 12:25AM]

Have you ever heard of a bar called "Chippendales?" I think you'd really enjoy it, based on your disdain of black and affection for flamboyant colors.

I wish there was a way I could make that joke without offending gay people, but there's not. I'm really sorry about that.

[BenH @ Jan 7th 2008 5:38AM]

When you say 'coming here', I assume you mean North America. Silly me, I thought Engadget served a global audience.

[Rik @ Jan 7th 2008 6:27AM]

That's what you get when you write in English eh?

[Chris Ziegler @ Jan 7th 2008 10:18AM]

BenH - of course we serve a global audience, but we think that most folks also realize that a) we're a US based site and b) we, like virtually every other tech site, are at CES in Las Vegas right now. Sorry for the confusion.

Chris

[Alya @ Jan 7th 2008 6:51AM]

i think black is much better! especially for man.
Red is nice, but not more...

Alya
SuTree.com

[Magallanes @ Jan 7th 2008 10:04AM]

Agreed, and for corporate uses, black, sand and silver are just fine.

[roole @ Jan 7th 2008 9:16AM]

Boy it's ugly. But has lot of functionality.

[Will Design for Food @ Jan 7th 2008 10:41AM]

I like the Nokia N95, but I settled on the iPhone for one reason, the build quality just doesn't feel, I guess the word is "sturdy." The plastic pieces just feel cheap to me. I had a Nokia 8801 and that thing was awesome, the build quality was great, it felt great. But until they put a decent case on this thing I wouldn't pick one up, no matter what color they make it in.