No more crappy spyshots and speculations. Nokia has officially unveiled the Nokia N95…
Yahoo: Finland’s Nokia, the world’s top cell phone maker, on Tuesday unveiled a pair of media phones and a music service in a bid to increase revenue and win back popularity lost to rivals.
Nokia hopes to regain ground lost to phones such as Motorola’s fast-selling Razr with sleeker devices equipped with music players and powerful cameras in what it sees as the fastest-growing cell phone market segment.
Nokia unveiled the N95, a high powered camera phone, and a slimmer model called the N75, which has dedicated music player buttons and is aimed at U.S. consumers. It also plans to boost demand with a service for sampling new music.
Nokia said the N95, its first phone with location mapping and a 5 megapixel camera, will sell in volume in the first quarter via a number of European and Asian providers. It is priced at about 550 euro, before subsidies and taxes. (…)
Nokia’s N-series, which it first launched last year, represented a push toward more stylish and lighter phone models. Critics have said previous phones in the lineup fell short of Samsung’s and Motorola’s thin models.
The company has since reshaped its design operations and crafted the N95 with a cover that slides open.
The N95 shows “Nokia is trying to innovate around the design of its products — something that has been lacking for too long,” said Ben Wood, director at British research firm Collins Consulting.
Phone makers such as Nokia hope service provider offerings like music and video downloads will boost demand for advanced cell phones. Nokia hopes to sell 80 million music phones this year and said it has sold 10 million Nseries phones so far. (…)
“The N-Series is not a device for the mass market,” Nokia vice president Ralph Kunz told Reuters. “The experiences you find in these services are going to trickle down to the low end devices.”
The N95 will also offer consumers free maps from Tele Atlas NV (TA.AS) and GPS location data in more than 100 countries.
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Paul | Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 11:19
Hi, just got the N95 8GB from http://www.allukphonedeals.co.uk/ and I want to use my copy of tomtom on it. Currently it’s on sd card for my XDA exec. Anyone know how to get it installed and working for my N95? I’ve read that it won’t work with the built in gps but i do have the bluetooth jobbie I used on the XDA.