Nokia N95 Review

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Nokia N95
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waynerrr's Review of Nokia N95

15th Sep 2008

Overall Rating

0.5 stars
  • Value for money
    2 stars
  • Time Phone Owned
    1 - 6 Months
  • Battery Life
    2.5 stars
  • Reception
    1.5 stars
  • Reviewers Network
    Tmobile
  • Screen Quality
    2.5 stars
  • Features
    2.5 stars
  • Style
    2.5 stars
Good Points

Internet experience good


Bad Points

GPS satnav - NOT GOOD


General Comments

Nokia recognises that there is a problem with the GPS satnav system and have come up with the "assisted GPS" idea

The problem was that I found the assisted GPS was fine if you were in the city, but once you got into the countryside, rural areas then it became a problem once again.

Assisted GPS is their work-around to poor GPS satnav equipment.
Assisted GPS is NOT "true" satnav. Rather than getting the signal directly from the satellite (as in your cars satnav system), assisted GPS gets its positioning by using ground base stations (Nokia says that it gets it's initial positioning by using these base station and then connects to satellite, I am skeptical of that, I'd love to see their proof of this).

I'll tell you what happened to me & my Nokia N95 (maybe it was just MY phone that was faulty??),

Without assisted GPS the satnav capabilities of my phone was zero.

With Assisted GPS, the satnav at last started to work quite well.

But it was a false dawn, because although in the city all worked well, I wanted to see what happened when I was in more remote areas (country lanes & on a mountain). what i found was that the GPS satnav was useless. It would not find the satellite and location. I ran it alongside my cars satnav. Whereby the cars satnav pinpointed my position wherever i was in the countryside, the N95 failed dismally. After all that hope i was back to square 1.

There equipment must be flawed? Look at the evidence? Why would they come up with assisted GPS?

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