So is the N95 a keeper? Or do you want your money back? (or got it back already)

First 2 N95 i've had was really bad, bought them at Nokia Flagship store, they both have the high pitched hissing sound and rattling wobbly slider and also when you tilt the n95 upside down the top one moves up and down.

So then I returned both of them for an exchange and one of the managers helped me out and opened the other new and sealed 4 boxes of N95 to exchange my bad unit and they all got the same problem. He told me they will send the N95's back to Nokia to get it checked up and evaluated. Funny thing is, the manager owned an n95 too and his doesn't have the hissing sound and slider was tight.

So I took the risk and bought another N95 (sand) APAC version at phonesource (nomore 1yr US Warranty), lucky for me the hissing sound was gone and the slider is virgin tight and now i can proudly say this is a KEEPER!! I'm not saying APAC is better than MIF because I know that it doesn't really matter where it is made from.
 
I don't know Greenteeth. Did you read Symbian Freak's N95 review, particularly the second half of page 4 where he talks about RAM:
http://www.symbian-freak.com/reviews/n95/n95_review_04.htm
He says things like: "safari fails to load complex pages very often, actually it loads page but without images with ugly memory low pop-up, tabbed browsing is basically impossible" and "even without single application in the background, gallery applications fail to zoom images more than 50%". I really don't think he's making this up. A friend of mine who bought the N95 reported the same thing and promtply returned the phone few days later.
I've been living with this low RAM nightmare in my E70 for 10 months now and while it is a good phone with a lot going for it, I cannot wait to get rid of it and get an E90 with which I can finally breathe easy while having a bunch of apps open at the same time and switch between them at will and not worry about things closing in the background. I will never again buy an S60 device without a good amount of RAM - it's just too frustrating to me and I refuse to compromise on this.
By the way, it's interesting that Symbian Freak said that the N76 has ~44MB of free RAM on bootup - that would mean that it probably has 96MB of physical RAM onboard (E90 has 128MB with ~80MB free). This sounds exactly what Nokia should have done with the N95 - I'm really really disappointed that they didn't. By the way, I wouldn't consider the N76 because its battery is just laughable at 700 mAh - that thing has barely over 2 hours of talk time on GSM.
 
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