I stopped by the Nokia store here in Hong Kong (Causeway Bay) tonight to drool over the Vertu phones (I sh*t you not, one of them is $21,000 USD. wow) and they have a N95 prototype behind glass that you can look at but not touch.
Man that phone looks nice -- it seems to be about N80 size-ish (hard to tell exactly) but it's definitely smaller than I though it was going to be. The keys look large and useable, it's thinner than I expected as well.
One of the dudes there actually got to work with the phone (he seemed a more... higher level? employee) and said the GPS functionality is amazing, he was driving all over HK and the device was spot-on without any problems. He also mentioned that he thought the N95 was a lot faster/more responsive than the N93! (no idea if that means CPU or OS tweaks).
Internally they're estimating a January 2007 / Q1 release of the device, he said about $750 USD ($6000 HKD) but that was a best guess, not firm/final. Silver only as far as he knows, no black variant.
unF.
Man that phone looks nice -- it seems to be about N80 size-ish (hard to tell exactly) but it's definitely smaller than I though it was going to be. The keys look large and useable, it's thinner than I expected as well.
One of the dudes there actually got to work with the phone (he seemed a more... higher level? employee) and said the GPS functionality is amazing, he was driving all over HK and the device was spot-on without any problems. He also mentioned that he thought the N95 was a lot faster/more responsive than the N93! (no idea if that means CPU or OS tweaks).
Internally they're estimating a January 2007 / Q1 release of the device, he said about $750 USD ($6000 HKD) but that was a best guess, not firm/final. Silver only as far as he knows, no black variant.
unF.