Nokia Corp. has started shipping its N95 mobile phone in Europe and Asia, the first in an expected series of devices from the Finnish company with built-in GPS (global positioning system) capabilities.
The N95 is rich in features and carries a price tag to match: At ?550 (US$732) before operator rebates it is one of the priciest additions to Nokia’s Nseries range. Nokia calls it a “multimedia computer.” No plans were announced to sell it in the Americas.
The mobile phone is a slider-type device with a 5-megapixel camera for shooting photos and 30-frames-per-second video. It has a 2.6-inch TFT display with 240 x 320 pixel screen resolution, and comes with an MP3 music player and a MicroSD memory card slot.
The phone works on HSDPA (high speed downlink packet access) networks, as well as wireless LANs, EDGE and WCDMA networks, and it’s based on Nokia’s S60 software and the Symbian OS.
