I’ve been playing with Nokia’s latest mobile device — the N95 — and consider it a breakthrough in digital media.
Oh, it’s a phone, naturally. But it’s so much more, including WiFi, GPS, MP3 recording and playback, a 5-megapixel digital camera and MPEG 4, 30-frames-per-second video recording and playback, Web browsing, email and, of course, text. There’s more, but you get the idea.
The journalistic potential for the N95 is simply enormous. My UC-Berkeley students took some phones Nokia loaned us to New Orleans to work on a class project (more on that very soon), and I have plans for several cool experiments in the near future.
I wish it had a full QWERTY keyboard, and I’m sure that a slight re-design could make that happen. But for now I believe this device has carved out the sweet spot in the mobile digital content arena.
Look for a much more detailed report soon.
on May 14th, 2007 at 6:05 am
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on May 16th, 2007 at 2:26 am
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on Aug 15th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
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