23 April 2007

It's not necessary 2B perfect 2B famous!

As you might already know, screen is enlarged to 2.6". It’s active matrix QVGA (320 x 240) color display, with incredible good viewing angle of wide 160° and it is capable to show up to 16M colors. Backlight intensity as well as its duration is configurable and also controlled via the light sensor. As I have already mentioned, the screen lacks stronger protection. The material from which this protection is made of is soft and also allows fingerprints to be quite visible and it definitely requires frequent cleaning so be sure that you always have some soft cloth in the pocket. Another bad point is that legibility of the display remains rather poor under direct sunlight. You see, I made a huge comparison camera test for this review, I’ve had N90, N73, N93 and N95 on the test and N95’s screen is the hardest to use on direct sunlight, sometimes it’s even impossible to see the scene and status of the focus indicator.

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Display is undeniably great, large, really large and it causes this very well known “wow-effect” at first sight which will remain for a quite long time. But the most important thing is the fact that the resolution remains the same, causing the situation with pixel density to be even worse than on N93 although it’s hard to notice any difference in pixel density at first sight.

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If you have been here for long enough then you should be well aware of my love for phones that use high resolution screens and I accept that I am maybe a little bit too subjective but it does not mean that I have to hide my disappointment with this screen. I have expected better screen and therefore I am truly disappointed with N95’s resolution and pixel density; even more than I was with the Nokia N93, QVGA (320x240) just is not enough for such a large screen and such an impressive hardware. While on the high-resolution screens like we have on N80 or N90 pixels matrix is only visible through macro eye of the good digital cam and human eye is not so perfect to see it, on N95’s screen situation is different and human eye is perfect enough to see the matrix.

HR vs. LR
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N95 is based on the same hardware platform as the N93: Texas’s OMAP 2420 chipset and ARM11 332MHz processor. The mentioned chipset supports resolutions up to VGA and the S60 platform 3rd edition FP1 also brings support for HVGA and VGA screen resolutions. So all conditions for VGA screen (except the battery) are there but we still have to wait a little bit more for first Nokia phone with higher resolution. How long Nokia!?

However, from another point of view, there is no doubt that average phone user would be completely satisfied and impressed with this huge screen; especially owners of some older phones with lower resolution screens.

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Let me try to explain above images. They show relation between resolution and psychical size of the screen, higher score is better of course. Nokia N90/80s screen, with more than 10.000 pixels per square cm looks simply wonderful, showed image is almost ideal, even very bad photos look wonderful compressed on such a screen, it is impossible to see single pixel without magnifier because physical size of the pixel is too small, slant line is a line not a stairway if you know what I mean.

HR vs. LR
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Besides the better and sharper image, HR screens are capable to show more information which is crucial in using the net browser or working with office documents, excel for example. And it is the pretty important fact when we’ve talked about small mobile phones screens isn’t it!?

This phone definitely deserves better resolution, such as great VGA recorder requires a great VGA display, and that’s what I have expected from this phone, especially considering that Texas’s chipset supports VGA resolution and there is already Sharp’s phone that features VGA resolution even on the physically smaller screen. Anyway, ~3” screen is the perfect physical size for VGA resolution and I truly hope that we can expect such a phone very soon.

HR vs. LR
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Anyway, to sum on, screen is insufficient for one power user but there is no doubt that average phone user would be completely satisfied with this screen; especially owners of the some older phones with lower resolution screens.

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.:[ Nokia N95 - Technical Specifications ]:.