Nokia N95 or SE C902

okay, i just wrote about a page on this but i blocked cookies from this website accidentally and lost it all so im not in the mood to write it again

basicly cutting the story short.

wich model is better and why

also which would be better for playing music? sound quality and volume?

any help is much appreciated

thanks

Another Nokia Nseries smartphone! And this one is the most technically advanced ever! Can it really live up to the hype, or will it prove to be as unreliable and bug-ridden as some of Nokia's other Nseries phones?
The headline features of the eagerly-awaited Nokia N95 are mouth-wateringly amazing:

• Built-in GPS navigation
• 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss & Tessar optics
• Wi-Fi wireless internet connection
• 2.6 inch display with 16 million colours
• Ultra-fast HSDPA data transfer

Let's start with the basics. The Nokia N95 is a 3G smartphone built on the Series 60 Symbian interface (version 3.1). Let's be clear from the start that these types of phone are slow, have a tendency to freeze or shut down, and have unstable firmware. They are also large and heavy. At 120g the N95 is of average weight for a smartphone, but is pretty bulky, despite its slide design. At least you won't forget which pocket it's in! When closed, you can access menu functions using the 5-way navigation key and the associated control keys. The N95 also has several other dedicated media keys that can be used as shortcuts to media functions. This is a good feature if you like to have lots of buttons to push, but sometimes they just end up getting in the way. When you slide the phone open you have access to a full keypad, but like the Nokia N73, the buttons are too small to be really comfortable. The user interface will be familiar to anyone who has used a Series 60 phone before: it's not as simple to use as the Nokias of olden days, but you wouldn't expect such a high powered device to be, would you? So, without getting into the functionality of the phone yet, we'd give it 2 stars for usability.
Now, the kind of person likely to buy this phone isn't going to be put off by wimpy considerations like size and ergonomics. Perhaps not even by warnings of bugs and a sluggish user interface. It's what the phone does that matters most. And this is where the N95 really delivers! The first multimedia feature that you encounter is the screen, and it's a massive one: 2.6 inches across, 240 x 320 pixels, and an incredible 16 million colours. An ambient light detector is used to control the brightness of the screen, making it usable under most lighting conditions. It's one of the best screens ever, and does full justice to the camera and navigation systems.
The camera is a first in the UK: the first phone camera to hit the 5 megapixel mark. At this number of pixels, you can (theoretically) match anything that a dedicated digital camera is capable of - provided that you have the optics to back up the megapixel grunt. Nokia have been developing their camera capabilities quite impressively recently using Carl-Zeiss optics and Tessar lenses - the Nokia N93 being the best camera phone before the release of the N95. The N95 lacks the optical zoom of the N93, but retains the autofocus, flash and lens. Does the 5 megapixel sensor make up for the lack of an optical zoom? The answer is no, so in our opinion the N93 is still king of the camera phones, but for practical purposes the N95 is a better option. It can certainly match or beat the Sony Ericsson K800i. The video camera is also outstanding, recording in VGA resolution (640 x 480 pixels) at up to 30 frames per second with stereo audio. There's a second front-facing camera for making video calls too.
The other most interesting feature of the N95 is the built-in GPS navigation system. The N95 actually has a GPS system built into the phone, that communicates directly with the satellite. This enables you to use the phone to track your position either on foot or in-car. You'll need to buy a license to use the Nokia mapping system though. Now, whilst this is a nice feature to have in a phone, we've got to say that it doesn't match the quality of a dedicated satnav system like the TomTom One. The sensitivity and reliability of the GPS receiver is not as good, and neither is the user-friendliness of the system.
These are the most groundbreaking features, but the N95 has almost everything else you could think of including in a phone too: a music player with support for all common music formats, a stereo FM radio, integrated handsfree speaker, speaker independent voice dialling, talking ringtones, HSDPA (the fast data transfer technology dubbed "3.5G") and lots more! When it comes to connectivity, the N95 is the best-connected device in town, with support for Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, Infrared, Wireless LAN, TV-Out and a 3.5 mm headphone jack. Its memory is also more than adequate with up to 160 Mbytes of onboard memory and support for microSD memory cards (up to 8 Gbytes). Battery life is OK - when you consider how much work has to be done to power this beast, you can't really set your expectations too high.

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The C902 is the first in a brand new range of Sony Ericsson phones: "C" for Cyber-Shot™. Previously all Cyber-Shot phones were part of the "K" series, and the C902 is the replacement for the Sony Ericsson K850i. The Cyber-Shot phones have been enormously successful over the past few years, but we felt that SE had made a few mistakes in recent models with dodgy keypads and unreliable firmware. It looked like SE had hit a rough patch, so let's hope that with the C series they can leave all that behind and move on to greater things. The C902 is the flagship Cyber-Shot model, and so our expectations are high.
Physically, the C902 seems to be back to the old Sony Ericsson style at its best. It's a classic-style handset, but ultra-slim at just 10.5mm. The keypad is a good old-fashioned one that has good-size square keys giving tactile feedback and enabling fast texting. Hooray! We're also delighted to find a 5-way navigation pad that just works. Looks like SE have learned some hard lessons about keypads and have gone back to a design that works. It feels like a quality handset too, with a combination of metal and plastic, and an elegant finish. It's available in a choice of Black or Red, and both colour schemes look very nice indeed.
The screen is slightly smaller than the K850i's. This is because of the touch-sensitive shortcuts added to both sides of the screen. These are used to activate the camera and switch between still and video. They can also change the autofocus mode, flash and other camera settings. We have to say that these work really well in our view. As camera phones become more and more sophisticated, accessing the functionality from a phone becomes more of a challenge for the user (it's not a dedicated digital camera after all.) The C902 shortcuts are an excellent solution to this problem and give the user a lot more control over the camera settings than most other camera phones. It's a shame that the display size has been reduced to make way for the shortcuts, but at least the screen has the same high resolution as previous Cyber-Shots (240 x 320 pixels). It's a bright and sharp display that works well in most lighting conditions.
Let's take a peek at the camera next. The camera is actually concealed beneath a mini sliding cover. When you slide the cover open, the phone switches to camera mode. The camera is a 5 megapixel beast with autofocus, image stabiliser and flash. The camera quality is very similar to that of the K850i. The autofocus uses face-detection software, so it will automatically focus on a face in a picture. The image stabiliser software we're less convinced about, but it may help to avoid camera blur in low lighting. The camera also has the BestPic™ feature which can automatically take nine photos in a second, so that you can then choose which one to keep. An Accelerometer feature senses which way up the phone is being held, and will automatically rotate your pictures into portrait or landscape mode. The main difference between the camera in the K850i and the C902 is that there is no Xenon flash in the C902. A Xenon flash is more powerful than a regular LED flash, however SE had a lot of problems with the Xenon flash on the K850i, so at least we can be confident that they have chosen a safe option for the new C902. The LED flash used for the C902 is more powerful than a standard one, and should give good results. Video recording is also comparable with the best of the K series phones, and video calling is available too, on a 3G network. A new "Storyteller" application lets you create presentations from pictures and show them on Facebook and other social networking sites.
Although its a Cyber-Shot phone, the C902 has great music capabilities too. The media player is fully featured, with support for album art. Sony's MegaBass™ ensures that you get rich sounds out of the small speaker. The PlayNow™ feature lets you personalise your phone by downloading an MP3 ringtone (you have to pay for downloads, however.) MP3 and AC ringtones are supported. TrackID™ can identify a song from a few seconds recording. An FM radio with RDS is also included. You can plug in a stereo headphone, or use an optional Bluetooth stereo headset. One thing that we really like is the large amount of built-in memory available - at 160 Mbytes this is big increase on what's available in the K850i, and makes it much easier to manage files. The phone supports Memory Stick Micro™ (M2™) cards up to 4 GB, which is enough to store 1,000 music tracks. For some reason though, there's no support for microSD cards.
Connectivity is very good, with support for Bluetooth and USB. The USB connection enables the phone to act as a USB mass storage device, so moving music and images between phone and PC is drag-and-drop simplicity itself. As already mentioned, this is a 3G phone, with HSDPA support enabling an "always-on" internet connection with download speeds of up to 3.6 Mbps - comparable with a home broadband connection. As well as being 3G, it's a quadband GSM phone, so should be usable anywhere in the world.
Battery life is adequate, but ultraslim phones tend to have shorter battery lives than conventional phones, which isn't surprising. The smaller screen size does help to reduce power consumption, and we don't think that the battery life will be an issue for most users.
We had hoped that the C902 would be free of bugs, but a number of users have reported problems with the phone freezing or crashing occasionally. It seems that Sony Ericsson still need to improve the reliability of their firmware. We hope that firmware updates will sort out these problems soon. Despite this, we really like the C902. Although it lacks a Xenon flash, we feel that its a much better all-rounder than the K850i, and is probably Sony Ericsson's best camera phone so far. It can probably match the Nokia N95 too, especially in good lighting conditions.

Personally im a Nokia fan so my choice would be easy !

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well i am swayed to the N95 (i forgot to mention it was the 8GB one)

but can anyone give me advice on which is more reliable, less likely to break, battery life etc

and being a huge music fan which would have better sound quality and volume?

thanks for the help above also

I personally own a Nokia N95 8GB version. The battery life is, as most people would tell you...pants! It can last as long as 1 day to 3 days.

Like most phones, battery life is dependent on how much you use it and what functions/applications you have turned on. I personally use my phone for watching TV series that I convert on my computer to a ipod format which works on the N95 (If anyone has any better optimising settings for converting, give me a shout). On top of that, like yourself, I use it for listening to music which I must say, the sound is suberb. Play the occasional game which you can find in various places on the web and because I'm with the 3 network, I get Live Messenger as part of the contract, free...so I can chat to anyone on my MSN whenever, wherever (ofc, sucks using a keypad as oppose to a keyboard)...though this service can be used on the C902 as well.

I've not used the C902 personally...but from submitted pictures, I'd say it takes slightly better quality pictures as oppose to the N95.

Can I ask why you're not inclined to choosing the Walkman series from Sony Ericsson if you're such a music buff...or do you prefer a wider choice of entertainment? (Which is the reason I chose a N95 over the C902)

Edit: In terms of battery life, it'll last long if you turn off the functions such as applications you have running and especially, the Bluetooth/Wi-Fi scanning. If you were playing a movie or music, make sure you've turned the applications off and it can last a fair bit longer.

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thanks alot well i orderd the N95 8gb

it has a wider range of features as you say with evrything else matching the c902, the camera being slightly worse but on the plus the 3.5mm headfone jack was a real advantage, aswell as the screen size and the 8gb built in memory.

should be here in a few days

thanks alot again

hello thank you all