I’ve not played with an N73, but I’ve heard of troubles. Using the N95 with my Mac has been seamless, though.

That pan and zoom thing in the iPhone’s Safari? Yeah, the N95 does that too. The built in web browser is built around WebKit (the core of Safari) on S60 3rd. Even the UserAgent string the browser reports says it’s Safari.

The music player on the N95 is very fast actually, and there’s actually no benefit to having an iPod over it, unless you’re going for the huge 80gb/160gb iPod Classics for the storage space. It plays Windows Media files (not that I ever really use them). It also plays more video formats than the iPod can.

As for the indestructible side of things, that’s quite interesting, and a good selling point. If you consider that most “hardened” phones/computers/whatever are reasonably low spec, the iPhone could do well in that market. If it wasn’t so damned expensive…

Ever flicked photos with your thumb?

About the keyboard – I bet you $1000 that I can type faster on the iPhone than you on the N95. Not without looking – granted! – but I type at about 50% my computer typing speed now on the iPhone after getting used to it. And I am very fast on the computer.

I had an N73 before and the N95 is supposed to be better – thankfully as the N73 was a total piece of junk. Even though it was a “music edition” and could surf the web I never:
- Surfed the web on the Nokia – it was better than previous efforts, but still retarded
- Played music on the Nokia – a horrible experience if ever there was one. The nokia sync software crashed the first time I tried to upload an album and it went downhill from there.

Both those things work brilliantly on the iPhone and I am often using it as a soft of internet tablet. How can you surf the internet without being able to instantly pan and zoom? There is no going back. The Nokia web browsing experience is a total joke, doesn’t compare.
They were not kidding, it’s the best iPod ever. Showing off the pictures in my albums has never been that much fun either (on the N73 you had to wait 10 seconds for the album app to even appear….

Another thing I kind of like that rarely gets mentioned: The iPhone is indestructible. It doesn’t scratch because it has a glass screen. The rest is steel. Pit that piece of plastic N95 against an iPhone in a high velocity crash and see what happens! :)

I too was a K800i fan for the last 2 years odd and have never owned a Nokia till the N95. the K800 is no my back up phone for when I forget to turn off the GPS and end up with a dead phone.

S60v3 is awesome. I love how it is open to development on a larger scale than the SE OS, I really liked my K800i but I LOVE the N95-1 that I have. Needs more than a gig though to be useful as a music player though in my opinion. the HSPDA speed here in Australia is awesome and I use most of my 1GB/month doing all sorts of things..

I also found the Video Manager software that will convert ANYTHING pretty much into the N95 and have been DL’dg and converting everything I would normal watch on my PC at home then watching it on buses etc.

The N95 has changed the way i communicate and I am suprised at how little phone calls I do now with Fring etc installed.

I too was attracted to the iPhone as I own a bluey G3/500 etc at home and like OSX but was really really really disappointed in the iPhone. it was slow, dumb and dodgy photos. like others have said, no contest..

Cheers
Chris.