Only in the US

Mar 25, 2008 11:00 GMT  ·  By

The Red US version of Nokia N95 is now available via Amazon for the lowest price ever, so those mobile users who thought until now the Nseries flagship is a bit too expensive have the chance to buy it for the price of only 504.99 USD. I know, the title says exactly $500, but who cares about 5 bucks when we talk about almost $100 off?

The offer is only available for US residents (unfortunately for users who live in other countries) and will get them the high-end phone within a few days. Of course, if they have the above mentioned amount of money, if they like red and if they consider the phone to be worth it.

Released exactly one year ago (in March 2007), Nokia N95 has pretty much re-defined the concept of "high-end phone". The handset comes with a dual slider design and includes about all the features someone might want from a mobile phone ? or at least that was the case in 2007.

The US version of N95 measures 3.9 x 2.1 x 0.83 inches (99 x 53 x 21 mm), weighs 4.23 ounces (120 grams) and offers quad-band GSM and dual-band UMTS connectivity. It has a 240 x 320 pixels TFT display with 16 million colors support, a 5 Megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, flash, auto focus and VGA video recording at 30fps, a secondary video-call camera, EDGE, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS receiver, A-GPS function, built-in maps, TV out, Music player with support for MP3, WMA, AAC, AAC+ and eAAC, 3.5mm audio jack, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, miniUSB, WAP 2.0 and HTML browser, email capabilities, Instant Messaging, Java MIDP 2.0, document viewer and so on.

While Nokia N95 is obviously a very good handset, it is outperformed by its 8GB version released in October 2007. Pretty soon, other new phones will come to eclipse it, devices like the N96, expected to be released in August 2008, or Sony Ercissson's Xperia X1, which should hit the market at about the same time. Of course, these phones will have higher prices, so the N95 will still be able to attract mobile users from around the world.