12 hours with Rogers N95 8GB NAM - Get an unlocked one instead!

Submitted by Roland on Sun, 2008-06-01 21:19

After 12 hours with a borrowed Rogers N95 8GB NAM, my conclusion is still to get an unlocked one!

In short, the Rogers N95 8GB NAM is:

  1. The Multimedia creator phone that N series users the world over have learned to love. Great camera and great video!
  2. The S60 interface we have come to love/hate which is hard to use as all N series aficionados know.
  3. Rogers has put their bogus "deck" in the web browser and Vision software on their version of N95 8GB NAM and it's just as suspected, unusable and totally superfluous. Change the home page and don't use the Vision app; none of it's any good!
  4. It's the Rogers Data plan that we have all come to love. Danny who set up the phone, was told by a Rogers CSR he could get a 1GB data plan for $100/month which contradicts the $65/month 1GB PC Card plan that Alec Saunders got from Rogers. Inconsistencies 'r Rogers! Or is it a deliberate attempt to confuse customers by telling different customers different stories about data plans?

My conclusion remains the same: get an unlocked N95 8GB NAM and a $65/month PC Card plan. You'll be a lot less frustrated!

Some more details after the jump

  1. Memory Full when running Fring. Ah S60 memory manaegement, this shouldn't happen ever!
  2. Fit and Finish seem much better than my N95-1
  3. Doesn't seem crippled in any way in terms of adding apps or wifi
  4. Lots of access points: GoRogers, Media, Rogers Internet, Streaming - I am sure this confuses customers to no end!
  5. 3G *is* much faster (no surprise) but slower than WiFi
  6. Rogers "Home Page" aka "deck" is aweful as I expected; give me the internet
  7. App Manager Shows:
    1. Music Player
    2. Fring (only app installed by the customer of this phone)
    3. Fifa07 Demo
    4. APSServer v2
    5. Google Search
    6. Asphalt3
    7. Google Maps
    8. Block Breaker Del
    9. Wheel of Fortune
    10. Mail by Google
    11. Midnight Pool
    12. Gmail
    13. WPT Hold Em
    14. Mobile email
    15. Rogers on Demand
    16. YouTube
    17. Street Fighter
    18. Mobile TV
    19. Vision App

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Comments

Alec Saunders (not verified)

Mon, 2008-06-02 07:01

Roland,

Rogers jacked the price up after they gave me the $65/month deal.  I spoke to a CSR last week about activating another phone, and was told the $65 was no longer available.

Roland

Mon, 2008-06-02 10:53

sanity in pricing will prevail ... eventually, thanks alec !

Antony Pranata (not verified)

Thu, 2008-06-05 09:16

The whole idea of "locking the phone" just s****.

Btw, is WiFi disabled on N95 Rogers variant? I hope not.

Roland

Sun, 2008-06-08 00:07

surprisingly WiF is not disabled on the Rogers N95 8GB NAM

Prav (not verified)

Thu, 2008-10-02 17:13

Hey,
Im new to the cellphone world that has features beyoind caller display, but i was recently offered the rogers n95 8gb from a friend, but im on the fido network. Is it possible to unlock the phone? and does that get rid of the horrible rogers software?
Thanks in advance

Roland

Mon, 2008-10-13 22:21

but of course that's a grey market thing which i have no experience with

JSL (not verified)

Fri, 2009-02-06 09:02

Voip is disabled on the n95 from rogers...

 if you have any knowlege using nemesis
change your product code to 0561948

that prod code is of an actual nokia bought N95-4 NAM RM-421
it is the unbranded n95 8gb from the nokia store in New York, its where i bought mine.

then run software update after you reboot your phone.

that will atleast unbrand it and give you full usage of your n95 8g. different story to fully unlock it.

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