Thursday, August 2, 2007

A few tips for the Nokia N95

Update - The Nokia N95 has now been officially launched. Check the real specs (we were close i think)
Spy shots
After doing some searching on the web I found these pictures of the rumored Nokia N95.
N83 or N95 ?
One site has called it the N83 but for us, its the N95.
Although, there is no official word yet from Nokia, phone freaks everywhere have there secret ways of getting leaked photos, so here are a few spy shots of the phone believed to be the N95 for your viewing pleasure.
Features
16.7 million color 352×416 pixels 2.5 inch screen
Double Slide feature
Music Player…Mp3/ACC
4gb internal memory!
Video Call Camera (front)
5 Megapixel Camera with Carl Ziess Optics
My Opinion
This phone should do great once released. For phone freaks like me its almost a dream come true. Big beautiful screen with lots of pixels, also the cool double sliding feature.
Another bonus is the mp3 player which is a plus for anyone who doesnt want to buy a simple ipod, which are boring!
Phones aren’t phones nowadays, and this phone is a great example, with the little information that has been leaked, I have been able to conjure up an opinion.
One thing I love on phones are speakers, there is no specified information on how many speakers there are on this phone but sit tight you fellow audiophiles.
Also, for you photographers, Nokia’s cellphone cameras are always excellent, and with the Carl Ziess Optics,its definitely a huge plus. Hopefully, there are stereo speakers as featured in the N73
So I've spent another day with the N95, and have a few tips to share.
First, I had to import some certificates into the phone to deal with some privately-signed secure services I run. I Googled for some info on this, and eventually found several quite convoluted ways to do this, including modifying MIME types on Web servers and browsing to a DER-encoded cert there, which seemed uniquely bizarre to me. I found a quick and easy way to do this, involving no Web servers or MIME types.
1) Convert the key to a DER format: openssl x509 -inform PEM -in ./cert.pem -outform DER -out cert.der, replacing cert.(derpem) with your actual certificate.2) Push the resulting .der file to the N95 with Bluetooth or USB and drop it somewhere on the phone's flash or memory card.3) Select it in the file manager, and it should install nicely.
If you're on a Mac, use the OS X Bluetooth "Send File..." command to simply throw the file at the N95. It will then automatically prompt for installation.
Another task was to enable the N95 to be used as a modem on my MacBook Pro. This was actually so straightforward I had to double check to make sure I was actually using the phone and not my WiFi. Just follow the instructions on the Nokia E61 blog and you're all set. Note that my GSM provider doesn't make use of a username/password combo, and leaving those blank worked fine. Oh, and the modem script should be dropped into /Library/Modem Scripts, not /System/Library/Modem Scripts.
I also found a nice tuner/metronome app from VITO Technology that combines a standard metronome and a tuner using the phone's microphone. Handy for the gigs where I don't even bring an amp and forget my tuner. Guitar players hate it when you borrow theirs to tune an upright, drummers are always making too much noise to hear the harmonics, and keyboard players don't bother.
I still can't get the builtin email application to send email via SMTP AUTH, which is very annoying, but I'm warming up to Profimail, and will probably wind up buying it when the trial period expires.

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