The Apple iPhone may be getting all the fanboy attention, but the upcoming Nokia 95, due sometime in March, is the handset that ‘real’ smartphone users are waiting for. The specifications on this handset are simply stunning, and so I wanted to see how much the phone lived up to the brochureware in the flesh. The answer is that at first glance it’s a genuinely neat little package. It certainly doesn’t break any ground in terms of design, but the whole thing fits nicely into the hand, and the usability is straight down the line Symbian OS easy, so no surprises there.

Just to remind you – we’re talking a 5 megapixel camera with – crucially – a Carl Zeiss lens. HSDPA genuine fast mobile broadband, Bluetooth, USB 2.0, WiFi, UPnP for super connectivity, a 2.6 QVGA screen and A-GPS for navigational loveliness. The camera has a flash and red-eye reduction and there’s 160 MB of internal memory and a MicroSD slot for up to 2 GB of external memory. This is a handset that will take no prisoners specification wise. One thing that stuck out too is the great layout of the camera buttons. Once you turn the thing on its side to act as a camera, the shutter and preview buttons fall to hand exactly where you’d expect them to be on a camera. They really intend to make this as much of a camera as a phone. More