The successor to the acclaimed N95, this new incarnation just got better all round. The navigational console has been completely revamped. The oblong buttons are easy to use, and the directional pad is much better than that on the N95. The extra chrome on the buttons could have been avoided, we think-it picks up finger smudges and is likely to peel off. The number keypad is well-laid-out, but the hard-touch keys, combined with the slightly raised surface, makes finger-pad touch-typing a pain. The music player is feature- rich-you can shuffle and repeat tracks,there’s a functional equaliser, and a visualization function too. Audio quality seems to have improved over the N95. Music quality is decent on the supplied earplugs, and this phone is just great with better earphones! Sony Ericssonstill rules the game with their Walkman series of phones, though. The 5MP camera is another first-great image quality and a good flash unit. However, like all cell phone cameras, the zoom is useless. The lens cover you see on the N95 has been dropped in this new incarnation-and that’s not something we approve of. Image quality is similar to that on the N95. The camera performs admirably outdoors; colour saturation is perfect, and so is the exposure.Indoors, in low-light conditions, the focus tends to hunt for a while, and tonal accuracy suffers as well. The phone comes with 160 MB of internal memory, which is well-supplemented by 8 GB of flash memory. No expansion is   available for memory cards, but it’s not required. There’s a fully-functional GPS application inbuilt. This works well in conjunction with a GPRS connection.WiFi (g) is inbuilt, as is the mandatory Bluetooth (version 2.0, now with A2DP), and the jurassic infrared. For the radio fan, the N95 8 GB Incorpo rates FM radio. The new N95 8GB comes with higher-capacity batteries that extend its life by two hours over the N95. With nominal use, we got around two days of battery (45 minutes of talking, 2 hours of listening  to music, and intermittent GPRS use). In conclusion, the Nokia N95 8 GB is a superb convergent device. Be it music, camera, GPS, or Internet connectivity, it just does everything better than most devices on the market.