I got myself a Nokia N95 a short while ago. A truly impressive telephone, especially the camera: I will probably never buy a dedicated digital camera again! And with the combination built-in GPS plus high-speed connectivity (3G, HSDPA, WLAN) it is a nice platform for NavXS.

I must admit that I am a bit disappointed by the built-in GPS receiver though, which is hardly better than the one in my almost 2 years old Siemens SXG-75. To be fair, it does have slightly better accuracy and does not jump around so much as the SXG, but I expect this is more due to the Siemens guys not finding the time to add a little software filtering. The time to get a fix is just as long for the N95 as the SXG, if not longer. Hopefully future firmware updates can bring improvements (through better handling of almanac data perhaps). Another advantage of the SXG, from a developer's point of view, was that it had much more relaxed security implementations, allowing the user to grant untrusted MIDlets file system access for an entire session, rather than just one-shot access. Having to grant explicit rights to each single read or write, makes caching of map tiles to the file system in the N95 (and other Nokias) a real pain! But then again, this is a good incentive to make an “official” release of a signed, trusted NavXS MIDlet.

But all in all: The N95 is a kick-ass phone :-)