The Verge: For its era, what was the greatest smartphone of all time?

There wasn’t anything average about the Nokia N95. The average smartphone didn’t combine everything that the N95 did into one device, nor did other smartphones do what the N95 could do as well. Other smartphones may have had a camera, may have played music, may have a web browser but it wasn’t like the complete package that the N95 provided.

Chris’s article reminds me of one that I wrote about the mindset that smartphone users that missed out on the Symbian ruled smartphone era and how their view of Nokia, Symbian and Symbian devices is drastically different. In that article I wrote:

I have also noticed that almost ALL of the internet trolls that bash Nokia at every opportunity, never experienced Nokia when they were #1 in almost everything. Most trolls have started using smartphones in the last few years, most even well after the iPhone, HTC G1 and Nokia N97 and they simply don’t have an OUNCE of love in their heart for Nokia. They also cannot relate, remember or have any experience with the iPhone when it didn’t have an App Store at all, when it couldn’t do Copy and Paste, could NOT send a MMS and when Android phones had screens with only 65k colors, could NOT record Video AT ALL and the best games on Android Market were games such as Tic-Tac-Toe…..made by an unknown developer..usually by 1 guy or girl…..with crude 2D graphics and 8-bit mono sound.

They never experienced any of the great things that WERE (not just could be) done at the remarkable high level of quality that Nokia provided in the SAME POINT IN HISTORY. By the time many of the current smartphone users got into the Smartphone arena, it was Nokia that was battling for 2nd in many, most and sometimes ALL areas. So, they have no love for Nokia. I understand that. Nokia never earned their Love nor their respect (especially with the media’s blasting around the same time they began using smartphones)

I don’t think RaLX is trolling with his comment, he Some users don’t have the same experience as Chris or that some of have and without that experience, they won’t have the same admiration for Nokia or their devices from that era and that is ok.  My paragraph above really rings true to any user (not just trolls) that never experienced Nokia’s devices and services in the early days of smartphones where Nokia commanded over 70% of the global smartphone market and made the most advanced devices and provided the best user experiences as Chris mentioned. For some, the iPhone or Galaxy S was their entry into smartphones and that is all they knew and loved.

The best smartphone of the N95 era for me was the Nokia N82 as the Xenon flash was the deciding factor for me. It was a little over 2 years ago that I took a stroll down memory lane about the Nokia N82 and my sentiments echoed what Chris mentioned in his article on the Verge:

In this day and age of superphones, HD screens, Quad and Dual-Core CPUs, millions of polygons per second GPUs, unibody construction, 5+inch screens and 41MP monster cameras and nearly a million apps across OSes, I almost wonder how did we make it in the “dark ages” of mobile technology a few years ago.

…I remembered why I loved Nokia in the first place, because they created a device that at the time was like no other device before it. A delicious soup of memorable experiences with LASTING photo quality that impresses to this day.

Chris begins to close out his article with this comment about the N95:

Basically, it trounced everything in those heady pre-iPhone days.

Just as Chris asked, what phone do you hold head and shoulders beyond every other that was ever released? It doesn’t have to be a Nokia device or even a Symbian device, we would like to hear your thoughts and your story. Taking it a step further if I may, what device do you now hold head and shoulders above anything released thus far in this era? What is your opinion?

Thank you for continuing to support MyNokiaBlog and have a great day,

Demitrius Harris

Source: The Verge

Thanks goes to Alvester for the tip!