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Nokia N95

2007 smartphone model

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ223895
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The Nokia N95 and Nokia N95 8GB are high-end mobile phones produced by Nokia as part of their former Nseries line of multimedia mobile devices. Announced in September 2006, it was released to the market in March 2007. The N95 runs S60 3rd Edition (Feature Pack 1), on Symbian OS v9.2. It has a two-way sliding mechanism, which can be used to access either media playback buttons or a numeric keypad. It was first released in silver and later on in black, with limited edition quantities in gold and purple. The launch price of the N95 was around €550 or US$730 (€820/US$1,105 in 2025 adjusted for inflation).

The Nokia N95 was a high-end model that was marketed as a "multimedia computer", much like other Nseries devices. It featured a then-high 5 megapixel resolution digital camera with Carl Zeiss optics and with a flash, as well as a then-large display measuring 2.6 inches. It was also Nokia's first phone with a built-in Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver, used for maps or turn-by-turn navigation, and their first with an accelerometer. It was also one of the earliest devices in the market supporting HSDPA (3.5G) signals.

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