The Nokia N95-1 was truly a marvelous accomplishment that was unrivaled at the time, and remains strong even now, a year and a half later. It was the most talked about S60 smartphone, the most ambitious juggernaut Nokia cleverly named 'multimedia computer'.
So it wasn't long before Nokia, in front of the huge success, spawned several updated versions of the smartphone.
One of them was N95-2, yet another ambitious Nokia phone, but the word 'update' makes me kind of scratch my head. I'm well aware most of you already know everything about the N95-2 so I won't do the usual review here. Instead, I'll write my own impressions of the N95-2 through comparisons to the N95-1, it's older brother.
I've also included pics with some noteworthy views of the phone. Enjoy!
PROS:
Increased Ram does make the difference. And the difference is around 50 mb, which greatly helps at improving the phone usability at certain things. Mostly I notice the difference when surfing with the Safari browser: I haven't experienced even a single memory low warning, also the browser almost never crashed. Other thing I noticed is the gallery produces picture thumbnails faster, but, other than the mentioned things, it feels pretty the same like the original N95 with the demand paging implemented in the newer fws. 
8Gb memory is sufficient for most of the needs, if you don't take the term ''multimedia computer'' too serious that is. At least I haven't managed to fill it up. I was downloading podcasts extensively, without deleting any older ones, stored converted videos without taking their size into account, music etc. While it's still possible to fill up the memory and it can't be increased, the 8GB of stored space still delivers a certain degree of freedom for some time being. And when 8GB finally starts to feel cramped, you'll long be on a newer device.
The back cover blends even better now with the rest of the phone's classic, yet stylish design, and feels in hand more coherent with the rest of the phone (although the color pallet can be noticed a tone different than the upper part, which is darker).
The 3.5 mm audio jack is placed the same place as on the N95-1. Why is it a positive thing? Think how awkward it would be to have earphones plugged in while using the multimedia buttons. I really doubt the usefulness of audio jack top placement on the newer Nokia double sliders.
Thanks to the clever design of the audio jack (see pic abowe), it's possible to place the phone on it's side, and enjoy some videos. Isn't it a good thing ?!
The music keys are extruded now, and compared to the N95-1, their usability is really improved, allowing to press the right key without looking at them. After using the phone some time, I realized I'm using the music keys more often than I did with the N95-1.
The numeric keypad remains the same, but it's hard to say it's a bad thing. They could've had a bit more spacing between them, but I consider them to be good enough.
The menu and multimedia keys are another excellent improvement over the older one's. Even though they're smaller (about 1/2 their original size), they are slightly extruded rather than totally flat, and therefore more easily to operate with.
The new design of the phone also means that the old problems with the 'c' and 'pencil' keys are partially resolved here too. It's a lot harder now to accidentally press the red or 'End' key when using the 'c' key. They could have been a bit bigger though.
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