I took a short trip down Nokia lane today in pondering purchasing an N95.  As some of you who have read my About page, I already have an AT&T Tilt (HTC TyTN II) which is a very powerful device that I’m very happy with.

However, something with the UNIX-ness of Symbian made me want to try it out again but, after closer inspection, I remember why, after literally countless hours of studying and deciding, I chose the Tilt.

The big reason was the QWERTY keyboard.  I hate button mashing and lacking a hardware keyboard, I turn to my Tilt.

I also noticed that the Nokia uses a lesser chipset as well.  Only 332Mhz (for the primary processor at least, I couldn’t find details about the secondary processor) as opposed to the Tilt’s 400Mhz dual core processor (one 400Mhz primary ARM11 processor and a secondary ARM9 processor running slower to process radio interactions and such).  Correct me if I’m wrong though.

Another thing I noticed was it’s significantly smaller battery, 950mAH versus the Tilt’s 1350mAH.  Maybe the N95 has better power management than the energy sucking Ford-F450-of-chipsets that is the Qualcomm MSM7200 that the Tilt uses, but it seems as if it would have bad battery life as there really aren’t any 3G chipsets with a good track record.

Don’t get me wrong though, I respect the N95 and pretty much any Nokia smartphone to an infinite degree more than an Apple iPhone, I also find the Nokia fanboys much easier to get along with.  The N95 also has a couple of ups over the Tilt, namely the 5mp digital camera complete with Carl Zeiss optics, and more camera related features.  However it seems as if this (the camera), and possibly media (but the Tilt does a great job with media as well), seem to be the only areas where the N95 stands out above the Tilt.

Either way though, the N95 is an impressive device, but the Tilt is just that much more loaded with features.