You Get Some, You Lose Some...

The N95 8GB has some amazing features but their are plenty of shortcomings that the phone has.

The Locking mechanism is frustrating, the hardware switch on the N81 8GB works well and can lock and unlock at any time. The N95 8GB locks automatically when the slider is closed and there is nothing you can do about it

The N95 8GB is also sluggish in the menus when compared to the N81 8GB, even with the higher amount of RAM and other optimisations (Demand Paging, etc) it seems the 30Mhz or so it's missing makes up a surprising percentage of the performance

You do "Get Some" though

The Graphics Accelerator aids with all sorts of things, Games are obvious, as are obvious improvements in Video Playback and TV-OUT but there are unexpected improvements such as much smoother playback of visualisations which are surprisingly slow on the N81 8GB

But the phrase in the heading is most true for the headphone jack, while it is really convenient while playing games in landscape it is a horrible place to use for a pocket as it will stop the phone from fitting in phone pockets