Nokia N95/N96: Still the Best SmartPhone of All

All of this 'hype' about the iPhone, G1, yada yada has just about reached a high crescendo.  It's just so silly.  They don't shine a candle to the Nokia N-series N95/N96.

There are still some N95s in the product channel but the newest is the N96.  You don't have a touch screen (horrors) or a keyboard (OMG), but it does do a lot.  Here's some of the things I do with it:

• Sync your Evolution, Outlook, etc calendar, contacts, tasks with PC Suite (USB, Bluetooth)
  
• Push IMAP email (Consilient)
• Open more than one application at a time (no can do with iPhone)
• Run Java applications (no can do with iPhone)
• Use your N95 as a SIP-VoIP phone (e.g. with Skype, fring, TruPhone, SIPphone, Gizmo5, Asterisk)
• USB 2.0 data connection
• Bluetooth connectivity (OBEX, DUND, Keyboard, Headset, Multimedia)
• 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi
• InfraRed connectivity
• 5 Megapixel Carl Zeiss Optics Camera
• VGA Movie Camera (Play/Record)
• Windows Remote Desktop (Using RDM+)
• Virtual Network Connection (VNC)
• Secure Shell (Putty)
• Create your own 'hot spot' (Ad. Hoc with Joikuspot)
• MicroSDHC hot swapable drive (8Gig)
• Nokia Maps 2.0 (Entire US off-line map stored on MicroSD drive with Voice turn-by-turn Drive/Walk directions)
• GPS Navigation with Nokia Maps, Google Maps
  
• Great Browser (using Apple WebKit), but you can install Opera or Opera Mini (free)
  
• Accelerometer (works great with RotateMe portrait/landscape and Step Counter--pedometer)
• Tether your Laptop for Internet access via bluetooth (EDGE, 3G speeds with a data plan)
• Rip TV/full length Movies to MPEG-4/DivX and watch (TI OMAP ARM11 supports 25 fps)
• Voice activated commands
• Sound Recorder (including phone calls)
• FM Radio Reciever
• Internet Radio (Visual Radio, Nokia Radio)
• Podcasting (Create/Play)
• MP3 Music Player
• Stereo Speakers
• TV Infrared remote control (Psiloc--very important for Men)
  
• Stereo Mic/Headset connection
• TV-out connect and view pics/play movies on your external display
• DivX Movie Player
• Adobe Flash Lite
  
• Youtube Player
• Apache Webserver (Nokia Web Server)
• Replaceable/Rechargable battery (try that on the iPhone)
• Barcode Reader
• Adobe PDF Reader
• Quick Office (Word Excel document support)
• Bluetooth keyboard
• Zip Archive support
• Over the air install of Nokia SISX applications
• Gmail and Google Apps Mail binary applications for Nokia
• N-Gage Games
• SMS/Multimedia/Email messaging

Ok, I think I hit oil so I'll stop drilling. :)