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As Rogers becomes the first carrier in North America to sell Nokia’s flagship N95, it is time to look at what has already been said about this super device. Nokia insists it is a computer, but we’ll settle for a pretty-smart phone.

CNET (7 out of 10): they like the fact that it is a feature packed phone, but dings it for poor standby battery life, sluggish performance and flimsy sliding mechanism.

Gizmodo: GPS and great quality 5 megapixel camera make this device stand out from the competition, but once again battery life and laggy performance are major turn-offs.

GSM Arena: they call N95 "crown of the entire Nokia portfolio" however they recommend you turn off 3G, Wi-Fi and GPS unless you want to charge the device twice a day.

Mobile Burn: this powerhouse smartphone is recommended for its amazing feature set, but they characterized the stand-by batter life as "horrible"

My-Symbian: N95 is a "great looking phone and a great performer" and suggests you go and get it.

If you want a feature-packed phone, there is no other device like it on Rogers lineup. With internal memory of 8GB, 5.0 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, 3G HSDPA network access, Bluetooth, 802.11g, and even built-in GPS will ensure your phone will have something for everyone.

Priced at $399.99 (after mail-in rebate), it is also the priciest phone available at Rogers. Only recommended for hard-core users that need everything (and more) in their phones.

Nokia’s new flagship phone will be, as rumored before, N96. This upgrade of N95 features 16GB internal storage, microSD slot, 5 megapixel camera, integrated stereo speakers, WiFi, Bluetooth, and even built-in DVB-H tuner for mobile video action. Look for this phone to launch in Q3 of 2008 for about 550 euros.

Nokia’s not-really-a-phone tablet device N810 is finally available in Canada. You can now visit Nokia internet store and pay $485 for the device. Here’s a quick list of specs for those who already forgot what this device is capable of doing:

• High-resolution 4.13” WVGA display (800 x 480 pixels) with up to 65,000 colours
• TI OMAP 2420, 400Mhz
• DDR RAM 128MB, Flash 256MB
• Up to 2GB internal memory
• Support for compatible miniSD and microSD memory cards up to 8GB.
• Supported audio formats: MP3, WMA, AAC, AMR, AWB, M4A, MP2, RA (RealAudio), WAV
• Supported video formats: 3GP, AVI, WMV, MP4, H263, H.264, MPEG-1, MPEG-4, RV (RealVideo)
• Supported Image formats: BMP, GIF, ICI, JPE, JPEG, PNG, TIF/TIFF, SVG, Tiny, WBMP
• Map application with pre-loaded maps including points of interest
• Built-in keyboard, full screen finger keyboard and on-screen keyboard

[Visit Nokia Internet store]

You can now run Palm OS Garnet VM on N-series tablets (such as N770, N800 and the upcoming N810) by using Garnet Virtual Machine Software. The best news is the virtualization software is available for free: it is still in the beta stage right now, but Access is promising it will remain free when the final version hits the streets at the end of this year.

Here’s a video demo of how it works, courtesy of TabletBlog: