You just have to check out this video — the LEGO Midstorm NXT robot solves the Rubik’s cube using a java based app programmed into the Nokia N95. The N95 captures photos of the color patterns from the cube’s many sides and instructs the robot to solve it!

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In this issue of FlashBack Friday, we look back one year ago to the launch of the Nokia N95.

A year ago I wrote the following about the Nokia N95:

The N95 is one of those gadgets that will help tip the point into a seamless mobile data accessibility, whether through HSDPA or WiFi or through simpler functions like push email. Truth be told, with consumers willing to shell out the same amount of money they would have spent for a laptop – for a mobile phone, it does say something about the value proposition of a smaller device.

One year ago, we had mobile phones that weren’t Windows Mobile smartphones skyrocketing in price to bring home the idea of everything in your pocket. There are two paradigms to this reality. Either the phones get to do more things, or the laptops become smaller and more affordable. And from the looks of it, the latter seems to be the viable option. With Intel introducing the Atom chips, the dawn of the ultra light notebook beckons. Though it is true that the new phones can approximate the practicality of the laptop, for some reason the mindset of consumers is that phones should still be used for making calls, primarily.

What do you think, dear readers? There seems to be a sweet spot somewhere but maybe manufacturers are too scared to face the bitter reality (pun intended) of the new market.

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A step up from the Nokia N95, the N96 comes packed with more memory that makes the N95 8GB look half as good. The N96 comes packed with 16GB of internal memory. One of the complaints from the N95 8GB was that the 3.5mm socket was located in an odd place. The new N96 fixes this problem by putting the socket on the top of the unit. Another huge plus is a stand which you can kick out to make the N96 hold itself upright when you’re watching those long movies. Cool.

So what was the 8GB N95 all about? I guess it was a market filler for what was to come in the next few months. There was around more than half a year delay between the N95 and the N96 and in between that we must remember that Nokia revealed their new Ovi interface. The 8GB device was definitely a filler.

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The LifeBlog application of Nokia has a tweak which all Wordpress users may want to grab. Colbert Low talks about how his Nokia N95 is now a mobile wordpress platform using the Wordpres blog posting plugin. This is definitely a boon for consumers who saw the power of the LifeBlog app but just found it useless as they would have to reinvent the wheel once more by starting a Nokia-supported blog.

This link downloads the plugin.

You can check out the plugin at the SMS Guide along with additional information on how to install it.

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