Nokia's N95: The cure for iPhone envy

It's the Nokia N95.
As a member of the Nokia bloggers program, I've had fun over the past year testing out the latest cool toys that the Finnish company has dangled in the U.S. marketplace. Liked the N91 and N70. Found the N73 and N80 handy. Loved the N93 and N90. But I adore the N95, which sets a new standard for gotta-have-it mobile eye candy and rockin' features, even if its interface still needs work.
In the Silicon Valley circles I run in these days, I've begun spotting the N95 with increasing frequency. Dan Gillmor has one. So do videobloggers Andrew Baron of Rocketboom in New York and Steve Garfield of Boston.
I decided to pass on the iPhone because the N95 and my MacBook Pro meet my mobile wireless needs (for now), so I can't do a true side-by-side comparison. But here is how their features stack up:
Phone features
Nokia N95: You have a full choice of carriers, and the N95 supports 3G, which is a huge advantage over AT&T's Edge. The device is smaller and lighter than an iPhone (4.2 oz. to the iPhone's 4.8 oz.) and conveniently slips into a shirt pocket.
iPhone: You're locked into AT&T and its pokey Edge service for two years, a poor experience for downloading multimedia files. And it takes four to six steps to place a simple phone call.
Multimedia
Nokia N95: The N95 is helping to usher in an age of citizen media, with video captured in MPEG-4 at a big, fat 640 x 480 pixels. These videos look good! Here's my interview (taped indoors) with attorney Colette Vogele, done on an N95. It also takes good photos, especially outdoors, in 5 megapixels up to 2592 x 1944 pixels.
iPhone: You can watch video on its luscious 3.5-inch screen in glorious H.264 MPEG-4. But you can't shoot video. You can, however, take pictures with its 2-megapixel camera.