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Yes! I took 41 photos in about 30 minutes with the N95-1 with V 20.0.0.015 firmware and the N95-1 appeared to pass the Roland Shozu Challenge i.e. the phone didn't crash, the camera app didn't crash and ShoZu uploaded the photos to flickr and didn't crash (this was with a freshly upgraded N95-1 with only ShoZu installed. Go Nokia go!

Hmm should I tempt fate and install another app like Jaiku?

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on my N95-3, with V 20.0.015 firmware and and ShoZu 3.30 I took 41 photos in 20 minutes and it didn't crash at all, nice!

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The N82 was released today with great fanfare (rightly so since it's the first Nokia with a real flash!) and some fun video but nobody has told me whether it can pass the "Roland Challenge" and the "Roland ShoZu Challenge". I'm hoping the latest Nokias like the N95-3 and the N82 pass because of their increased RAM.

p.s. in case you forgot, here's the Roland Challenge: take 50 pictures in 30 minutes of random stuff and see if the phone or camera app crashes (without any 3rd party software installed and a freshly formatted 2Gig or larger card)

p.p.s. and here's the Roland ShoZu Challenge: Repeat the Roland Challenge but install ShoZu first and set ShoZu to auto-upload and again let me know if ShoZu, camera app or the phone crashes

Assuming of course that the N95-3's increased RAM allows me to finally run ShoZu without memory problems (I can easily crash ShoZu on any S60 simply by following the "Roland Shozu Challenge" - turn on "Auto send" and rapidly take 50 or pictures. This leads to the infamous S60 error message: "Not enough memory to complete operation" and an eventual ShoZu crash). You gotta be "crafty" to use the N95-3 because the user interface is far from intuitive but if you can master it and overcome the S60 memory issues (fingers crossed that the N95-3 solves it), it's an amazing mobile multi-media creation machine (in other words I agree with ThoughtFix (with the proviso that in 2007 I'd also carry an iPhone for mobile Safari and a superior voice call experience)!).

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Is this the blogger's dream team? For this blogger: Yes. A Nokia N95 can capture the photos and video as it happens, then either upload it directly or share an Internet connection with the N810. On the N810, posts can be written formatted, edited, annotated, and published. I wish I had one of these at CES. I may next year.

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