Xplore: The best filemanager on s60 Symbian phones with rar and zip support. Highly recommended.
Coreplayer: For a multimedia beast like the N95, coreplayer is a must. This player supports almost all formats you can think of and plays them quite well including MP4, 3GP, AVI, MP3 etc.
Gaming
The gaming capability of the N95 is probably the most disappointingly underused aspect of the N95 . Nokia just did not realise what a potentially powerful gaming device the N95 could have become and should have become. To give a clear idea of the immense possibilities of the device picture this: Look at the best iphone/iphone 3g/ipod touch 2g game graphically(I am speaking about games that are compatible across all models not those made specifically for the iphone 3gs), now imagine almost twice that graphical performance and the ability to run it through a tv monitor, get the picture? The N95 had a powervr MBX gpu integrated into its OMAP2420 SOC(system on a chip) along with a 332MHZ arm11 processor and a 200MHZ dsp chip. This powervr MBX chip could output almost 3 million polygons per second or more than twice the output of the powervr MBX lite in the iphone 3g and ipod touch 2g. The gaming capabilities of the N95 can mostly be realised with quake 3 running on the device and outputting to a tv at the same time at perfect sound and speed. The N95 is more powerful than the nintendo wii graphically and could potentially outperform the wii considering that it also integrates an accelerometer and physical buttons. The sizeable screen and large amount of RAM combined with an OK control system could have worked wonders and would have put nokia ahead in the smartphone gaming market. My week of gaming with the N95 8gb involved loading the device with all the best games I can find and hoping that they all work in landscape mode, the traditional format of how a handheld gaming control should be held.
Games Installed:
FIFA 09
Vbag(gba emulator)
Worms World Party
Global Race
Quake 3
All the above games ran in landscape mode except Assassin Creed. The funny thing about Assassin Creed is that there is an option in menu to rotate the screen to landscape but whenever I slide out the multimedia keys I get a this game cannot run in landscape message. Screenshots arent provided in landscape because the screenshot app I use is unable to take snapshots in landscape, Asphalt 3 HD and Assassin Creed are without a screenshot because I keep getting a blank screen in the shots from gamelofts games. I was able to play FIFA 09, Gba games on the vbag emulator and quake 3 quite well via tv out with little problem whatsoever. The multimedia keys were mapped to various numeric keys with an app called magic keys which allowed me to play games quite well using the play and stop keys as A and B respectively. Ngage games also played well although the platform is literally dead. The games also seemed to be of lower quality than their native s60 counterparts when played through tv out. The big jewel of the lot though is quake 3 which ran perfectly well on my tv monitor and was quite entertaining to say the least. If you have a wii you could pair the wiimote to the N95 with a simple program, allowing you to play games using the controller. Quake 3 showed well what gaming on the N95 could have been like, a failed possibilty.