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While I am waiting for my Nokia N95, I might as well visualize how I would use the phone in a business situation. Work takes up quite a portion of my life, so my phone needs to be as much an assist as possible.

5 Ways of optimizing the use of the Nokia N95 in business:
[by the way, some of these applications are non-free software, but you might charge your boss for this, as positive contributions to workflow optimization]

Answering Machine
Instead of using your provider’s voicemail service, why not keeping things on the phone itself with third party answering machine software:
Answering Machine offers dozens of easy to use function to record voice messages, to play greetings messages and to organize recorded messages. Additionally there are plenty of useful status information existing. A global icon indicates that Answering Machine is activated on the device.
Overview of the functions of Answering Machine: Record voice messages, Play greeting messages, Organize recorded messages, Status information, Global indicator, Configuration of volume, Define storage drive, Time and Date of Message, Number of caller, Name of caller, Delete messages and Compress messages.
More info + Purchase
Remember faces
Whether you need this depends on how many business contact you have of course, but is fun and practical to have the picture of a business contact showing up when you receive a call. Asking a picture for this purpose will have to become part of your get-to-know talk, but it might be appreciated.
There are 2 options for this:
- SkyeCaller - Full Screen Caller Display
  Skyecaller allows you Full Screen Caller Display
  The smartest looking caller-image display software available
  Easy to use
  Set an image to a contact
  Incoming & outgoing calls will display contact image and details on full screen
  Incoming & outgoing text messages will display contact image and details on full screen
  More Info + Purchase
- Best Full Screen Caller for S60 3rd
  Do you want to see a person who is calling you more clearly and in details? Well, use Best Full Screen Caller and your wish will be granted! Best Full Screen Caller can show you the big picture of a person when you are receiving a phone call if this person is stored in your contacts database!
  Best Full Screen Caller allows associating a big picture with each contact, group or even unknown caller. To set the picture, click Picture in the main view of the application, select the contact or the group and set the picture for them using menu item Select picture.
  Flexible layout options of Best Full Screen Caller allow customizing the appearance of the screen shown during the call.
  More Info + Purchase
Comparing these 2 options, I see that the second one has a few more settings options, but the possibility of SkyeCaller to also add a picture to an incoming SMS is a plus too.
Bluetooth business card exchange
Make sure you have your own contact details up-to-date in your phone… more and more I see people around me exchanging their digital business cards by Bluetooth.
Business card Scanner
For those business contacts of yours that are yet digitally evolved to the point of bluetooth exchange, use your N95’s camera to make a picture of their business card. Best option would be to have an application like SonyEricsson’s P990i has, with which the phone extract the contact details from the taken business card picture…
If anybody has a link to a S60 application for this, please share.
Editing documents
Just take a look at this set-up from Symbian Freak:

This set-up together with Quick Office, you will be able to work on Word, PowerPoint or Excel files without the need for a bulky laptop or computer!