Though it looks like a modest dust mask, the N95 is a triumph of materials science.
Data presented at the IDSA meeting also highlighted the problems with N95 respirators, Rupp says.
Yet when he wants to actually, you know, call someone, he grabs his Nokia N95.
The N95 blocks 95% of particles bigger than 0.3 microns, or one-three-hundredth the width of a human hair.
Instead, health workers should switch to N95 respirators that form an airtight seal around the nose and mouth.
CNN: Report on handling H1N1 cases: Use masks with airtight seals
The Canadian government is trying to buy 8 million N95 masks, the gold standard of protection, for Toronto hospitals.
Consider the Samsung Galaxy right now, but remember also the recent past with the iPhone, the Nokia N95, the Motorola Razr etc.
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Nokia uses Navteq data to power the maps in its new phones equipped with GPS chips, including the N95 and 6110 Navigator.
Early next year Nokia will begin selling the new N95, a luxe phone with a silvery front, beige back and two-way sliding top.
"The take-home message for me is that, in clinical settings, wearing a mask or an N95 appears to be essentially equivalent, " says Mark E.
Nokia has lost market share in smart phones to it competition since its last widely adopted high-end smart phone, the N95 all the way back in 2006.
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Vodafone, one of O2's chief rivals, is currently offering dozens of phones free with certain contracts in the U.K., including the N95 from Nokia and the BlackBerry Pearl.
If properly fitted and worn correctly, N95 respirators filter out at least 95 percent of particles as small as 0.3 micrometers, which is smaller than influenza viruses, the report notes.
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At this point, the beta's focus is pretty limited -- you've gotta be in the US and you need to be rocking a Nokia E65, N75, or N95.
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Nokia's N95 and N96 phones also support video conferencing outside the U.S. HTC makes several high-end phones with front-facing cameras for video conferencing, including the Touch Diamond, Touch Pro and Touch HD.
We've tested full-screen Slinged content on the N95 8GB and we personally think it looks great as it is, so it'll be interesting to see just how good they can get it.
The CDC recommends that health-care workers in close contact with people with suspected or confirmed H1N1 influenza use a properly fitted, disposable N95 respirator, or something that offers similar or better protection.
To date the mobile industry has flirted with films with Motorola shipping its Z8 handset with The Bourne Identity and Nokia offering users of its N95 8GB model, the Spiderman 3 movie.
Makers of N95 masks, such as 3M (nyse: MMM - news - people ), Moldex and Gerson, have more than tripled production to 12 million masks per week since the outbreak.
At first glance, the pretty real-looking N96 spotted in the wild late last year looked like little more than an N95 updated to match the new Nseries design language debuted by the N81.
Cameraphones have never been known to snap the best photos (except for you, dear N95), and the purported 'in the wild' shot of Apple's impending iPhone that you see above is 'clearly' no different.
High speed data is obviously crucial here, and those three models happen to sport the prerequisite S60 plus WiFi -- in the case of the E65 and N95 -- or 3G, if you've gone the N75 route.
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Vodafone (nyse: VOD - news - people ), one of O2's chief rivals, is currently offering dozens of phones free with certain contracts in the U.K., including the N95 from Nokia (nyse: NOK - news - people ) and the BlackBerry Pearl.
The faux carbon fiber back is a little cheesy -- particularly for a device that otherwise looks fairly businesslike -- but with 7.2Mbps HSDPA, GPS, a WQVGA display, and a 5 megapixel camera on board, it's hard to argue that this device can't be competitive (put this up against the far bulkier, uglier N95, for example).
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Both studies helped inform an Institute of Medicine (IOM) panel that, in September 2009, issued a report recommending the use of fitted N95 respirators by health-care workers who interact with patients with confirmed or suspected cases of H1N1. (MacIntyre was also a member of that panel.) However, because the two studies were preliminary, the committee said that it could not draw conclusions from either.
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