With the gap between smart mobile phones and computers becoming smaller and smaller, Nokia revealed new plans that will make its popular N95 smart phone one of the most attractive devices of its kind.

First of all, the famous Finnish phone maker announced on Monday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that it would make available an 8 GB version of its N95 model in the United States. The phone is also planned to support HSDPA (high speed data packet access) cellular technology, which is capable of achieving speeds of between 8 and 10 Mbps. Through this move, Nokia’s N95 smart mobile phone will become compatible with AT&T’s high-speed network; on the other hand, it will become incompatible with Versizon Wireless and Sprint, which use different cellular technology.

Nokia said that the 8 GB N95 model, priced no less than $749, is scheduled to become available on the market starting with the first quarter of this year.

Because of its price, the phone is not likely to attract a wide group of users. However, Nokia seems very proud of its new smart gadget, which is in fact an upgrade to the original 120-Mbyte N95 unveiled in 2006.

Nokia called the new N95 “the memory-packed big brother” to the original phone, taking into account that the new phone’s expanded memory offers users the possibility to store up to 20 hours of video or 6,000 songs, for example.

Nokia’s new N95’s expanded capacities include also a 5-megapixel camera, built-in Wi-Fi for accessing the Internet using hotspots and built-in GPS. The phone slides two ways, for better functionality.