Although it was announced quite a while ago, the Nokia N96 will be bought by customers as of October 1st. I think this is a good thing that Nokia did, to wait until now. Probably they wanted to test the cellphone in order to make it almost perfect.
We all know that the N95 was a big hit, as well as the N95 8GB which is one of the coolest handsets ever. Though it didn’t get too much attention like the iPhone 3G or the HTC Dream, the N96 will be enjoyed by lots of people as Nokia is developing solid cellphones that will not crash.
The only problem that Nokia has, is the Symbian OS now at 9.3 version which still has many issues. Besides that, the N96 will feature 16GB internal flash memory, a 2.8-inch QVGA TFT screen, a 5-megapixel camera, 128MB RAM, 256MB system memory, a 3.5mm headphone jack, a MicroSD slot and a 950 mAh battery which runs 4 hours of talk time and 10 days in standby.
The Nokia N96 will be available in Europe for a price of €550. If you think this is much, then you are wrong as the spec list also includes Bluetooth stereo audio (A2DP), USB 2.0 connectivity, Stereo FM and Internet radio, Java and it supports WCDMA2100/900 (HSDPA) / EGSM900, GSM850/1800/1900 MHz, and I could go on for hours. I can’t wait to get my hands on one!
September 25th, 2008 at 9:28 am
Its difficult to say this early on, however, with the very first firmware update for the N96, this should make things more interesting, and any small improvements this update bring, will make the N96 more desirable imo.