Nokia N96 begins shipping
By Dusan Belic on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 at 8:35 AM PST In Announcements, Devices, Nokia
Ladies and gents, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has today announced that its N96 superphone is about to hit the stores. The all-in-one dual-slider comes with a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, 16GB of internal memory, DVB-H mobile TV receiver, GPS, WiFi, 2.8-inch QVGA screen and a whole lot more.
According to the official release, first shipments of the Nokia N96 have started and it will be available with an estimated retail price of 550 EUR before taxes and subsidies…
Superphone is not a word to be used lightly, and probably not on a phone whose specs haven’t changed in the last year since it was announced. I was hoping Nokia would beat their estimates for S60 Touch and have a product shipping by now, maybe worked into the N96 at the last minute for a surprise. Or a xenon flash module. Maybe an 8mp camera like some of the newer “superphones”? But these days it seems like nobody’s working over there. Very disappointing.
Ditto here. Superphone should evolve. Nokia threw up an updated clone to N95 (which I own and love) however as I mentioned in another forum – Nokia lost my revenue for the next few months / years. The reason for it that I’m on T-Mobile US network. With their 3G popping up on a weekly basis in more cities and the upcoming phones (Android) I will not be spending $700 on a device which will not allow me to use my network to its full potential. Nokia could have easily release either Two US versions (T-Mob and at&t) or a single US one with Both frequencies but instead they chose to go with at&t only. In my opinion this was the most stupid move – I know more than one person that would gladly fork out $700+ for this phone if it had T-Mobile’s band as it would allow them to have a device ready for October’s launch (since Android is of questionable design / functionality). Instead I will be jumping on the Android phone and patiently wait for Nokia’s T-Mobile device. However by the time Nokia will smell the coffee – it better not be some paltry device with 3.2 MP camera and LED flash and S40 OS.
Superphone’s camera is fine at 5MP but it better have the latest release of S60, XENON, WiFi, AT LEAST Dual band WCDMA, not squeaky, and a battery to kill…1200 and above mAh plus GPS. Otherwise Nokia….Don’t bother to call me.