Looks good, but it would be beter for people to wait for an inevitable N96i Upgrade. After all, even if the upgrade does not appear, or is unimpressive, this edition of the phone will still be available and it will be cheaper too.
Hungers
· 1 year ago
How would you know if there is an "inevitable" N96i. Why would you want to wait anyway, and what if as you say the supposingly Nokia "N96i" doesnt come out and you have waited a year for this... You'll be ending up getting a phone a year later, not for free, but for serious money! And would you like to pay £499 for a N95 now, after a year? I don't think so!, noone would want to do that generally for anyphone! DON'T LISTEN TO HER!!!
Ngeek
· 1 year ago
I'm on of the early adopters of the N95-1(since May/07) and besides battery and some small things my device is not that far from the N96 and if you are looking for good battery life...I don't think this is the phone to go. If you have a N95 and you want to upgrade wich devices would you consider having in mind that media and office specs are needed?
Maybe: HTC Touch Pro?
FONGSTA2036
· 1 year ago
who knows the release date in australia?
ENFDO
· 1 year ago
N96 has not Buil-In Acceleration.
Ian Cleasby
· 1 year ago
All I can say is bring it on.. and let the consumers test the battery life..
I do believe it will be improved as from reading previous reviews of the N95, Nokia has targeted so far all the complaints that were mainly the issue for bring the N95 down.
The N96 will be awesome I am excited for it to hit the selves :D
arun
· 1 year ago
such a retarded review ... very amateurish
Andrew
· 1 year ago
Oh that really helps. Your comment is also very retarded and your spelling is very amatuerish.
Aidan Nicholas
· 1 year ago
I just bought one of these on Vodafone.. comes on the 2nd October.. cant wait.. great upgrade from a Samsung U600 hehe. i'll post when i get it n tell y'all how its goin
Chris
· 1 year ago
I have the N96, after waiting for an upgrade for a long time. So far i have been very impressed with all the features, especially the quality of the screen. The battery life seems pretty good considering the applications, i have been using. If you charge your phone everyday whats the problem?
waqar
· 1 year ago
I only hpe that the walkman sound quality through headphones is similar to n91 which till date is rocking...
George
· 1 year ago
OK..AVOID THIS PHONE. Received my N96 upgrade from my n95 8gb today and its gone straight back in the box and being returned. The phone is so slow compared to my n958gb.What the review above fails to mention is the fact that the processor is slower on the n96 and it is also missing the 3d chip used for gaming and other apps such as gps mapping. Look on Youtube for n96 vs n95 and look at the framerate that the preinstalled racing game runs at. the n96 feels very platic and flimsy. Also the camera takes very pale looking pictures (agreed this may be fixed in a firmware update).. Yes it has 16gb and looks pretty but that really is the only improvement. If you have an n95 then wait before you upgrade!!! I've had just about every N series phone and the N96 is the only one i've been really dissapointed with. I'm going to check out the samsung innov8 with 16gb and an 8mp camera.(with online video editing to 120fps)
Harriet
· 1 year ago
Totally disagree in that the N96 is still slow and prone to sticking. I'm really unhappy with this handset.
Mark Shaw
· 1 year ago
The Nokia N96 is a great phone, no doubting that. It can give the iPhone a run for its money any day. Some people will prefer the touch screen on the iPhone, but the N96 performs better all round. Only downside is it weighs a bit more, but that's a smae price to pay for a superior phone. What's more, the phone isn't tied to one network!
Bought the N96 and it is like pre-paying for a five star hotel only to get some flea-bitten crap hotel that you're scared to sleep in... this is an unbelievably bad phone... I had the N95 8gb and thought that was perfection... reliable, incredible, soild, gorgeous... and so, assuming that companies progress, ordered the N96... it's appalling... slow, so full of bugs that it requires a total fumigation and overhaul.... It's on par with the vile Motorola Z8 --- Evil Phone-- which would heat up like an oven for no apparent reason and turn itself off... If you have the N95 8gb, keep it, make a shrine to it, and pray that the powers that be at Nokia get their act together and realise that an upgraded phone means better not worse!
mike
· 10 months ago
totally dis-agree there mate got the 16G n96 had if for about 6 months not had a single problem with it hasn't heated up, turned off once on its own nearly filled it an its still as fast as it was when i got it proper sophisticated handset think you must have just had a bad pick an ive got 7 mates with the n95 8g an 4 of them have regular problem an 3 are fine so i would congratulate nokia on there improvement launchin the n96 16g!!
angel
· 11 months ago
i want one badly but i'll wait until the price drops. By the way who knows how much it is??
I WANT IT!!
mike
· 10 months ago
the n96 16G is the best phone out there ive had it about 6 months an haven't put it down an would advise anybody intending on buyin a new phone to get one, brill piece of technology.
samir
· 9 months ago
that is the sell phone
Ian
· 8 months ago
Don’t be too quick to praise the N96 - I bought mine six months ago and is the worst phone I have EVER owned…
First of all, it is slow. VERY slow. My contacts list takes 15-20 seconds to load when selected - and I have the latest firmware available to me here in Australia (12.043).
The TV is useless. Like most places around the world, there is no-one transmitting DVB-H - at least, nobody does in Australia. Nokia make a big thing in their marketing here about a feature NOBODY can use, and are unlikely to in the life of this phone (unless they take it overseas).
The turn-by-turn GPS is not out-of-the-box. Here in Australia, you get a short free-trial and then you have to pay an additional $130/year to use it! Nowhere is THAT mentioned in their marketing! I tried the free-trial and it was useless - frequently crashing the phone and constantly gave wrong directions. The user interface is, quite frankly, terrible. I gave up and bought a dedicated sat-nav instead. At least that doesn’t disappear when a call comes in!
Bluetooth A2DP? Don’t even get me started! Put simply, IT DOESN’T WORK! The music suffers from the equivalent of a disk-skip every 10 seconds or so - the music isn’t constantly streamed. As good as useless. My $200 Parrot Party Bluetooth speaker unit is useless as a result (correction: everyone else in the office can connect with THEIR phones - SonyEricsson, LG, Samsung etc. - Me, with my ‘market leading Nokia’ phone that cost more than theirs PUT TOGETHER simply won’t stream the music cleanly and sounds horrible).
Nokia have short-changed their customers by supplying a phone with a grossly-underpowered processor. It simply is NOT fast enough to handle the features.
I have never regretted a purchase decision so badly as I did when buying the N96. For me, it was like waiting for Christmas only to find my new toy was smashed and broken upon opening it. Nokia’s customer service has been abysmal - TWO requests for service submitted via their own website - WITH confirmatory emails from them saying someone would get back to me in 72 hours, but so far, nothing. That was 5 months ago.
I guess they’re busy fighting all those other N96 fires.
fuk u
· 6 months ago
im bored ok
joy
· 4 months ago
very disappointed with the phone as it is really really slow and freezes a lot. worst phone I ever had.
All Comments
DON'T LISTEN TO HER!!!
Maybe: HTC Touch Pro?
I do believe it will be improved as from reading previous reviews of the N95, Nokia has targeted so far all the complaints that were mainly the issue for bring the N95 down.
The N96 will be awesome I am excited for it to hit the selves :D
www.nokia-nseries.co.uk
By the way who knows how much it is??
I WANT IT!!
First of all, it is slow. VERY slow. My contacts list takes 15-20 seconds to load when selected - and I have the latest firmware available to me here in Australia (12.043).
The TV is useless. Like most places around the world, there is no-one transmitting DVB-H - at least, nobody does in Australia. Nokia make a big thing in their marketing here about a feature NOBODY can use, and are unlikely to in the life of this phone (unless they take it overseas).
The turn-by-turn GPS is not out-of-the-box. Here in Australia, you get a short free-trial and then you have to pay an additional $130/year to use it! Nowhere is THAT mentioned in their marketing! I tried the free-trial and it was useless - frequently crashing the phone and constantly gave wrong directions. The user interface is, quite frankly, terrible. I gave up and bought a dedicated sat-nav instead. At least that doesn’t disappear when a call comes in!
Bluetooth A2DP? Don’t even get me started! Put simply, IT DOESN’T WORK! The music suffers from the equivalent of a disk-skip every 10 seconds or so - the music isn’t constantly streamed. As good as useless. My $200 Parrot Party Bluetooth speaker unit is useless as a result (correction: everyone else in the office can connect with THEIR phones - SonyEricsson, LG, Samsung etc. - Me, with my ‘market leading Nokia’ phone that cost more than theirs PUT TOGETHER simply won’t stream the music cleanly and sounds horrible).
Nokia have short-changed their customers by supplying a phone with a grossly-underpowered processor. It simply is NOT fast enough to handle the features.
I have never regretted a purchase decision so badly as I did when buying the N96. For me, it was like waiting for Christmas only to find my new toy was smashed and broken upon opening it. Nokia’s customer service has been abysmal - TWO requests for service submitted via their own website - WITH confirmatory emails from them saying someone would get back to me in 72 hours, but so far, nothing. That was 5 months ago.
I guess they’re busy fighting all those other N96 fires.