Comments on: Nokia N96 from 3 arrives in September

By: LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:28:14 +0000

LOL

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:04:15 +0000

I think you need to head your own advice – there is no useful tactile feedback on the slick face used for this and similar keypads.

The device has been in circulation for months – plenty of people have had hands-on pre-production.

By: calmdownguys

calmdownguys — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:23:36 +0000

brilliant.

you say 16gb is too much storage and it should have 8gb, which is one of the funniest things i have ever read on a technology website, then slate the keyboard after praising an iphone. do you read through your posts before you press the submit button?

or maybe you've either a) never really held a real life n96 but wish you had, or b) quite obviously never tried to "tactile feedback is king" under-the-desk txt msg on the iphone.

just hilarious. let the phone come out before you slate it.

By: LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:28:14 +0000

LOL

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:04:15 +0000

I think you need to head your own advice – there is no useful tactile feedback on the slick face used for this and similar keypads.

The device has been in circulation for months – plenty of people have had hands-on pre-production.

By: calmdownguys

calmdownguys — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:23:36 +0000

By: Mr-X

Mr-X — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:16:57 +0000

Thank you for your speedy reply!

By: smstextnews

smstextnews — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:54:09 +0000

Mr-X, on the demo unit I saw, there were no logos whatsoever other than the
Nokia standard. But that might change with the actual production units!

By: Mr-X

Mr-X — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:21:40 +0000

Hi Ewan,

Can you remember if there was any physical 3 branding on the devices that were on display? For example the N95 8GB has a small 3 logo above the camera.

Thanks.

By: mostlythis

mostlythis — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:57:45 +0000

well one thing that nokia does well on the n series is build quality
my n95 is bomb proof, has been dropped, abused and genrally beaten about
and is still solid.

By: mostlythis

mostlythis — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:56:45 +0000

nice to see how speedy the ui is – a constant nag with S60 is its UI lag.

By: mostlythis

mostlythis — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:00:38 +0000

its hard to get overly im pressed by the N96 – esp if you already have an N95 8gb.
I'm on an N95 old skool – so may well go this route – but I'm still wondering about the tube and its as yet unknown n-series big brother. oh and what ever android has to throw at us.

By: Mike42

Mike42 — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:21:23 +0000

"HSDPA brilliance"? er, doesn't just about every new handset have that? Like the new Skypephone at about 1/10th the cost to the MNO?

And 16GB of storage? Neither here nor there - literally. Serious musophiles have 80GB iPods, otherwise 8GB will do you for many days of listening.

Sorry, but having roughed one up for a while, I am singularly unimpressed with the N96. Not enough, too late.

As James Qik'd, the graphics is a backward step while Super Monkey Ball shows the way on the iPhone.

And don't get me started on the awful, awful keypad. When we KNOW tactile feedback is king, that in-the-pocket or under-the-desk entry is important for many, they go and make it completely FLAT..

N96 = a flaming great pile of meh.

Oh, and the plastic kickstand will last all of 6 minutes in real life.

By: roninja

roninja — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:02:48 +0000

no point buying this phone its a limited edition model – true N95 successor will be OMAP3 powered with faster processor and graphics and new S60 v5 UI this phone is seriously lacking in the graphical and power departments nice video capabilties though!

By: smstextnews

smstextnews — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:45:05 +0000

For future reference Jon, what would you have liked to see?

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:41:09 +0000

Nice! You could have played with it a bit more though!

By: smstextnews

smstextnews — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:26:07 +0000

I know. Shocking.

By: James Whatley

James Whatley — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:21:04 +0000

You know you *almost* sound impressed with that Nokia…