Nokia N96 to Start Shipping July 31st
It looks like the changing of the guard may happen sooner than some would have thought. According to the play.com shop, Nokia’s N96 will begin shipping on July 31st for a whopping £600 or $1,185 as of today’s exchange rate. It will be interesting to see what price point it gets in the US, but our friends across the pond may end up saving money by flying over here to snag one. Ok, maybe not. The N96 as you know, is the peppy heir to the flagship Nseries throne and will be the second Feature Pack 2 device issued by Nokia. It’s a multimedia powerhouse with stunning specs, a solid design and a shiny new chipset that should help tremendously with power consumption. We’re very excited to check this sucker out. The big question of course: Does the N96 build nicely upon the precedent set by the N95 8GB or just basically repackage it? With details like up to 32 GB of memory, Feature Pack 2 and plenty more, we’re thinking the former might just be the case.
[Via S60 Blogger]
Who cares! Wheres the E71!!!???
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they’ve got a lot of moxy to charge $1185 for a phone that only has a 3 hour battery life. I could care less what specs it has, if you have to carry around a generator to use it then it’s worthless.
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LOL - over $1000!
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When it comes out on the networks in august it will be free on 18 month contracts.
Calm down people!
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A Grand for a phone DAM!!!
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Hmmm…buy an unlocked N96 or pay my car note, car insurance, cable, power, gas and cell phone bills?
Hmmmm…..
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$1000+ freakingly expensive.. hope the price would drop
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thats alot of money, the likes of which i don’t have. man this costs more than my xbox360 and all the games i have put together. i will wait for the e71, am just hoping its not expensive.
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Will the N96 have a reasonable camera like the N82 (Xenon Flash) or the same blind one like the N95/N81/…?
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From playing around with prototypes, it still has a LED flash like the N95, but it has two LEDs instead of just one so it’s brighter. Still no match for the N82 as far as that xenon flash goes, so it depends on what is most important to the consumer. The camera, GPS and ShoZu is pretty much all I use personally on my N82 so I think i shall stick with it for a bit.
Best,
Jambo
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