Nokia N96 Reviews

[danielstallon]

Now a days Nokia N96 is very demanding in market. Nokia N96 is very good cell phone and it's features is also excellent.

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The Nokia N96 features 16GB of storage and advanced multimedia features, including a 5-megapixel camera. The smartphone also has integrated Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and 3G support. The N96 just doesn't stack up to the competition at this point. The N96 lacks a touch screen and a full QWERTY keyboard, in contrast to the T-Mobile G1, the HTC Touch Pro, and the BlackBerry Bold

Nokia rates the phone's battery for up to 160 minutes of talk time on 3G, and 200 hours of standby time. We'll update this review with a final rating once the PC World Test Center completes its battery-life tests.

The biggest difference between the N96 and its predecessor is its 16GB of flash memory (the N95 had merely half of that). This is a huge boon, because the N96 has excellent video and music capabilities. You can store up to 40 hours of video and up to 12,000 audio tracks in the on-board memory. Not enough for you? The N96 also has a microSD slot on its left side for more storage.

The N96's Video Center contains all of your video content, including your personal videos, Internet videos, and video podcasts. The N96 supports a solid variety of video formats: MPEG-4 Part 2 (H.263/SP), MPEG-4 Part 10 (H.264/AVC), WMV9, and RealVideo with playback at 30 frames per second.

As an audio player, the N96 is equally as flexible, supporting MP3, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, and WMA files. The music player behaves in a fairly standard fashion: You can create playlists on the go, view album art on the now-playing screen, and browse songs by artist, album, genre, or composer. The N96 also has some nice audio bonuses, including built-in 3D speakers, a standard 3.5mm headphone jack (which really shouldn't be a bonus, but a lot of smart phones lack one), and an FM tuner. Unfortunately, U.S. customers won't be able to use the Nokia Music store to browse and purchase tracks.

[gianji]

It is most liked phone after iPhone. It has great features and 1st time in mobile phones TV feature has been introduced by Nokia N96.

[Jemma88]

Good review, lists all the main features and really casts the N96 in a very positive light.

[getconnectedav]

I own a N95, if u don like QWERTY this phone is mad better than NE other out there. Web browsing could be smoother/faster. Love the wifi, the REAL on-board sat. receiver that NO OTHER PHONE HAS..... AT ALL, the FM radio and the 3.5mm jack. Excellent quality lenses as well in the primary camera, secondary front panel camera is lower quality. <3

[jasonvw]

Im really liking my N96-3. Like it so much Im getting rid of my E71 which gthe qwerty will be missed, but I can make do. Also owned an N95-1 as well as an N95-4. The N96 is a nice upgrade to the n95s.
The design is much nicer. I love the kickstand. Camera is the same Id say. Battery life is better even though its using a lower powered battery. You can use the BL6F battery if you want, it does make the cover curve out a little.
The whole phone feels faster. GPS locks in very fast. Call quality is just as good as the N95s. Screen is nice and bright. The accelerometer works better I find. The 2 speakers are very loud and clear.
The bad things are the keypads. Well the dialing keypad isnt too bad and you get used to it. It actually has a very nice feel to it after you get used to it. But the other buttons arent very good besides the multimedia key. They just dont feel very good and are a little difficult to use. The dpad is fine. But Im not really sure why they put multimedia keys all around the dpad when the dual slider has them as well? By doing this they made the rest of the keys much smaller. I think its actually a very bad design especially considering its not useful at all. Well I guess if you want to use portrait mode it is. The camera button is also sunk in a little too much. You need to get used to it. But it was way better on the N95's. The slider on mine is also quite loose. I bought it used off ebay so couldnt really check it. Ive ordered a whole new slider from cnn, so hopefully that fixes it.

Overall though Im loving the phone. I really do like the dual slider design and hope nokia keep using it. What I really want to see is a phone like this, with a very solid slider and made out of metal like the e71. Though I think my next phone will be the N900.

[smits282]

I would say, Nokia has just upgraded N95 a little and came up with N96!! A 5 mega pixel camera with autofocusing feature, good built-in memory ie. 16 GB, 3G features such a video calling, GPS satellite navigation!! Everything that we want in todays world!! but it battery life is poor.. and not very sure about Symbian operating system