I (or most of us) want for this coming Christmas is a brand new... gadget!
A digital audio player? A laptop maybe? A new portable media player? Or a new digital camera?
What if you can get them all in just one device? You might be thinking "yeah, it’s gotta be the N95. And you can have it on the 8GB version if you want more storage space."
I'm suggesting this one - the N96.
At a glance...
"First impressions last" on N96. Compared to the N95, holding the N96 feels sturdier or tougher in terms of the materials used. It is a little heavier. The corners of the N96 are curved which is appealing in today’s trend. Its black motiff and metallic gray accent is a complementing combination. The battery cover has a wave-like imprint
As with the N95, the N96 comes in a two-way slider form factor. Its users will surely notice the phone has a seamless, glossy, black finish. Slide it up to reveal the alphanumeric keypad and you’ll notice that its already leveled flat, with only the "5" key having two small bumps. Slide it down and you see the multimedia buttons for use in playing music and videos.
The volume keys (also the zoom in and out in camera mode) and shutter button are still located on the right side. On the corners of this side is where the two stereo speakers are located. The left side is where the microSD card slot is placed, as well as a small hole for wrist strap at the lower corner. There is a keyguard switch on top that replaces the lock/unlock shortcut in the N95.
Turn it over and you will see the same 5-megapixel Carl Zeiss autofocus camera, but there are now two flash lamps(which I assume to be Xenon). Take notice of the small gap underneath the camera - it’s what Nokia calls a "kickstand" and it functions as a support when viewing the N96 in portrait mode (like a picture frame).
What’s inside...
Nokia NSeries users won‘t be alienated with the grid menu. The photos, music, and video
center icons are out of the media sub-menu. This, along with the Web and games, is what an NSeries phone is all about.
Don’t fear that you will have to look for the other features because they are now in the Apps or Tools sub-menu. The new feature here is the MobileTV Xtra. The N96 has a DVB-H TV broadcast receiver feature allowing users to watch TV shows wirelessly (this is network-dependent).
You might have to get used to the keypad, when composing text messages, if youre fingers can’t feel the buttons immediately.
Using the camera might be a bit frustrating at first because the shutter button needs to be pressed deeper - either on the half-press to use the auto focus or the full press for the photo capture itself. A noticeable improvement here is that photos and videos are saved faster.
Going deeper...
Perhaps the most impressive internal part of the N96, for most consumers is the phones storage capacity. It has three separate drives - the phone memory, mass memory, and memory card. Approximately, the phone memory has about 256Mb while the mass memory at 16GB.
I’m pretty sure those who just bought an 8GB version of the N95 and N81 phones will be pretty upset when the N96 gets released in the local market. So far, this is what mobile computing has become...and what we would all love for the Yultide season.
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