The Crusaders

After pictures was leaked a couple of months ago, a multimedia computer N96 is official now. Nokia made the phone available at GSMA Barcelona in Feb 11, 2008. The N96 has a 5MP camera with Carl-Zeiss lens and Xenon flash, and will come with S60 3rd feature pack, which is yet to make a release. It has brilliant 2.8” display and with superb sound. The phone is said to be come with 16GB of space built in, with an option to double that with expandable memory.

I don’t think it going to make N95 superseded. Always a company should make their old product obsolete otherwise some other company will do it. But N96 seems weak to obsolete N95. After launching N95, its looks foolish to have launch N96 with the same feature like N95 except the built in memory of 16 GB, double the memory of N95. This would be the largest inbuilt memory on a Nokia mobile phone so far but it is no better to say the successor of N95. Nokia is just increasing its storage to compete with iPhone, iPod but is completely ignoring other better Mobile Phones like LG with 5.1 Mega Pixel Camera.

“What I fell like is ……this is not good idea to launch it after N95 this could have been done very before”, one of the Nokia user said. And I completely agree with him. No one is going to pay N96 higher (600 Euros) than N95 just because it’s built in memory is double than before i.e. 16 GB. Nowadays, N-Series Nokia phones comes with features of expandable memory to 24GB using a micro/mini SD card. Now why to buy N96???

When my friend told me that N96 has been unveiled, I was expecting some extra feature than N95, like 6 to 8 Mega pixel Camera, touch screen and other features. But it seemed like Nokia don’t have any bows left to shoot in offence. They are just trying to sell the old product in a new packaging with higher prices. Anyways there are some major sites that are offering cool nokia N96 deals. Be sure to check them out before buying this phone for a high price.

written by rajit \\ tags: N96, Nokia N96, Nokia N96 deals