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Nokia N96 and N78: Hands On |
| Written by Brandon | |
| Tuesday, 12 February 2008 11:31 | |
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Norman from Symbian World has some of the first hands on videos with both of Nokia's recently announced N series. The videos, ranging from two minutes on the N78 to three and a half with the N96, gives a solid look into the build quality and design of both mobiles, while also touching on a number of key features. Both phones appear to have the same glossy black finish and similar design that we saw in the N81, but the similarities end there. Hit the jump for Norman's full videos in the Nokia booth......
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  written by Brandon, February 12, 2008
@davidm
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I was also expecting a bit more myself. I hate to see Samsung's and Sony's leaking 7 mega pixel (even though that isn't everything) and optical zooms on their new mobiles. A qwerty N series would have also done the trick. The N78 and N96 didn't really revolutionize the N series, although it was nice to see the storage increase. report abuse
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 written by davidm, February 14, 2008
@Brandon,
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Yeah, resolution isn't as important as quality, and the quality is good - it's too bad the camera operation is too slow. I don't get the n96 myself, but only after experience. I thought more storage would be better, but it turns out 6gb is more than enough for my core collection. I guess if people watch movies, or capture a lot of video on their mobile it might matter, but I don't think it's that important, except as a number. Anyway, I hope between the iphone and winmo the competition heats up in terms of offering consumers consistent platform support and updates. But I get the sense that Nokia is a very marketing driven company, I saw a long interview video and there was a rep from marketing there, their job is to segment functionality and limit devices unnaturally, I think that's despicable, it's not like we are anywhere near the perfect device. We may be at a plateau now in terms of what a device should have, and most major vendor provide devices that are close to the plateau (3g, good capture, storage, healthy 3rd party software supply - the n95 sorely lacks one feature, touch screen, and all devices lack input as good as a keyboard) but there is a lot of innovation to come. report abuse
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 written by ravada, February 24, 2008
i like it. greate device. i'l e change my old to thihs new. )
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Don't get me wrong, the individual features can be good, but it's obviously an unproductive line. Nokia should abandon the current n-series "deadweights," and focus on the "n-touch experience" and associated value-adds (GPS, games, music, maybe they could acquire wikipedia), since they have so many customers they can easily do this without worrying about current n series customer profiles.