Reviews - Reader comments

Nokia N96 review: King's new clothes

03 October 2008 | Read the review | Post your comment
Nokia N96 review: King's new clothes - read the full textEvery time Nokia Nseries numbering goes up a notch geeks are holding their breath. Well, geeks - including us - are no ordinary human beings, but in the case of Nokia N96 they'd been holding their breath since February...

 

Pages: 12 3 45

> In reply to BR Guy @ 2008-10-05 19:33 from PY9wThat's odd, I've got my N95 8GB nearly 11 months now and the slider is as good as new :O

  • Reply
  • 2008-10-07 07:38
  • 3KeK

too old outdated fon,seems like the last top of the line n series phones

  • Reply
  • 2008-10-07 06:03
  • jeaB

Very ugly phone !!!

  • Reply
  • 2008-10-07 02:25
  • 3cY@

this is a more than one year old phone....it has nothing new ...just oldies

  • Reply
  • 2008-10-06 19:58
  • nDBB

I'm very surprised by the disappointment every one is having with this one. But I guess that's what happens when you do more of the same, and in this case donwgrading some of the key features of your flagship device, people aren't going to take it too well. The N95 was a true innovation, the N96 is a rehash.

  • Reply
  • 2008-10-06 18:59
  • 4GEY

no!!!! its a no go......features maybe good but too expensive & the design is TOO SIMPLE.other models looks even better.

  • Reply
  • 2008-10-06 16:32
  • vFkQ

"Doesn't charge via the USB port, Dreadful camera key, Cheap looking keypad, Unreasonably hefty price tag" - Nokia goes down, even more expensive stuff like E90 has design, material and manufacturing problems, I want to buy a new PDA/communicator but I'm stuck - IMHO nothing actually offered is worth spending money for even half the price...

  • Reply
  • 2008-10-06 16:11
  • MWnw

Just a silly thing really, but the car charget thing is untrue. N96 it's not the first Nokia to have it in the box, I bought an E90 (and I swear by it, love my brick of a phone) and it too had it.

  • Reply
  • 2008-10-06 09:40
  • i5qv

> In reply to BR Guy @ 2008-10-05 19:33 from PY9wSlider is fine. Yeah the truth is this ph has prob with firmware. I really wish nokia fix it. My N96 doesnt even have naviwheel feature. What the hack? Anyway, this N96 design is perfect for me.

  • Reply
  • 2008-10-06 07:05
  • PUTD

this phone is so slow I hope nokia release better firmware because as of now this phone is slower than a snail!

  • Reply
  • 2008-10-05 22:20
  • j{kC

Does anyone know how is the slider of n96? This is the only complain I have about my N95 8GB right now.

  • Reply
  • 2008-10-05 19:33
  • PY9w

Reviewer has problems with n81 design? Sad... i think its awesome!

  • Reply
  • 2008-10-05 18:54
  • 0xUc

i LIKE nokia 2nd generation Nseries Design. They r hard to attract ppl in first sight, but they can last longer than any other design. I have N96 and it has full of bugs. Now in servicing. But I still like the design. Hope all those bugs gone after servicing.

  • Reply
  • 2008-10-05 16:18
  • TIEh

> In reply to Anonymous @ 2008-10-04 08:16 from TIE7yesss.. nokia also more expensive here in indonesia....how come they said innov are more expensive than n96?

  • Reply
  • 2008-10-05 15:34
  • wrY6

> In reply to Anonymous @ 2008-10-05 08:44 from 3CeMyes....nokia look ugly.....always brick...always copying the design from previous products....boooriiingggg....

  • Reply
  • 2008-10-05 15:32
  • wrY6

Quote:
The Innov8 however is slightly more expensive than N96 and it lacks the complimentary stuff (Nokia Maps, 3 months of voice navigation, a free N-gage game and the Transformers movie).
------------------------------------------------­----
who needs nokia maps, 3 months of voice navigatiot and transformer movie? another brick from nokia.duhhhh....wheres the creativity???

  • Reply
  • 2008-10-05 15:30
  • wrY6

> In reply to Dan @ 2008-10-05 08:27 from LAfni know bro, i love the new Nseries look, they look amazing but almost everyone who i've shown my N78 to -the first thing they pretty much said was that its really ugly it never hurt me cause i love it and yea everyone has their own personal taste but its not a good shot at attacking a rival phone by starting off with looks...unless the design caused inconveince in using the phone looks should be left to the phones that are made for that segment like the 8800 and 8600, its seems really cheap to bash feature phones by saying the device is ugly so having a great cam, strong os and pretty much a all-in-one device are degraded because you don't like the looks, so basiclly if the exact same thing was in a different shape it would be a perfect phone for you? never made sense to me...where were you guys when phones looked like rubber toys. I like how the phones looks stay prime to the series shows some elegence in that line, but thats all i like, don like it don buy it...later homie

  • Reply
  • 2008-10-05 08:44
  • 3CeM

I DONT think it's an ugli phone , just watch some other phones on the market.. i think nokia has a good look on this new nseries phone ..for young people but ok that's your opinion and this is mine, youre still doing a good job un reweing phone continio gsmarena :D

  • Reply
  • 2008-10-05 08:27
  • LAfn

The N78 and N96 designers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...net/tag/n96/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...net/tag/n96/

  • Reply
  • 2008-10-05 03:55
  • 3CeM

yea the picture quality does seem to be alittle low but thats was the case with all new phones....even the N73 i bought that phone just a few days after it came and it was full of bugs man, it would hang every other minuate and the pic qualtiy was really bad...over time newer FW really fixed almost everything and even in the N95 its pics quality has improved over time and i hope nokia do the same with the N96 however if you goto Pascosblog (http://www.jaspp.net/) he's updated his N96 FW and has a Pic comparrision of the N96 and Samsung Innov8 and the N96 does look great and i believe its better, i think GSMarena had a old FW and the first FW is always the worst, i got a N78 right now and the FW is messed up bigtime, in Camera sometimes it does't Zoom! and it hangs alot....but i'm sure with updates the phone gets better.....later!

  • Reply
  • 2008-10-04 23:27
  • 3CeM
Pages: 12 3 45

Note: Sponsored advertising links are in green.