Nokia N96 Specs Leaked

[Ben]

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/02/08/nokia_n96_rumours/


Nokia is rumoured to be on the verge of announcing the successor to the popular N95, following the discovery of tech specs on the mobile giant’s German website.

The Finnish phone giant has since closed the page, but not before a selection of sites managed to scrawl down the handset’s tech specs, which have caused many to dub the upcoming handset the N96.

According to one transcription of the Nokia website specs, the N96 is a quad-band GSM/GPRS/Edge handset with 3G HSDPA connectivity over the 850MHz and 2100MHz bands. It also has DVB-H reception, the European standard for digital TV signals being sent to mobile phones, on board.

To refresh your memory, both the original and 8GB offering of the N95 are quad-band GSM/GPRS/Edge handsets, supporting 3G HSDPA connections. However, they don’t include DVB-H.

Like the earlier model, the N96 will offer 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Assisted GPS technology too.

In addition to DVB-H, the N96 is said to double the N95's 8GB storage capacity to 16GB of internal memory, in addition to a Micro SDHC card slot. Rumour even has it that users can take home a 24GB N96, if they stump up an extra $80 (£40/€65).

A five-megapixel camera means the N96 will keep up with the N95’s photography capabilities, but it’s rumoured to shoot video at 30 frames per second. It has a micro USB port too.

It's unknown whether or not Nokia’s ‘leak’ was a genuine mistake or just a piece of viral marketing, but next week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is sure to see plenty of interest around the Nokia booth. So, that’s marketing’s job done.
Yum.

[whatleydude]

It is a horrible, horrible device.

You won't want one.

[miffed]

16GB eh ? Who could have seen that one coming ? :rolleyes:

[Hands0n]

LOL at Nokia putting the SD slot back in the 16GB N95. Of course, they had to leapfrog the iPhone - except that they didn't.

Not trying to start phone wars here but I have to chuckle really. If the iPhone is so inferior why is every single manufacturer trying to beat it? How can you beat something inferior if your product is already better?

I do think that it long overdue that phone memory was not made significantly larger. Now this 16GB is [admittedly] Flash and not RAM, so is for storage and not running apps. But the tiny memory maps of the incumbent handsets really has to stop. It is crippling them, coupled with flaky OS revisions. Nokia in V20 of their S60 OS do finally seem to have managed to tame its flakiness while making it more stable to run multiple apps. But if they only popped in a larger capacity DRAM their flagship handsets would run like a dream. That memory has been very inexpensive for simply years, so they've had no excuse not to. PDA manufacturers can have the same accusation levelled at them also.

Even the iPhone is not immune from criticism with its 76MB of RAM (http://furbo.org/2007/08/21/what-the-iphone-specs-dont-tell-you/) available to the user (more like 128MB on the board, but partitioned off for other purposes). OS X will make good use of this RAM no doubt, and Nokia have sorted out their issues as I said above.

Come on people - lets be having some serious lumps of RAM in these so-called computers.

[gorilla]

I tell you what, 24 gig on a phone is pretty good. Now will people want that much storage on the N96? Absolutely. As screens improve, battery life gets longer and memory prices reduce, those phones with bigger memories will appeal to everyone.

As for the N96, well I wont be getting one just yet. It will probably compete head to head with the 3g iphone and we all know who will win there.