Nokia's N96 looks likely to feature quad-band GSM and dual-band HSDPA
Nokia 'iPhone killer' specs leaked
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13 Feb 2008, Guy Dixon , V3
Details of Nokia's eagerly anticipated top-of-the-range N96 handset have appeared on the manufacturer's German website.
The page listing the specs of the successor to the N95 has since been taken down, but was up long enough to be feasted on by the mobile press.
In an overt effort to outdo Apple's iPhone, the N96 looks likely to feature quad-band GSM and dual-band HSDPA.
The phone will run on the Symbian S60 FP2 operating system and will sport a 2.8in QVGA screen with a 16.7 million colour pallet.
According to the leaked specs, the N96 will include a built-in GPS module, DVB-H reception for TV on the move and a TV-out port supporting standard definition resolutions.
A 5-megapixel camera comes with full auto-focus and a dual-LED flash, backed with 16GB of storage which can be increased to an impressive 24GB using a microSD card.
Geo-tagging support is also built in allowing users to employ the camera and GPS to add location information to photographs.
Nokia has also crow-barred Bluetooth 2.0 and 802.11b/g Wi-Fi into what it is calling a "multimedia computer" rather than a mobile phone.
The Nokia N96 is expected to ship in the third quarter of 2008 with a pre-tax price of around €550.
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iPhone-Killer wannabe
Third quarter 2008?that's a long time from now for the next "iPhone-Killer" You don't think that Apple might come out with a new model by then? Nah. And ?550?! Whoa. And here I thot the iPhone was supposed to be expensive.
Posted by Synthmeister, 13 Feb 2008
Leaked?
Hardly leaked...just check out the N Series website, and all the details are there in full!
Posted by Nigel, 15 Feb 2008
so much for the I phone...
it was pretty much a given that nokia would outdo the iphone, as the iphone could barely compete with the crop of mobile phones that were available even at the time of the iphones release, personally i think the iphone was overhyped, as its functions werent really as good as advertised, at least Nokia delivers.
Posted by Steve Shepherd, 27 Feb 2008
Steve Shepherd
Steve Shepherd sounds like a nokia fanboi. This N96 has a QVGA screen .... translation: small resolution. They just top on touch, bluetooth and wifi ... and tag the cellphone as a "multimedia computer" and that's good enough marketing to get some people out there to wait 6 months for technology from last year.
Posted by sovnarkom, 11 Jul 2008