The Nokia N95 was certainly a revolution in the mobile phone market, combining components never before seen in one package, which actually fitted inside one's pocket.

Nokia's flagship phones have been defined by the model N9x since the time NSeries was made commercially available. The N96 was expected to live up to the NSeries reputation as well.

Nokia got itself a tough crowd when it came up with every-enthusiast's dream phone. Not continuing to revolutionize the market every time it released a flagship device, had everyone's eyebrows raised to a matter that might actually have a simple explanation: the market might not need a revolution.

Like any other company that runs on investors, Nokia looks for profits, rather than to please the ultimate consumer. Addressing the market in general is far more important than having a phone that has it all. The Nokia N96 was designed to be a market winner, and not another N95. Nokia actually has a reputation problem when it comes to software reliability. The N95, just like many other phones that run on the S60 software platform, contained too many bugs that became insupportable to the user, and only after a long waiting period, they updated it with bug-free software.

It is important to actually look at the N96's competitors, all of them seem to have something that beats the N96, either feature-wise, or just in design terms. The Apple iPhone, Samsung i900 Omnia, and Samsung i8510 INNOV8, all have 16GB of built-in memory. The Samsung i8510 INNOV8 and the Sony Ericsson C905 Cyber-shot have an 8 megapixel camera. The Samsung i900 Omnia and the Apple iPhone have a touchscreen display. The N96 in its exclusivity, has a kickstand, a 2.8" display, which is smaller than most of its competitors, it also has 16GB of built-in memory with support for a microSD memory card, a 3.5mm audiovisual jack for its multimedia-focused properties, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, and a mediocre 950mAh battery. Full specifications below:

Nokia N96 Technical Specs

Operating System:

Symbian OS v9.3

Developer Platform:

S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2

Frequency Band:

GSM 850

GSM 900

GSM 1800

GSM 1900

WCDMA 2100

WCDMA 900

Regional Availability:

Africa

Americas

Europe

Middle East

North America

Display:

Resolution: 240 x 320

Color Depth: 24 bit

Memory:

Max User Storage: 16 GB

NAND Memory: 256 MB

SDRAM Memory: 128 MB

Memory Card: Micro SD

Max Memory Card Size: 8 GB

Memory Card Feature: Hot Swap

Unlimited Heap size

Unlimited Jar size

Network Data Support:

HSDPA

WCDMA

EGPRS

GPRS

HSCSD

CSD

Dual Transfer Mode (MSC 11)

OMA Device Management:

OMA Client Provisioning v1.1

OMA Device Management v1.1.2

OMA Device Management v1.2

OMA Data Synchronization:

OMA Data Synchronization v1.2

GPS Features:

A-GPS

Local Connectivity:

Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR

Bluetooth Stereo Audio

Micro USB

Mini Stereo Plug 3.5mm

Nokia Audio Visual Plug 3.5mm

Nokia microUSB Cable CA-101

UPnP

USB 2.0 High-Speed

USB Mass Storage

Video Cable Nokia CA-75U

WLAN

WLAN Support:

802.11b/g

WEP

WPA

WPA2 (AES/TKIP)

VoIP:

Nokia VoIP 2.1

Bluetooth Profiles:

A2DP, AVRCP, BIP, DUN, FTP, GAP, GAVDP, GOEP, HFP, HSP, OPP, SAP, SPP

Java Technology:

CLDC 1.1

eSWT UI API

JSR 135 Mobile Media API

JSR 172 Web Services API

JSR 177 Security and Trust Services API

JSR 179 Location API

JSR 180 SIP API

JSR 184 Mobile 3D Graphics API

JSR 185 JTWI

JSR 205 Wireless Messaging API

JSR 226 Scalable 2D Vector Graphics API

JSR 234 Advanced Multimedia Supplements

JSR 248 Mobile Service Architecture for CLDC

JSR 75 FileConnection and PIM API

JSR 82 Bluetooth API

MIDP 2.1

Nokia UI API

Java Verified Root Certificate:

UTI Root

Symbian Certificates:

A, B, C, D

Browser:

HTML over TCP/IP

S60 OSS Browser

WAP 2.0

XHTML over TCP/IP

Flash Lite:

Flash Lite 3.0

Messaging:

IM

MMS+SMIL

SMS

Email Protocol:

IMAP4

POP3

SMTP

Email Solution:

OMA E-mail Notification v1.0

Digital Rights Management:

OMA DRM Forward Lock

OMA DRM v1.0

OMA DRM v2.0

Windows Media DRM 10

DRM Delivery Method:

HTTP Download

MMS

OMA Download v1.0

Camera:

Resolution: 2592 x 1944

Sensor: CMOS 5.0 Megapixels

Focal length 5.2 mm

F-Stop/Aperture f/2.8

Focus range 10 cm to infinity

Image Format: JPEG/Exif

Feature: Auto Focus, Carl Zeiss Optics, Flash, Red-Eye Reduction, Self Timer, Video Stabilization

Video Resolution: 640 x 480

Video Frame Rate: 30 fps

Video Zoom: 4 x

Video Format: H.263, MPEG-4

Secondary Camera:

Resolution: 640 x 480

Image Format: JPEG

Video Format: H.263

Video Features:

Video Editor

Video Player

Video Recorder

Video Ringtones

Video Sharing

Video Streaming

Video Formats:

3GPP formats (H.263)

Flash Video

H.264/AVC

MPEG-4

RealVideo 7,8,9/10

Audio Features:

Audio Equalizer

Audio Recording AAC

Audio Streaming

Music Player

Stereo

Audio Formats:

AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, MP3, MP4, M4A, WMA, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, Mobile XMF, SP-MIDI, MIDI Tones (poly 64), RealAudio 7,8,10, True tones, WAV

Document Formats:

Excel, PDF, Powerpoint, Word, Zip

Graphics Formats:

BMP, EXIF, GIF87a, GIF89a, JPEG, JPEG 2000, PNG, WBMP

Extra Features:

Acceleration Sensor

DVB-H 1.0

GPS

Internet Radio

On-Demand Paging

Open C API’s

PoC (Push-to-talk over Cellular)

Stereo FM RDS Radio

Stereo Handsfree Speakers

Still Image Editor

SyncML

Themes

TV Out

Visual Radio

Keypad Description:

3 Labeled Soft Keys

5-way Scrolling

Grid Key Mat

Product ID:

0×20002D82

Power Management:

2.0mm Charger Connector

Battery Capacity:

BL-5F 3.7V 950 mAh

Talk Time (estimated):

GSM: up to 3.67 hours

WCDMA: up to 2.5 hours

Standby Time (estimated):

GSM: up to 9.1 days

WCDMA: up to 8.3 days

Size:

103 x 55 x 20 mm

Weight:

125 g

Messaging Feature:

OMA Instant Messaging and Presence Service v1.1

OMA Multimedia Messaging Service v1.2

Web Service:

Liberty Alliance ID-WSF 1.1

OMA WS Network Identity 1.0

WS-I Basic Profile 1.0/1.1

Source: Forum Nokia

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