This is a link to an article about the improvements made to the N96
Higher capacity battery.
What a surprise. Gee I didn't see that one coming! ;-)
Better build quality
Gee, that one was a surprise too.
I'm taking the piss. Click here to see an earlier article I wrote.
It's a shame that Nokia did away with the plum colour of the case. I quite liked that.
The increase in memory is an interesting point.
This article seems to think that it's a good idea to expand the internal memory at the expense of the SD card slot. Why the hell did Nokia remove the card slot?
Was it the room the carriage took inside the phone?
Was the card slot using memory address space that Nokia needed to release for the extra memory?
Is it an operating system failing?
The thing I like about the SD card is that it's removable. Not it's capacity.
I have two cards that hang from a key ring, and I swap them around my various devices.
I don't keep pictures or video, or word docs in the device cause the data is the important thing. Not the device.
Strangely enough, the device is much more likely to be stolen, or lost, or left somewhere.
I'd much rather have two four gig removable SD cards, then one big slab of memory in the device.
Bigger screen
Nice! But I'm sure as heck not plonking down another grand in cash for a phone that still has a way to go before it's where it should have been at the first release.
And for the stuff that still concerns me…
I wonder if the redesigned dpad has a better ‘feel?’
Does anyone know if the new version can be charged from a USB connection? Not the tiny little easily damaged micro plug!
The 128MB RAM pisses me off. They should have done that for the first version already. I feel cheated, others should suffer the same memory troubles as me. I don't really mind the bigger screen or battery. My phone looks sleeker and has tv-out for a really big screen. The battery does not worry me at all. There are lot's of usbconnectors at work, in the car, at home. Altough they could release a batery upgrade for the older models, it should not be difficult to release a new backcover.
ReplyDeleteThe 8GB SDRAM for the N95-3 probabely takes most of the addressable SDRAM space such there is not sufficient adress space left for an SD-card. And yeah, syncing 8GB with 990kB/s becoms a bit sloooooowwwwww... I'd rather stick with the microSD slot.
The redesigned d-pad seems to be a bit smaller thus likely more troublesome. Unless you are a fem. I kind a like the micro powerplug. It is compatible with my Nokia bluetooth headset charger. 1 Charger, 2 devices. yeah!
I just wanna be able to plug my phone into a PC and get it to recharge the battery at the same time that it's syncing the data ;-)
ReplyDeleteSo? Either use on of those usb-cables that split of the powerconnector and you can. Or two usb-cables ;-) I know it is not perfect, but there are better things to fix first. Like actually setting the jpg-compression to a level that the 5 MPixel pictures actually have grassleaves in the shade of a tree instead of some blurry green smudges. And so on...
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