Guest contributor Nick Anstee signed up to be one of the first to get a Nokia N96, as part of a limited 'wildlife' run. Read on for his first impressions of the N96, after a couple of days of intensive playing, plus photos of the device and some really nice photo samples taken on the device.
Over to Nick, a self-confessed gadget freak who, sadly, seems to own more phones than I do(!) - heh:

• The screen is great - good colours, good outdoors too (although not tried it yet in sunlight - chance would be a fine thing!)
• The size isn't as large as I'd expected. Admittedly I'm coming to the N96 from the E90, but I was still pleasantly surprised. The N96 is shorter and easier to hold than the Apple iPhone, which I also have.
• Build quality is good, with a solid slide, but the back is plasticky, especially where the stand is, and the whole thing is a fingerprint magnet.
• The camera shutter key is very stiff, and its final 'take photo' stop is well inside the N96's casing.
• The battery life is much better than expected, the N96 lasted a full day of me fiddling around with power hungry activities.
• The music quality is very good indeed, especially over Bluetooth/A2DP.
• The built-in speakers are very loud, a good thing.
• USB is fast, much faster than the N95 8GB or E90.
• I can't get the naviwheel to work. Might be me not knowing how to turn it on, but I've looked everywhere in Settings....
• Browsing the web on a QVGA screen was very disappointing after the E90 - but this was to be expected!
• Some 3rd party apps (e.g. ProfiMail) show glitches - probably a FP2 thing?
• No manual was supplied. :-( But they did throw in a car charger and a T-Shirt :-)
• Switch was buggy and wouldn't let me transfer my data from E90 to N96. I had to use an unofficial iSync plug-in from the 'net to sync data with my Mac instead.
• The camera's very good, here are some photo samples, click each to enlarge/download/print (etc):

Thanks, Nick!


See also (from our earlier coverage of the N96)

Preview of the Nokia N96 from MWC (February 2008)
Video preview of the N96
Nokia N96 Gallery (from the phone's launch)


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