It's always interesting seeing long term tests of phones, i.e. from people who have lived with a device intensively for a while. In this case, Symbian Smashpop has lived with the Nokia N96 for a month (and no, I still haven't even seen one - go figure) and here presents a list of loves and hates. In other news, Vaibhav has been trying out the DVB-H TV in the N96 and comes away very impressed.
Read on in the full article.
DVB-H TV is a total no go. Its never going to catch up on the N96, since most people cannot get it in their countries.
And by the time they can, the N96 will very much be beaten by other phones.
Dont agree with the big screen comment - its impossible to get a screen that size on a phone thats not horribly chunky -N95, and N96. Unless of course, its a touchscreen.
And what about those that prefer candybar style phones?
See the impact of being able to receive Freeview type DVB-H TV broadcasts without an external aerial inside a moving train made on this new N96 owner when he strayed into an area with DVB-H transmission. DVB-H is YesYes please for me with Multiple digital channels, Electronic Program Guide and channel interaction.
http://thesymbianblog.com/2008/10/20...-with-the-n96/
DVB-H launch schedule
http://www.dvb-h.org/services.htm
Looks like DVB-H logjam is starting to move with Austria, Finland, India, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland and others already launched.
Discovery of new Streamed TV services is also being improved. Accessed via Media/VideoCentre/Add NewService on N95 and N82. With Google Video, Jamster, RTHK, Reuters, Sony Pictures, NeoArena, RocketBoom, FreeBe, RoofTop Comedy, Youtube and Zoovision being added.
Come off it. The Media/VideoCentre/Add NewService on the N95 has hardly changed in two years. It's the same old stuff, very little of which I'm interested in.
Anyway I enjoy, BBC iplayer style, streaming of video from the listed video services on my phone. Having first made sure it is on free WiFi or Unlimited contract 3 or 3.5G.
The Media/VideoCentre/Add NewService seems improved and added to since I updated the N95 and N82 to latest 3.00 firmware.
You can see the Video Centre service catalog on the web at
http://videoservicedirectory.nokia.com/servicecatalogue/nokia/test/
Additional Media/VideoCentre/Options/AddFeed can be added yourself
ZooVision http://www.zoovision.com was added using their
http://www.zoovision.com/zoovisionnokia.xml
DVB-H broadcasts, Freeview style, is what I will be most interested to see.
Hope your not in the UK then, as your going to be waiting till 2012.
okay,the N96 is a little bit slow sometimes and it crashes ones every day,but that are the only negative sides. As a gps,it's good. As a media player, it's as good as ipod touch. As a camera, it's the best you can get on a mobile phone. I tried the camera from the samsung innov8 and it's for 95% the same, and the quality is the same. I'm uploading my pictures from the N96 to the computer at the moment and I hate the nokia software for the pc, it realy sucks
afther all, I'm glad I got the N96 (I've been in Amsterdam today and dvb-h works fine, if you have it in your country...
Anyway I am excited about DVB-H
and the UK, Daily Mail says parts of UK may start to receive Freeview style, DVB-H by 2009.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1061726/Weve-promised-mobile-TV-seventies-actually-happening.html
Here is someone on youtube in Netherlands demonstrating watching DVB-H broadcast as a passenger in a car without any additional aerial on an N96.
It is a pity he does not get round to demonstrate the TV Electronic Program Guide or the Tivo like functions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11LNHQ1Lw2Y