Headlines - Nokia N96 launching October 1st

[HEXUS]

Been holding out for a Nokia N96? Just a little longer, Nokia has confirmed that its flagship handset will be available October 1st.

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[streetster]

balls... looks like i wont be upgrading my N73 to a N96 then eh o2... maybe things will have changed come December, fingers crossed

[Vimeous]

My N95 is a superb phone and meets my needs.
The iPhone is also a superb phone but does not do what I want.
If the N96 meets my needs and doesn't appear on O2 one of the companies will have lost a loyal customer of 10 years+.
Sadly I think it'll be Nokia loosing out as T-Mobile and Vodaphone have annoyed me once too often and I wouldn't go near Orange or 3 customer service with a bargepole!

[Merson]

Great, been looking forward to this phone for ages, shame it doesn't have a 8mp camera. At the moment im been leaning towards this but the c905 also looks great.

[m19c]

phone looks great, i've got the n95 atm best phone i've had so far, i always stick to nokia's

[Funkstar]

Originally Posted by Merson

Great, been looking forward to this phone for ages, shame it doesn't have a 8mp camera. At the moment im been leaning towards this but the c905 also looks great.

Why do you want an 8mp sensor in something that size?

The optics and image processing aren't going to be a patch on a regular camera so increasing from 5mp to 8mp isn't going to increase the quality. In fact you could easily see a reduction is quality. Squeezing the extra pixels into the sensor means eax photosite is smaller, this means less light hitting each site. Less light means you need to amplify the signal more so you get more noise in the image. To remove the noise you need more image processing reducing sharpness and definition. So you could easily end up with a lower qualty image and larger files.

Completely pointless in my opinion. Different if they were to use compact camera sensors and real lenses, but even then, don't get sucked into the Megapixel Myth.