With N96 into the market soon, the price for N95 8G will definitely drop, whether big drop or small drop, it is also good for the consumers who still want the N95 8G. Don't forget that the N96 is still stick with the BL-5F 950mAh battery, which is very poor battery life compare to the 1200mAH BL-6F N95 8G has. Some might take this into consideration. Not everyone need the 16G storage space, so it will be personal preferences when it goes to N95 8G or N96.

This post has been edited by Survivor: Feb 12 2008, 01:10 PM

Well, from paper the N96 battery capacity seems to be bad. But no one really test out the real unit and the real life battery life yet, so it is very hard to say for now. And I do not think it is fair for us to judge Nokia just from the paper. You will never know Nokia might throw in a way better battery management chip inside the new N96. With all the latest semiconductor inside the new N96, the power consumption might be smaller than the current N95 8G. I am pretty sure the engineers in Nokia are paid to do some research. I guess we just have to wait and see.

Well, I am not saying that N95 8G is not a good phone. It is a very good phone . And I am not trying to debate on which is the best phone either . Everyone has their preferences. I am just stating that it is not fair to say that N96 has crappy battery life time and all the negative points about N96 when no one really has the unit and use it yet. It is just all on the paper only for now.

I have credible sources that suggesting N96 is using a totally different hardware than N95/N95 8G/N82. That includes the CPU of the phone, the power management system and even the storage management system. Of cause there are a lot more different in hardware which I just lazy to list. So with all these hardware changes, it might be for good, or who knows it will be getting worst. We will just have to wait and see. Personally I am interested to know how the N96 performs with all the new hardware changes but that ain't mean I am giving up on my N95 though...hahahha