Damn 3k for a phone... I think nokia overprice this phone....

hah! i3g not enuff for u also ya?

there's premium price to pay to be among the first to own new products. just like N95 few years back. how much does it cost now? not even half the price... expect the same with N96. but i'm more interested with N85 and N79

Was contemplating between this, Touch Pro and Omnia. Remembered my hatred for WinblowsBlowbile, so the choice was obvious. Innov8 is nowhere to be seen, plus Samsung's UI is hideous. What's left?

so have u checked out umobile's mobile tv price? care to share? cos im interested too

I have an N95 and a stupid feature which I don't like is about the call log. I cannot delete a specific call/sms log and can only do so for everything at one go. I'm not sure if N96 has the same silly feature?

One feature lacking in the S60 FP2 3rd Edition is the ability to display caller ID + phone number simultaneously when a call comes in. Its confusing when your friend has two mobile numbers and you don't know which one he is calling from. SE displays both. Iphone is the worst as it wouldn't display the name unless the "+6" prefix is removed from the contact (DiGi only).

It looks like I'll be having the same problem if I switch to N96 then? Sometimes I only need to delete a single line of call/sms, etc and not all but this cannot be done on my N95.

YOYO...
NICE PHONE...
HOPE CAN GET ONE....

I was looking through a couple of different N96 review online and they are showing different versions of accessing LiveTV on their N96. One had it accessed via pressing the media button on the N96, while another is accessed via an app icon buried inside the many pages in the N96. The current built on N96 I have only have it accessible via the media key on the N96, and no way whatsoever to do so via the latter method. The problem here is, accessing LiveTV this way requires downloading the EPG (electronic programme guide) from U Mobile, and that results in a "fail to download" error all the time. Yes, I have subscribed to their U38 postpaid package and was told that LiveTV subscription is instantaneous, not like having to wait for a few hours to get 3G services. (BTW, U38 package gives me 2 month free unlimited 3G service, which is miles better than the current Celcom package I am using. Full bars inside the house.)

So there it is. I find it weird that their N77 on display running Live TV with no hitches whatsoever, and it's running the same Symbian 3rd Ed. I'm beginning to suspect either one of these two things:- The software/apps responsible to access LiveTV is not running as it should, OR U Mobile profiled only those cellphones supported to work under their Mobile LiveTV service, and not include a generalised profile for all DVB-H capable equipments. FYI, DVB equipments are not restricted to only cellphones, I've been to Germany and Italy where TV stations have moved away from hideous analogue antennaes and use DVB set-top boxes to deliver digital terrestrial TV channels. It just so happens that the N96 is as capable as these set-top boxes.

got question here...TV-online is it applicable to U-Mobile users only?...how about other telco(s)?...are they offering accessing the TV-online?...

This is NOT TV online, which by that I assume you mean using 3G/EDGE service to precache/buffer the shows before they load, that is streaming TV. DVB-H stands for Digital Video Broadcast Handheld, and this is digital TV reception live on your handheld device. Channel changes are instantaneous, and yes, there are multiple channels available. In the case of U Mobile, they are TV1, TV3, NTV7, 8TV, Trace TV, Channelnews Asia, U Mobile TV and Bloomberg.

so you're saying any telco(s) can access the TV-online feature?...

Sigh....

If you want to use TV at home , what do you need? An antennae right? You subscribe to the AllMightyGod 777-line also, your cellphone got no DVB-H antennae, how are you going to get the digital broadcast? Stop thinking in terms of streaming or download, and start thinking in terms of your Astro, minus the crappy no-coverage-when-raining status. DVB-H is less attentuated, therefore less affected by weather conditions.

So, in normal, average-Joe , layman terms:-

Mau LiveTV? You punya cellphone ada DVB-H antennae? Tada kalu, itu LiveTV tabley tengok la macha!

This is not TV-online, ala Digi/Maxis/Celcom with whatever download/streaming offering they used to have, that require consistent network connection, and uninterrupted as well. One guy next to you turns on his cellphone and uses the same network as you do, and watch your streaming TV-online chug and cough and choke like an asthmatic old man. DVB-H signals are like your TV signals, only digital. Welcome to the future.

even simpler explanation,

DVB-T= receive subscribed TV signal, no internet connection required. example like Astro.

MobileTV= stream video via data connection (EDGE, 3G, WiFi, etc). normally only charged for data transfer. example like watching youtube online on phone.

get it?

owh?...ok2...understood...thanks for the explanation...

N96 owner reporting for duty

so any short review?

it seems more and more n96 owner reporting in...the first post should be edit...
so any review(s) to share with?...

local Astro support DVB-T??