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That's the point, dude - no point taking our cases to the manufacturer's customer service. They're pretty much bored people with nothing to do. I'd rather do a DIY, if I can.
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Posted: 2009-04-22 18:05:01
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A few months ago i had a go at my mates N96, and wasnt very impressed with it, my N81 felt like a tank next to it, the N96 has some serious light leakage everywhere, and UI speed was slower than my N81's, all your problems seem to be common N96 probs, softwarewise Nokia are releasing V20.045 soon which adds quite a few features and bug fixes to the N96 so if you want to you can wait a little longer otherwise id say sell it and get a N79, N85, E71 or wait for N86. Above comments: N96 is in NO WAY a N95 re shelled, if you knew ANYTHING about its hardware you'd know it contains a very powerful Video Accelerator, it can handle very high bit rates and frame rates, lol, a lot more than any SE on the market, unfortunetly NOKIA got a big head messed everything else up in the N96, its a device aimed at Mobile TV,Movies,Gaming and Music, its no way like a N95 IMO.Here in South Africa, Nokia give 2years free GPS Navigation, so i guess it depends on your region, would have been nice if they had advertised that. Rather go to your nearest Nokia store and demand a replacement.
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Posted: 2009-04-22 18:06:20
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About customer service: i had sent my N81 in to get its flex ribbon replaced, Nokia were kind enough to completely replace the housing of the whole phone, when doing this they found that my slider was starting to scratch the keypad so they replaced my keypad and slider mechanism as well, when they were done they called me to say i can fetch it. So personaly i cant complain about their service. very sorry to hear about your experience.
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Posted: 2009-04-22 18:19:12
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@GUCCI.011
GUCCI, please. No one was comparing the N96 to any SE piece here. So if the hardware is that powerful, why is it so stupid? If it is that much of a media monster, why give it a crappy engine to go with? You said so yourself - its twin looks-wise (N81) can eat it any day. N96 IS an attempt to bite at N95 8GB's market to keep the latter's price in a stable range. It's what I would call a "hero" phone - even Nokia knows that it won't sell that well, but they still release it because they also know that Nokiaheads will buy it anyway. It sold like hotfrickincakes here among the rich guys and know what? Not even 1 month and I can see used units on the shelves of my local phoneshops.

If I have to give my own 2 cents, I still prefer a C702 even though it's leagues below. Give me an N96 for free and I'll sell it right away, scoring enough money to walk off with a used INNOV8 (and two spare batteries).
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Posted: 2009-04-22 18:21:12
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All the media-monstery was presumably required by its DVB-H credentials, but it was very clear well before the phone's release that DVB-H was pretty much a dead duck, at least for now, so they would have done well to hold back and retool it IMO, take out some of that unused hardware and drop the price accordingly. A cheaper, cut-price "new" N95 for the masses would have probably attracted more interest.

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Posted: 2009-04-22 18:29:57
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Blimey, there's definitely no improvement from the N95 in that department then!

I like the idea of a phone with built in sat-nav, because frankly I don't need it often enough to warrant buying a dedicated sat-nav unit but it would be a useful feature for me.

Thanks for the tip-off, my next upgrade will most certainly not be a N96!
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Posted: 2009-04-22 18:37:06
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Gtr83
I cant agree completely,the N96 is almost like the whole N93 scenario, they introduced new hardware with the N93, they knew it wouldnt sell and so made a N73 which was cheaper, now they made N96 to test this new hardware and N85/N79 as well as 5800xm for the masses, and look how well the latter is doing. The general chipset of N96 is an oldish ARM9 architecture STMicroelectronics CPU, it maxs out at 392mhz,but brings excellent video technology, and im sure Nokia realised it ate a lota power at above 300mhz so they underclocked it and compromised the speed, either way N96 was never going to be that great unless they had put in a larger batt and clocked that CPU a little higher. Its simply an overpriced public prototype IMO and unfortunetly many paid a lot to get their hands on it. Agree with what Boinng said.

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Posted: 2009-04-22 18:49:47
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Im not saying Nokia are bad i like Nokia but no longer as much as i love SE But Nokia releasing a phone which they knew was going to be that bad and letting people sign upto contracts to get it is bad. People are then stuck with a phone that Nokia knew was crap. Very bad.
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Posted: 2009-04-22 19:07:00
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I'm quite suprised that people in this thread are SUPRISED that the N96 is so bad, I thought this was common knowledge now?
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Posted: 2009-04-22 23:13:02
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There gotta be a better way to let our voices be heart. The entire world is going downhill, because of compnies don't give a crap about the customers anymore and are only concerned about the bottom line. In todays world things should get easier not harder. It is like in the Matrix (the movie), but instead of being hooked up as a battery compnies trying to hook up to your wallet, regardless of the end result. Greed is a powerfull motivator.
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Posted: 2009-04-22 23:36:19
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