Pricing and Release date (or month) were announced at last night’s event hosted by 3 as a preview of their fall line. Thanks to them we can now estimate the release date in other countries as well.

So after all, our announcement of a shipping date didn’t fall too far from there, it makes sense if the N96 is going to start shipping in the first week of August if it’s going to be available by September.

The price should round 15 British Pounds per month for a contract.

Source: SMS Text News

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Our loved Nokia N96 is coming to a true launch, as our last post points out. Carphone Warehouse is unsure whether they will have it on August or October, but some of our other sources point out that it is going to be this August, and that’s less than 3 weeks away, most probably to head off against the Apple iPhone 3G.

It was Henri Mattila who confirmed that the Nokia N96 would start shipping in the first week of August, and soon more blogs followed releasing their own sources. There were previous dates of launch that pointed out everything from May to July.

The N96 beats the iPhone 3G by far, as you can see in our table of comparisons published in a recent post. The best in this series so far is the HTC Touch Diamond in some criteria, and that too due to specifications comparison. We are quite confident that the N96 will be the best smartphone between these phones thanks to the expertise that Nokia has in releasing advanced flagship Symbian devices.

Many bloggers, including me, are somehow disappointed for the fact that the N96 will not have more features than the ones it already has, but as pointed out by Nick, there are many improvements such as the DVB-h mobile TV receiver, Dual LED flash, large display, 16GB internal memory, Symbian S60 3.2 release with Feature Pack 2, the navi-wheel and built-in geotagging. Kathryn has also spoken about the extensive advantages of the N96, and it is difficult to just be disappointed with the N96. You can’t always be one-sided, now can you? Optimism people!

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The Carphone Warehouse had leaked that the N96 was going to be here in August. Now it changes that date to October, but leaves a page with the date August. This is confusing, but according to our sources, the N96 will start shipping the first week of August, so it’s more probable that it will be here, and most part of the world in October. Don’t forget to pre-order your N96!

Thanks, Spunk

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