How to remove dust from the N96′s screen

Jonbaker is once again at it, and he has devised a simple way of removing all the dust that is collected on the N96′s display.

Here’s what he says at the forum.

I had a build up of dust under the screen somehow and so decided to clean it. I got the T6 and took out the 4 screws and then carefully pulled off the front cover. But I have just discovered this is not neccessary!

The screen cover actualy comes off with ease using a little tool. Nokia have one called the SRT6 and is £8 from here:

http://www.phatphones.com/nokia-srt6-phone-opening-tool.htm

What a rip off! I went into a little phone shop where i work and got one very similar made by BAKU, (dunno who they are :confused:) for £1

Anyhow. All you do is slide the tool in between the screen and the phones silver edge and run it up and down, this releases the catches. I started on the right hand side, then to the top, then down the left side. Once the catches are releases the front screen comes out.

Then the battle begins! Getting rid of all dust! everytime i put it back on there was a bit waving at me Highly annoying considering the amount of films i watch on my phone. I got there in the end though.

Also, this must mean that the part is replaceable if it becomes servely scratched, i’m sure the part number is on it but i didn’t make a note of it.

The part has some sticky backing on it near the top around the ear speaker but this comes off easy and doesn’t effect it’s stability once back on.

I hope someone finds this useful if you get this problem

I’m pretty sure many will, Jon, thanks!

Night Effect or…N96?

The Samsung Armani Night Effect is now on sale in the UK from 9th January this year. Samsung remains trying to get territory to Nokia and the new Armani phone might directly competes with the best Nokia cell phones. It happened with P520 an now it’s the “night effect” phone (M7500).

In a first glance the Night Effect might seem to be a simple low-end user mobile phone for Emporio Armani fanatics, but when we have a closer look we understand the words “Night Effect” and how great is this phone. This device has a OLED screen which shows the colors more similar to reality than N96 and surrounding the screen it has a light that produces that “night effect”. The user is able to set the light color and also it’s related functions.

Lets see the mobile phone features:

• 2.2? QVGA screen
• 3.2 Megapixel Camera
• Music Hot keys
• 3G Equipped
• Bluetooth Connectivity
• Media player with Video Recorder
• FM Radio
• 3.5mm Audio Jack

Do you think a 3.2 megapixel camera is able to make the Emporio Armani fight for a place against N96? Or simply they act throught different market segments?

Will 5800 substitute Nokia N96?

Nokia N96 was the device that Nokia promoted in the last Christmas, all over the world we saw huge campaigns with this smartphone. Many were expecting to buy Nokia 5800 XpressMusic in 2008 but Nokia has announced that will start selling the device in Europe, first in UK, from 23rd January this year.

Does this means that Nokia N96 will lose market having the 5800 available? It’s cheaper, it’s touchscreen, it’s xpress music, has a great camera and GPS built-in. Well, probably Nokia will simply raise the sales.

In my point of view, N96 is focused for high-end users, like those who would buy HTC Touch HD, it’s  expensive and a great mobile phone and at the level of Nokia n96. While Nokia 5800 will be sold for medium-end users, the price is over 300 euros, but might probably drop as time goes by to …200, 199 (hehe) or even 149 euros, so then, we would be able to really consider 5800 a medium-end mobile phone.

Having two great handsets in the market, N96 (..and futurely the N97) competing against HTC Touch Diamond, Touch HD and Blackberry Storm/Bold and the Nokia 5800 Xpress Music, Nokia might get a big percentage of those 2 markets, high-end  and medium-end users.

And as you already know, nowadays what can makes a successful device isn’t the device itself but all the advertisement investment that is made. We are in a big crisis which analysts predict it will increase in 2009 and we must have in mind that companys will invest less money in marketing and advertising, blackberry and HTC must cut those costs and the same will happen to Nokia, but as Nokia is a giant they are able to always mantain the promotion of some of their best handsets.

Three Winter themes for the Nokia N96

Winter is still going strong, Spring is far away. For me, it’s summer.

The themes might not be so suitable for me then, but for you, three choices should fulfil this season.

Winter 2009 by dsma has three versions, all with snow, SVG capability, and customized icon pack. S60 v3 FP1 and FP2 phones are supported.

Download them at BRThemes

Would you recommend this theme? Do you have others that are of the same colours  Want to know a bit more about themes before you buy Nokia N96? Comment here, or at the themes forum!

Is 16GB memory on the N96 enough for you? Make it 32GB by clicking here!

Nokia N96 app: Google Calendar

I haven’t even downloaded this yet, I’m first catering to you. If you use Google Calendar (I do), you will know how useful this is.

I use Google Calendar because it gives me SMS and email reminders to events, and it allows me to share events with other people. We all have the S60 calendar, but having something this Web 2.0-ish, is much better.

Unfortunately, the app is still in beta, so you’ll find it slightly buggy, but here are the features for now:

• calendar filtering
• events creation
• event searching
• events location map viewing

And here are the known issues:

• Some Nokia Series60 1st and 2nd edition devices have problems in handling HTTP redirects: I’m working on a fix, that will be available in a future GCal release
• You can now specify ‘@gmail.com’ part in your account name, and authentication will fail no more. Also, if you’re using a mapped domain with Google, you can now use your hosted account data as well.

Download it at Google

Would you recommend this application? Do you have others that do the same job?  Do you want to know more about applications before buying Nokia N96? Comment here, or at the applications forum!

[via DailyMobile, Nokia Nseries and Symbian S60 3rd]

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V12 firmware for NAM Nokia N96 users

The v12 firmware version has deleted almost every bug from the Nokia N96 users worldwide. Now it’s the turn for the North American users to get the same treatment. I’m not sure why you had to wait so long, but the main point is that it’s that the wait is over!

The version is 12.043, and the model number is N96-3. If you trouble updating, follow this link to the forum, and read the sticky tutorials.

[via Symbian-Freak]

Nokia N96 theme: Colourfull by NaHiD

Mike Macias brings us a theme with icons from S60 5th edition, it’s called Colourfull, it’s made by NaHiD, and has an icon pack built by Flahorn.

The theme has colours of red to yellow, reminding us of the sunset, and the wallpaper looks like an equaliser from Windows Media Player.

Mike noted a small bug with the theme, in which you cannot see dates on the calendar without highlighting them.

Download it at NaHiD

Would you recommend this theme? Do you have others that are of the same colours  Want to know a bit more about themes before you buy Nokia N96? Comment here, or at the themes forum!

[via The N82 Blog]