Nokia n96 Theme Review – Highway

Name: Highway

Creator:  alfa

Summary: We have been reviewing nice themes here at Nokia N96 and this is one more theme for your Nokia N96 smartphone, like Green Deluxe, and our friends at Nokia N86 have also been reviewing nice themes both for Nokia N96 and Nokia N86. Everybody wants there phone to look different every now and again but finding a nice them can take a bit of time. Well here’s my recent favorite one at the moment, usually I like themes with nature but this caught my eye. Obviously its a digital image and that could put a few people off, which is fine and no matter what your taste alfa has probably created one to suit you. Anyway this them looks very nice and clear its a bit busy in the background but that’s just more to look at. This also come with a very nice set of icons which suits must application well.

Overview: I can understand that our users would want to see the time when their phone is locked but that should limit down their themes choice. If you still what to see the time from say cClock or any of the other clock themes the all you have to do is apply that themes screen saver file which is a .swi (or something close to that).

Download Highway by alfa here

If you want to discuss your views on this them the view the forum

Nokia N96 expanding community

First I would like to thank every forum member for their time and expertise, without the level of dedication nokian96.net would not be what it is today.  With every week that passes more and more people are joining the forum and adding to the number of people that have resolved their problems with the n96. The forum has now reached over 2000 members and is growing rapidly, mostly we try to help members with issues and inform members about latest software also we provide a suitable place to discuss any topic involving the n96.

Now with the numbers of members rapidly expanding it is time to expand the community, so I’m here to announce that there is a Nokia n96 community now on Facebook. This will be hopefully another way for us to reach out to any other N96 users and anyone who is planning to buy one. There has never been a better time to buy a Nokia n96 especially with the quality of help and guidance available. The Nokia n96 community on Facebook is here to help you so don’t be a stranger.

We want to get every N96 owner to come and see what potential their phone has and come and join the N96 community. No matter what the problem is many of our users will have guidance and advice to solve most problems from cleaning the dirt from under the screen to fixing a “bricked” phone. With every user creates new problems and new solutions that are very specific to n96 and your help could help many others so come along and join both the forum and facebook community.

Nokia N96 has started shipping!

Nokia has confirmed that the Nokia N96 has started shipping, and by that, it means that we are closer and closer to the release date.

As you should know, if you visit our N96 specifications or features page, the phone will have a 5 megapixel camera with Dual LED flash, autofocus, video recording in DVD quality, and a Carl Zeiss optics lens. A 16GB internal memory is bundled with support of a microSD memory card, which could add up to 24GB and in future, 32GB! With the available 16GB memory, you can store up to 40 hours of video.

The video played back can be of MPEG4 format, Flash Video, and Windows Media Video.

You can listen to music through its 3D stereo speakers or connect your speakers, or headphones through its 3.5mm audio jack, or through Bluetooth. There is also Internet Radio, Visual Radio, and whole podcast directory.

The N96 will have a A-GPS  receiver, and will feature geo-tagging capabilities, which will be just fantastic with the excellent camera. If you haven’t tried geotagging, you should with a phone such as the Nokia N78 or the N82, which will display where the picture was exactly taken on the Maps application.

The phone will also support DVB-h, but the mobile TV technology isn’t available yet in most countries, and in UK, it will only be available by 2012, as you can read in this Nokia N96 Review.

As the N96 has a huge 2.8″ display with QVGA resolution (240×320 pixels), and very loud 3D stereo speakers it will come with an included movie, and for the South Africa version, it will be Transformers. You can further enjoy this by placing the N96 on a table, supported by its own kickstand.

On the connectivity side, the N96 has WLAN, HSDPA, Bluetooth, and USB 2.0.

In a press release issued today, Jonas Geust, Vice President, Nokia Nseries said that “The Nokia N96 is mobile entertainment at its best, a fitting flagship for our Nseries range. It defines convergence by blending phone and multimedia options seamlessly with the unique Nokia Nseries dual slider that makes discovering and sharing experiences easy. Watch live TV and video, take high quality photos and geotag them to specific locations or directly upload them online via the fast internet connection – it is all about taking mobile entertainment and communication to the next level.”

The price will be of 750 Euros without subsidies or taxes, and we’ve noticed that there are plenty of websites offering the Nokia N96, between other mobile phone deals, and on this particular website, you can compare mobile phone prices, and even post your own reviews, or just read the ones written by the editor.

Nokia N96 released with 3G support in the US

Recently we wrote here at NokiaN96.net about the FCC approval of Nokia N96. Yesterday it was announced that Nokia will start distributing their device to the retailers in the 4Q this year, which means that they are trying to push the market in this Christmas in the USA. As we know, the marketing strategy is similar in the rest of the world, as well as the advert produced by Nokia that unites all religions, all ethnics for an universal release – In one word, Christmas is the target!

Nokia yesterday announced that the Nokia N96 will be available for high-speed 3G HSDPA networks used in the U.S. starting from the 4Q this year. This news were expected, but they would always need confirmation from FCC. If the support wouldn’t be allowed, then we could think in the end of the competition between N96 an iPhone 3G. Thanks FCC!

The already widely tested Nokia N96 can be used to purchase and download movies, television shows and other video content on their PCs and upload them to their device, besides being available to easily download content from their devices.

With the integration in Ovi services, the Nokia N96 enables users to upload images, videos and other content using the this service, it also allows  navigation across town and country with Nokia Maps 2.0, or to play N-Gage games tournament with friends.

According to the press communication we received from Nokia, there will be 3 months of Nokia Maps 2.0 free navigation, as well as a voucher to purchase a full version of the N-Gage racing title Asphalt 3: Street Rules. This is only for the US package.

The Nokia N96 is expected for an estimated price of $900.

Nokia N96 released in India before iPhone

We are already in August and as you all know, the N96 is being released all over the world. Yesterday it was launched in India in big event with high media coverage. The journalists call the N96 the “iPhone killer”.

Will that be true? I really don’t know, but Nokia is taking the advantage of time, their  device reached India before iPhone 3G and will crossover India from 20th August selling 2000 Nokia N96 with a special price in a special offer, if you buy it then you will be one of the firsts buying the Nokia N96!

As you know, N96 is the first ever mobile device to offer a memory size of 16GB expandable to 32 GB through an external micro SD card (32GB! That was my old PC memory). I think I could store more than 60 hours of videos and movies with high quality (or more…).

I won’t buy one of this N96 in August, because I am not from India, but in fact I will buy when it is released in September. In many countries September is the month of release and it will also be for India.

Consumers from India will have an exclusive application, allowing them to track their handset if the device is lost or stolen, but also create a backup for the phone data via the Internet. That should make the 950mAh battery last fewer hours than it lasts already.

Nokia N96 will launch at 15th September in Netherlands

The rumour is now confirmed, and 15th September in another release date for Nokia N96 smart phone. According to webwereld, there was an agreement between Nokia and KPN, meaning that KPN will be the first provider of Nokia N96 in Netherlands. The agreement between KPN and Nokia is logical, because the N96 supports the mobile TV network (DVB-h) that KPN released earlier this year.

After the release by KPN, the other providers will also sell the mobile phone, there are no exclusivity rights. If you live in Netherlands you may buy the Nokia N96 from other providers. The agreement only focuses “the first provider”.

In July later, Nokia held a momentary action  with World Wildlife Fund, trying to save the the red panda in Nepal by selling Nokia N96 for 759 euros. Nobody know how many Nokias were sold from the 96 available…but this price remains as an indicator for the one KPN will use, because the source could not reveal an estimated price.

Anyway, KPN have just begun advertising with Google Adwords, and we are able to see when we search for “nokia n96″ at google.nl. You can just pre-order, you are not allowed to pay because KPN have not yet fixed a price. The only things you need to give them is your name and e-mail! That’s it!

3, UK network, announces N96 release date for September

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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Nokia N96 Ad Spot

Well. For those who haven’t seen it yet, here is the Nokia N96 Advertising Spot.

N96 not released! Was it a lie?

Not at all… We were really confident that the release date was going to be 7th May. Turns out that we were maybe too optimistic. Truth is that we had a media launch that day, but that was it, not a shipping date or a retail date. Although in this conference with Nokia we managed to dig the true shipping date, or should I say…shipping week?

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N96 will ship with Transformers

Today at the launch in South Africa, Nokia stated in a press release that the Nokia N96 will ship to South Africa with the latest Transformers movie embedded in the devices’ memory.

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