Exterior – front cover
There are lots of useful gadgets in the box besides the phone. Even the manual is cool, there are separate ones for N-Gage, OVI, the phone and there is a getting started guide, so we get about 200 pages of material on the whole. Besides the phone there is a headset made of two parts, a USB cable, a TV-out cable, a charger and – wow! – a car charger, which doesn’t cost a lot, but it’s great that they have included it.
N96 is quite a large brick. It has increased in width and height, but it’s 3 mm slimmer than N95 8 GB, which is not too much, but considering the other two size changes it provides a completely different character to the phone. There is one more reason to this: the sliding front cover is not such a slim piece of plastic anymore, but it’s a much more massive thing. This increases the feeling of quality, and although the cover is still not rock solid, it has some play only if forced really hard.
The display is huge, the QVGA resolution might even be a bit too low for the 2.8” diagonal. Still, I can’t complain about it and the designers have even managed to cram 11 buttons below it, which might sound terrifying, but it’s no problem, really. The center of the navigation key has just the proper size, the function keys, the call handling keys, the clear key and the menu control are evenly distributed on the two sides. Around the navigation ring there are the multimedia control keys with a discrete backlight, while on the right there is a dedicated silvery key that takes us to the multimedia menu – we could have seen a similar thing on a couple of Nokia phones.
There is no light sensor above the screen this time, but there is a secondary camera, which might come in handy for video calls. The whole cover has a shiny black surface, which is a real, hardcore fingerprint-magnet, even more since the screen is not sunk, so it gets dirty easily. It’s a smart solution that the surface around the navigation ring gets deeper inwards, so we can feel it more easily where we should be tapping.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
