Comments on: Nokia No Longer Has ‘THE’ Top Spec S60 – Introducing The InnoV8

By: Nokia N96 Vs Samsung INNOV8 : Pre-Release Battle Of ‘The Titans’ | The S60 Blog

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:41:05 +0000

[...] of my friends have called INNOV8 as the N96 Killer Phone and other have mentioned that Nokia is no longer a leader in the S60 Smartphone world need to read this pre-sales comparison review and see for [...]

By: Ro

Ro — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 12:06:34 +0000

sorry slight editing correction. I meant samsung have experience making dedicated cameras. dedicated cameraphone just makes me sound stupid, which I am not. at least not more than the next bloke.

By: Ro

Ro — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 12:04:48 +0000

I just read elsewhere, I think it was on a site called about symbian, though I cannot be sure, the innov8 does use a larger sensor. It is apparently the same sensor as in the S/E c905 if I remember correctly. Also samsung have experience making dedicated cameraphones so expect the UI to be more feature packed than usual.
3D chip is definitely a good idea but has little if not no support from current software developers. Still might be supported more in future, I would take this phone on that gamble.
Still trying to discover how fast its cpu is. I would find that information very interesting.

By: Magnus

Magnus — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:27:17 +0000

I really hope Nokia gets around to an 8 MP camera phone, a real successor to my N95. I love this phone so much that I didn’t upgrade to the N95 8GB (No lens cover, comparatively expensive for very little changes, no card slot), E90 (3.2MP camera, 2.5mm audio out, a bit bulky), E71 (Pathetic camera, smaller screen). I also won’t be upgrading to the N96 because it’s just more of the same with no real breakthroughs. That’s not to say all of them aren’t great phones, it’s just that an N95 owner doesn’t have a compelling enough reason to change (except for QWERTY but I don’t need it much).

By: Vaibhav Sharma

Vaibhav Sharma — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:55:17 +0000

Thanks for the heads up. I was still living in the pre N96 world, I guess drawing a comparison with a device such as the N95 8GB. The FP2/N96 update that brough this in completely slipped out of my mind. Post edited.

As far as the camera goes, I completely agree with your statement about the better optics, like I mentioned above. But features such as Face/blink detection sure sound good.

Similarly, the Samsung’s bigger battery might last less than N96’s or the camera might take worse pictures but the phone will still remain the TOP spec phone – but NOT necessarily the BETTER one.

By: Jukka Eklund

Jukka Eklund — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:05:18 +0000

Check your facts, for example in here: http://www.nseries.com/nseries/v3/media/sections/products/tech_specs/en-R1/tech_specs_n96_en_R1.html. N96 has WMV9 support, and all of the decoding of video (WMV, MPEG-4 SP and AVC) is done on hardware (the Nomadik chip) which can product SDTV resolution on TV-out which I doubt Samsung can do. Samsung has a 3D chip, that’s missing on N96. So I’d say the differences are not that big, just the 8MP camera which doesn’t produce any better pictures than 5MP unless it has better optics and larger sensor, it just makes the picture files bigger.