Slide Show: New Cell Phones Dance Across the World Stage
Big touch screens, multiple-megapixel cameras, maps, and more: Cell phones unveiled in Barcelona this week will soon make whatever's in your pocket or purse seem dated. Here are some of the most interesting.
Yardena Arar, PC World
Nokia's N96: The Feature List Goes On and On
The successor to the popular N95, Nokia's top-of-the-line N96 proves you can have it all (except touch technology, something Nokia says its working on)--if you're willing to pay for it. The N95 boasts a big (2.8-inch) screen and the connectivity (HSDPA, Wi-Fi, USB 2.0) to encourage MPEG4, Windows Media, or Flash video playback; in areas where DVB-H (technology for live broadcast TV for handhelds) service is available (mostly Europe), the Symbian S60-based N96 can handle that too. This slider phone also has a built-in aGPS receiver (but turn-by-turn directions are an extra-cost option); a five-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics; 16GB of internal flash memory (expandable to 24MB via a MicroSD card slot . . . the list goes on. The N96 is slated to appear in the third quarter for an estimated price (before taxes or carrier subsidies) of 550 euros which, at the time I write this, comes to about $800.
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