I have been there. It's very clean

HMV are selling it for £149.99, same price MCV quoted aswell

Why do idiots liek you bother posting when you just want to tewll everyone how much you don't care? You must care, otherwise you wouldn't hit the p***ing link would you?


On topic, that is one sexy case. I'd pay good money for a water cooled HTPC in one of his cases

Why did they get a monkey to model them? Were humans too ashamed?

As for the omina, the widget interface is a nice toy, but not really practical. It's a great phone, but it doesn't cut it as a smartphone

The touch pro is already out "on the right side of the pond", and has been for a while. I have mine in my hand right now, and as a former N95 8GB owner, the TP wipes the floor with it in every respect bar none. And the only way the N95 beats the diamond is in capacity and camera (and I have a digital camera, I've never understood ones built into phones).

Both touches have better hardware, better interfaces, better software, and better build quality. The x1 is a buggy piece of poorly built **** which has been delayed until next year, and if you think the touch diamond UI is awkward then you have never used one, it's smooth, intuative and it works.

avestar, not all of what you say is true:

Better Camera - Jury's still out, and the new Samsungs and Sony's are bounds ahead
16gb integrated memory - Double capacity, nice featue, I'll give you that
DVB-H (Mobile TV) - No one uses it, certainly not in the US or the UK, and as far as I know nowhere in Europe is out of trial stages
Upgraded ram and Symbian 9.3 (No more MEMORY OUT : CLOSE APPLICATIONS) - Again, an actual improvement]
Bigger Display - It has the same 2.8" display, no?
Hardware acceleration for video codecs for H.264 and WMV - To quote a greta man, I can watch HD video in teeny weeny eyestrain-o-vision? No thanks
dual-band HSDPA - Usful for some, not many

The N96 is no where near phones like the Omnia and HTC Touch Pro (both of which are already availible) in terms of functionality and useability, not to mention build quality and style. Hopefully this thing will flop and Nokia might actually step their game up

I am so glad I bought the HTC Touch Pro over this... the N96 looks like a N95 with more space. Let's face it, DVB-H is only in trials in a few places, quite a few carriers will disable it, it MAY have a slightly better camera than it's 2 year old predeccessor, and a touch extra RAM... this is their flagship phone?

I just hope I don't regret my purchase when the Xperia comes out. The N96 is not a high end phone. A year ago, mayby, but not this late in the game.

Given that my current contract will be up in a few months, the awesome £35 contract on O2 is alot better than what I am currently getting (includes 600 min, 500 txt and unlimited data) and it's only 18 month, I;d say hell yeah.

I have never sent an MMS in my life (too expensive) and I have a digital camera for taking photos, it's the portable web browsing combined with a GPS system that I'm interested in. And for £99, who can say no?

At least you get 1440x900 as standard, the only resolution I could get with mine (and still the only oen availible in the UK) is 1200x800 :(