14 DAY TRIAL // Recent rumors, appeared all over the Web, say that Nokia's Nseries future flagship, namely the mighty N96, could come with a photo camera that features Xenon flash, instead of LED flash, as initially announced by the Finnish company. It all started after a post from the Esato forum, which states that a Nokia representative confirmed the Xenonized N96.
We also have a picture with N96, in which the Xenon flash can be seen, but apparently it's only a Photoshoped image, hence a fake. And while this particular image can't be seen as trustable, it doesn't mean Nokia N96 will clearly not feature Xenon flash. After all, adding Xenon flash to the new Nseries multimedia phone will only bring it closer to perfection, as Xenon technology is definitely superior to the LED one when it comes to the photos' quality. Nokia included Xenon flash in another Nseries, N82, so it's not at all an impossible thing to do with the N96.
Awaiting for official details from Nokia regarding the Xenon feature, we're thinking that the Finnish company could actually roll out two versions of N96, one with Xenon flash and one without, which would probably cost a little less.
As for N96's availability, the handset will hit the market in the second half of the year, probably starting August, for a retail price of about $850 (550 Euro). Among the super-phone's highlights we must mention the huge built-in memory (16GB), an excellent 2.8 inch TFT display with 16 million colors and 240 x 320 pixels, Wi-Fi, GPS, quad-band GSM and dual-band HSDPA connectivity, DVB-H TV broadcast receiver, and a 5 Megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, auto focus and VGA (at 30fps) video recording. Along with the rumored (and hoped) Xenon flash feature, N96 will truly be the ultimate multimedia computer.