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May 25, 2008

May 25, 2008

Nokia PDF document highlighting the differences between the N95, N95 8GB and the N96.

N96productevodocJames Powell from the Talk About Nseries blog has found a PDF document highlighting the differences between the N95, N95 8GB and the N96. No surprises here, but analyzing the document reveals a few interesting details. First of all the document indicates that the N96 includes A-GPS, but that it has an improved antenna. Another interesting detail is that they mention that the N96 has “Enhanced Audio Quality.” But it’s still unclear whether they are referring to the Digital Audio Processing for music playback or that audio-recording during movies has been improved. The N96 also appears to have the ability to natively playback WMV and WMV-DRM (finally!) But the most interesting information has got to be the fact that they indicate that the N96 will have an effective transfer rate of about 50 Mbit/s, 10 times faster than the N95 8GB and N95 which is a huge improvement over current devices on the market. It’s something that we’ve been complaining about and I’m glad to see the the official numbers. I do have to say that the real-world transfer on the N95 8GB is more around 0.8 to 1Mbit/s (the document mentions 5Mbit/s) which I think should put the real-world transfer of the N96 more in the 10-15Mbit/s range which is still pretty fast.

The documents can be found here and here.

Benchmark your Nseries with newly released JBenchmark SVG

JbenchmarksvglaunchKishonti Informatics, the guys behind JBenchmark have released their latest benchmark in the form of JBenchmark SVG.

The new version features:
- Heavy load on animation, DOM access and modification, spline and polygon rendering
- Mapping test
- User Interface simulation
- Font rendering
- Gaming
- Cartoon animation
- SVG load and parse test
- Low level performance tests

What’s cool about the JBenchmark series, including the new JBenchmark SVG, is that you can customize the benchmark by choosing what subtests to include. These subtests are like small test benchmarking your Nseries performing different tests like gaming, cartoon animation etc. and upload the results and compare to other devices.

If you’re interested in more graphic-intensive benchmarking you can always try the Futuremark’s SPMark for Symbian OS or Nokia E3 Tech Demo. The hardware-accelerated Nseries are known to ace these test, but how do they perform in 2D, animation and mapping tests?

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