The exchange rate between Europe and the US never seemed to hurt a gadget geek as much as today with the price announcement for the Nokia N96.  Today, the launch date for the Nokia N96 became official with July 31, 2008 as D-day and a hefty £599.99 price tag.  In case you are a little behind on the exchange rates, £599.99 is nearly $1200 USD and at that type of a price tag you can expect many would-be N96 owners to reconsider.  With the current NAM N95 8GB (N95-4) selling for about $600 USD, the idea of spending nearly double the price tag is going to be a hard sell for Nokia this July.  On a brighter note this is an excellent time to refresh on the cold-hard specs for the Nokia N96:
Nokia N96 Specs
- ‘industrial design’, kickstand for video watching/multimedia
- 2.8 inch QVGA display with 16 million colors
- Wifi b/g support
- 16GB of internal storage to match current iPhone
- microSD expansion slot accepts up to 8GB
- 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and Xenon flash (think N82)
- S60 version 3 with feature pack 2 (widgets)
- July 31, 2008 release date
- £599.99 ($1,185 USD)
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With a confirmed release date and a hefty price tag, the HTC Touch Diamond and HTC Touch Pro are looking even better at this point. Â Heck we would even consider taking the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 for the same price if we do not see a NAM N96 hitting US shores before year’s end.
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