Yesterday Nokia releases the new Nseries in the MWC at Barcelona.

One of the new Nseries it’s the new N96 which claims to be a new iPhone killer, but the specifications are a bit poor comparing with the iPhone characteristics.

The screen of the N96 has 2,8 inches with a 240 x 320 px of resolution, this is the worst spec of the N96 because seems to be a bit small for the screen size. Iphone has 3,5 inches with a resolution of 480 x 320 px. Concerning the OS, N96 has the third edition of Symbian for S60 and Wifi and HSDPA connectivity, remember that iPhone has a reduced version of Mac OS X Leopard and Wifi too.

One of the critical point is the battery life, N96 is able to reproduce video, music and TV throught DVB-H and the battery life is 180 minutes in conversation, 5 hours reproducing video, 14 hours of music and 4 hours watching TV. In this point iPhone wins too with 24 hours of music, 8 hours of talk time and 7 hours of video but nothing about TV because it hasn’t a DVB-H built-in.

But not all the specs are favorable to iPhone, the built-in camera of the N96 has a Carl Zeiss optic with 5 megapixels against the 2 megapixels that has the iPhone’s camera. Another important spec is the 16Gb of the N96 which is the same as the bigger iPhone, a positive point of view for Nokia and how this company is trying to introduce the music in its terminals.

And don’t forget the multitouch screen of Apple’s iPhone… I think Nokia try to get an iPhone killer but it’s very far way from Apple’s iPhone… in the specs but not in the price, N96 costs 550€ against 700€ of the iPhone, you think this diference is reasonable? Or the iPhone is too expensive?