Advantages of N96 over N95 8GB?

I have looked at the N96 and am wondering what advantages it would really have over the N95 8GB that I currently own. I know that there is more memory and the option to put in a memory card in the N96 but at this point I am not near the limit of my phone's 8GB capacity. The N96 looks a little trimmer but this is at the cost of using a smaller battery with less capacity than the N95 8GB. I understand that there is a potential for watching TV but I have heard that the type of broadcast the N96 is compatible with is not available in most countries (I live in the US).
At this point there don't seem to be enough advantages for me to want to lay out the money to buy the N96 when the N95 8GB works as well as it does, especially as I read about the bugs in the first release.
Comments anyone?

19-Oct-2008 10:56 AM
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At the moment, advantages are,
Better Screen,
Better loudspeaker quality, but its volume is lower than n95 8gb.
Better overall soundquality in music player(negligeable difference)
And, it has Symbian s60 Feature pack 2.
A little slimmer than n95 8gb and a kick stand.
It has 4 media keys play/pause, stop, forward, rewind on the front panel so its more convenient than sliding the other way.
Besides these, i have yet to find out more advantages(you already said the memory part).
I think you should hold on to your n95 8gb, atleast for now, and wait for a couple of months when there are few more firmware upgrades, as those should iron out the bugs in n96.
On a side note: I didnt see n96 as a worthy upgrade to n95 8gb besides the memory part. So i think you should skip on n96.
wht i heard was that the batt. is the same as the N95 with the same capacity..i've upgraded from an N73 so i'm pretty impressed... just a few stability issues which i hope would be dealt with the new firmware update.
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