As you most probably know, Nokia N96 was revealed in Mobile World Congress which took place some months ago. It came with the best of almost every single feature that has been out since the start of smartphones. All but one; a Xenon Flash. Nokia put the Xenon flash for the first time in the N82. In MWC, they decided it would be better to place a dual flash LED instead in the N96. Why? Because Xenon flash needs charging everytime it's fired, so it won't be able to function properly while video recording. On the other hand, Flash LEDs are okay with that, so to enhance flash they decided to put 2 LEDs instead of one.

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IMO, I don't think Flash in video recording is that effective nor needed. It's more like an Indicator that a video is being recorded rather than an actual flash, and It can be replace by some smaller substitute if aside to Xenon if Xenon won't do the job..

However, a member @Esatu Forum has brought up news today that there might be some changes to the N96 we saw in MWC. He claims that a Nokia representative has told him that one reason behind N96's delay is the addition of Xenon Flash instead of the dual LEDs. In fact, Dusan @intoMobile has raised a very good question;

"Why would the N82 make better photos than the company's flagship device?"

Why?!

[Source: IntoMobile]