Nokia N96 Brings New Technology to the Nokia Series Range

Nokia's N-Series range of mobile phones has now expanded to include their most advanced multimedia device to date - the Nokia N96 represents the very best that the manufacturer has to offer and vastly improves on the previous Nokia N95 model.

The overall shape has changed to a far more curved form, and buttons are now flush giving the Nokia N96 a sleek finish to its exterior.

An updated version of the Nokia N95, the N96 features a similar dual slide mechanism which one way slides out to reveal a standard numeric keyboard and another to reveal the multimedia control keys for music playing and movie watching.

The QVGA screen measures 2.8 inches displayed in 16 million colours, and wait for it, the internal memory is a massive 16GB in size, that's twice the size of the N95 8GB and with microSD card expansion this can be increased to an incredible 32GB.

In terms of connectivity, the Nokia N96 Symbian S60 smartphone is A Quad Band GSM phone with GPRS support and EDGE technology, HDSPA and UMTS (3G) enabled and offers WiFi capabilities.

The available Bluetooth comes with A2DP stereo support and USB connectivity is an easy method of synchronizing with your PC or if you prefer you can use the infrared connection.

Multimedia features onboard include a 5.0 mega pixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus and optical zoom functions, a dual LED flash and a kickstand for watching videos, video capture and playback at 30 frames per second plus a secondary camera for video calling.

The Nokia N96's music entertainment system comprises of a Music Player which supports MP3, AAC and WMA audio file formats and 14 hours music playback and a Stereo FM Radio with RDS support as well as a 3.5mm audio output jack for use of standard headsets.

Complete with integrated advanced GPS satellite navigation and DVB-H TV broadcast receiver for watching Live TV broadcasts, the Nokia N96 is anything but lacking in the feature department.

Further business tools include an office document viewer, organiser, web browser, RSS news reader, email, push to talk, voice dial/memo and built-in handsfree.