The Nokia N96

Nokia N96 is the newest Nokia Smartphone in the Nseries family. It is the official successor to Nokia N95

Nokia N96 was publicly announced at Mobile World Congress February 11-14, 2008 in Barcelona, and started selling in September 2008. Europe, Middle East and Asia-Pacific are the first locations to provide the handset for consumers. The American and Chinese versions are expected shortly thereafter. October 1st is set as the U.K. release date for the N96, although London has a separate date of September 24th when the device will go on sale exclusively at Nokia's flagship. N96 are available in prepaid phone plan at crazyjohns.

Being a successor of the Nokia N95 8GB, Nokia N96 has some king-size spec sheet to top and it can't be accused of not trying. There's FP2, double the built-in storage and DVB-H. The bloodline is strong but the crown is heavy and ancestral sins will be held against the heir twofold. The modest battery capacity and the downgraded CPU do raise some questions that need their answers. Join us for an out-and-out review of Nokia's latest top-of-the-shelf offer. Let's see if it has got the performance to walk in them shoes size N95.

Key features:

• 2.8" 16M-color TFT LCD display of QVGA resolution

• 5 megapixel autofocus camera with dual-LED flash and AF assist light

• Built-in DVB-H TV tuner

• Symbian OS 9.3 with S60 3.2 UI

• Dual ARM 9 264 MHz CPU and 128 MB of RAM

• 3G with HSDPA support

• Quad-band GSM support

• Wi-Fi with UPnP technology

• Built-in GPS with A-GPS functionality and 3 months of free voice-guided navigation

• Dual slide design with dedicated gaming/audio keys

• Massive 16GB onboard storage

• microSD card slot with microSDHC support

• Built-in accelerometer for UI auto-rotation

• 3.5 mm audio jack

• TV out

• Stereo FM Radio with RDS

• Car charger in the retail package

• VGA video recording at 30fps

• USB and Bluetooth v2.0

• One free N-gage game and Transformers movie preloaded

• Keypad locking slide key