The ubiquitous name in the world of handset manufacturing "Nokia" has now come with the so called successor of N95. It's called the new Nokia N96. It falls in the same category of smart phones produced by Nokia and branded under the N series. A smooth and shiny surface, bigger screen, slider hinge, ultra fast responses, touch pad navigation and an inbuilt stand for watching video clearly gives the new Nokia N96 an edge over the others and also over its predecessors.

The N96 is really a slicker and stronger upgrade to the Nokia N95.The Nokia N96 is packed with all the features you could ever imagine inside a cell phone. So time to get deeper into the specs and specialties of this killer application called The Nokia N96.

The N96 mobile phone is 4.05 inches by 2.16 inches by 0.71 inches in dimension and weighs about 4.41 ounces. The N96 is basically a quadraband enabled (GSM 850/900/1800/1900) handset and will also support the new third generation (3G) bands. It has an elegantly designed 2.8 inches wide screen with very good bitrates to watch quality videos, movies and TV shows. The Nokia N96 would easily give a run for money to any of the portable media players in the market currently.

The new Nokia 96 boasts of a 5-megapixel camera with lenses from Carl Zeiss, a flash and a VGA camcorder that helps in playing and recording clips at a speed of 30 frames per second. The camera comes with the latest geo tagging functionality (via GPS) which when enabled, tags the images automatically with their geo coordinates. The Nokia N96 can also capture Videos in MPEG-4 format and there is a secondary VGA camera especially to facilitate video calls.

As far as storage goes, the N96 can literally carry all your media on go with a whopping 16 GB of in built flash memory and it also has a slot to extend its storage capacity to 24GB. The N96 mobile phone has 950 mAh battery which would last a 220 minutes talk, 220 hours of standby time. The N96 also features 5 hours of video performance, 14 hours of nonstop music and about 4 hours of live TV telecasts. In fact you would never run out of battery with the Nokia N96.

To make life easier through connectivity the N96 comes with WLAN-IEEE802.11 g/b ports, Bluetooth ver. 2.0. The inbuilt WLAN in N96 can be utilized to access wireless broadband at move. So you are sure to remain connected where ever you go if you have the new Nokia N96 in your pocket. Some of the other cool features that the N96 carries with itself include a digital music player, FM radio, email facilities, a 3.5 mm headset jack, USB 2.0,integrated GPS navigation system, stereo Bluetooth and lots more.

With the high end connectivity features The Nokia N96 can easily share pictures, videos and all your media with any other device like phones, computers etc. So the new Nokia N96 is a power packed booster in the list of smart phones and will definitely give tougher competitions to other phones in the same segment. If you want to make a cool gizmo you style statement, then the Nokia N96 is a must have one!