Nokia N96 is the successor to Nokia N 95. It was announced in February 2008 and launched in September 2008. The Specification of the N96 is as below. N96 is a phone, which supports dual Networks and also supports Quad Band. So the phone can be used in majority of the areas in the world. N96 supports the 2G and the 3G Network. In 2G it support GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM, 1800 and GSM 1900 networks and in the 3G network it supports HSDPA 900 / 2100 and HSDPA 850 / 1900.

Nokia N96 is light and easy to handle. The Phone weighs around 125g and the size is 103 x 55 x 18 mm. The display size is broad at 2.8 inches with a screen size of 240 x 320 pixels. The N96 can support 64 channel polyphonic ring tones, Monophonic, Mp3 and True Tones as ring tones. The Phone is designed to be Dual Slid.

We can store unlimited entries in the phone book with the Call records been stored for 30 days. This phone supports up to 8 GB of microSD external memory. It has a 16 GB internal memory with 128 MB RAM and 256 MB Storage memory. This makes the N96 a great music phone, which can store more than 10,000 songs and videos of more than 30 hours too. The speed of the phone is good as the processor is DUAL ARM 9 264 MHz CPU. N96 also supports GPRS class 32,296 kbps and EDGE.

It features a Bluetooth, WLAN and USB support. The OS is SYMBIAN OS 9.3 S60 rel 3.2 and support the following messaging SMS, MMS, Instant Messaging and Email. The browser is a WAP 2.0 one with xhtml, html and a RSS reader. It is available only in black colour The Camera is a 5 Mega Pixel one with Carl Zeiss optical lens. It has the autofocus feature with Video at the rate of 30 frames per second. The camera has a flash and secondary VGA.

N96 also has a Built-in GPS receiver, A-GPS function, DVB-H TV broadcast receiver. N96 has a music player that supports the following encoding MP3, WMA, AAC, AAC+, eACC+. The makes sure the N96 is a music powerhouse. It also has a wonderful video, which allows you to download videos from the web and play them. It also has a 3.5 mm jack output a TV out.

The Phone also has an inbuilt organizer, with an office document viewer and T9 prediction support. The above things make sure it suits as good business phone too. N96 also has a hands-free, which is built in. The battery is a Li-Ion 950 mAH battery and has a stand by time of 220 hours and a talk time of up to 3 hours and 40 minutes. The deals available on N96 are various. They are based on the minutes of talk time or text messages available free. In addition, the different Networks have different deals. The contract length varies from 6 month to 24 month and the deal includes the phone price too.