Nokia N96 mobile phone launched in India

Nokia has launched the Nokia N96 in India. The new NSeries Nokia N96 mobile phone will compete with the much hyped Apple 3G iPhone which was launched on 22nd August with great fanfare.

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The Nokia N96 has a 2.8 inch TFT screen, 16 million colors display with a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels. It has a 5megapixel camera . The Nokia N96 runs on a Dual ARM 9 processor clocking 264 Mhz CPU speed. It has 16GB of internal memory. It also has a microSD card slot which supports a card upto 8GB. Applications on the N96 run faster due to the 128 MB RAM.

Other features include data connectivity options like EDGE, HSDPA, GPRS and bluetooth A2DP.

Video calling is possible with the VGA camera in front of the phone. The phone has a 3.5mm headphone socket which acts as a TV out. FM Radio with a GPS chip built in the phone, 3D stereo speakers and a lot of bundled data comes with the phone.
Nokia has provided a unique feature exclusively for the Indian users which is the Wave Secure security application – a backup system that keeps a copy of your data via internet and tracks the phone in case the phone is lost or stolen.

Other features include the WLAN, HSPDA, in-build 3D Stereo speakers, USB 2.0, GPRS, EDGE, Bluetooth, Video calling, FR Radio and in-build GPS system.

The Nokia N96 features the following:
Quad band GSM / GPRS / EDGE: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
Dual band UMTS / HSDPA: UMTS 900 / 2100
3G and WLAN access.
Mobile TV (network-dependent feature).
GPS Navigation, map data fetched over mobile datalink or downloaded over the Internet and transferred to the phone over USB.
Access to Ovi
Instant upload to Flickr, Vox, Yahoo! and Google.
Full-HTML browser.
Symbian OS v9.3 S60 3.2 Edition, user interface.
16 GB of internal flash memory.
Memory expandable to up to 48 GB with 32 GB microSD/microSDHC cards (maximum available card storage capacity 16GB/32GB (once released in 2009) ).[2]
2-way slide, as in Nokia N95.
5-megapixel camera, Carl Zeiss optics.
High quality VGA camera in front of the phone, for video calling and self-portrait use.
Double LED flash for the camera.
Pre-bundled with WaveSecure [3]
Plays music files, and lets you download easily via Nokia Web.
Allows high-quality video calling using 3G
A built-in motion sensor that automatically rotates the screen when tilted as on the Nokia N82.

The Nokia N96 model will be available in September 2008 and is priced at Rs. 30,000.