Nokia N96 expected in UK
Posted July 10th, 2008 by Mondo
According to UK retailer The Carphone Warehouse, Nokia’s N96 – which it announced at the Mobile World Congress in February – is expected to launch in the UK in August 2008. The N96 will replace the N95 8GB, bringing the styling up to date with Nokia’s current range as well as adding DVB-H mobile TV.
Nokia N96 is a smartphone and uses the Symbian S60 3.2 release with Feature Pack 2, With the new Symbian users by adding more specific shortcuts, clearer menu systems while generally improving speed and responsiveness
If you love music and you are a big fan to listening your favorite songs, Nokia N96 include a digital music player( have 16GB internal memory and supported microSD (TransFlash), up to 8GB), a 3.5mm headset jack, an FM radio, support for podcasts and Internet radio, e-mail, text and multimedia messaging, USB 2.0, stereo Bluetooth, and a GPS receiver with maps and turn-by-turn voice directions. The N96 is quadband (GSM 850/900/1800/1900), and it supports both the 900 and 2100 3G bands. After you jump see the full specifications of Nokia N96 smartphone.
I`m a big fan of the N95 8GB, and the N96 looks to be for me like a N95. Call us greedy but we expected something a touch- screen more exciting and pretty from the Finns.
Check out the Nokia N96 full specifications:
- WCDMA2100/900 (HSDPA) / EGSM900, GSM850/1800/1900 MHz (EGPRS) connectivity
- DVB-H Class C, 470-750 MHz
- S60 3rd edition, FP2 UI
- 2.8” QVGA (240 x 320 pixels) LCD TFT display with up to 16 million colors
- 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus and auto-exposure
- Dual-LED camera flash, video light, recording indicator, auto-focus assist light
- Secondary VGA (640 x 480 px) camera for video calls
- Video capture in MPEG-4 up to VGA at 30 fps
- Digital Video Stabilization
- Built-in GPS/A-GPS
- WLAN – IEEE802.11 g/b
- Stereo FM radio (87.5-108MHz, 76-90MHz) with RDS
- Hi-Speed USB 2.0 with Micro USB type B interface
- 3.5mm stereo headset plug , TV-out support (PAL/NTSC)
- Bluetooth 2.0 A2DP stereo/EDR
- 950 mAh battery with up to 220 min talk, 220 hrs standby time, 5 hrs video, 14 hrs music or 4 hrs TV playback
- Dimensions: 103×55×18 mm
- Weight: 125 g
July 31st, 2008 at 5:50 pm
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