The time when Nokia Mobile Phones released Nokia N95, it was the giant in the market, and there wasn’t any potential threat to Nokia N95 in design, features or performance but now the things are completely different. The N96 uses Dual ARM 9 264 MHZ CPU which is a slower than that of N95’s CPU. There doesn’t appear to be any valid reason for this downgrade, though on second thoughts it looks like it was done to improve battery life but the battery life is worse than that of N95. Not to worry too much as the mediocre battery and the CPU don’t affect the functioning of the phone.

The form factor of N96 is dual slide.

As far as memory is concerned the Nokia N96 is fabulous. It has a large internal memory of 16GB and provides room for further expansion using a micro SD memory card upto 32 GB.The 2.8 inches screen of N96 is marvellous; it’s splendid even under direct sunlight, no complaints from display section too.

The inbuilt 5 megapixel Carl Zeiss lens camera complemented by powerful dual LED flash captures brilliant pictures producing a far better quality than the pictures captured by other phones having a 5 mega pixel camera. However, the capture button can be difficult to press but it isn’t a major problem.

The Nokia N96 Mobile comes with a good DVB – H tuner, enabling it to receive digital TV broadcasts. Among the main entertainment functions of the Nokia N96 – the mp3 play, which doesn’t disappoint with excellent all around sound quality. The loud speakers are placed on the right side, top and bottom of the phone. In landscape mode you can use the kickstand to place the phone on the desk at the best angle for viewing TV / video.

The N96 wasn’t really intended to take the market by storm and turn the world around. Maybe it was meant to quietly update the top multimedia gadget of the house. Nearly every phone manufacturer has a good range of mobiles that can challenge Nokia N96 and most of them have Touchscreen, mp3 players and video playback functions. However the Nokia N96 has a great software package that comes in an utterly user-unfriendly shell.