The 10 best social networking mobile apps

Keeping in touch doesn't always mean making a phone call; there are apps for Facebook, Twitter and plenty of other social networks. 

Facebook
Multiple formats; free
Mobile phones are about staying in touch and with a smartphone that means staying in touch with your social networks too. Facebook has millions of mobile users and an app for almost every handset, making it easy to check messages, view photos and now use Facebook Places to find money-saving deals near your location.

Twitter
Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, iPad; free
There are dozens of mobile Twitter clients, but the official app is dominant despite only appearing less than a year ago (it is built on top of Tweetie). With a eay-to-use, full features it's easy to see why.

Skype
Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, iPad, Nokia; free
The service that first brought free VoIP calls to millions of desktops is now well and truly mobile. Voice and video calling are offered via 3G and Wifi.

Yelp
Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, iPad, Palm; free
Yelp is the leading US website for user-generated reviews of bars, restaurants and shops. It has now launched in the UK and its array of apps can help you get involved.

Bump
Android, iPhone; free
This app allows users to intuitively swap contacts, photos, become Facebook friends and more by literally bumping their phones together. Useful for networking - in business and in bars.

Hullomail
Android; free
This app brings the iPhone's useful Visual Voicemail feature to Android devices. It allows you to see who left a message before you decided whether you need ot listen to it, and to access it without plodding through menus,
Fring
Android, iPhone
This app offer free voice and video calls over WiFi and 3G. You can use it to log into your Yahoo Messenger, MSN, Google Talk and other communications accounts, too.
WhatsApp
Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, Nokia; £0.59
If you can excuse the terrible pun, WhatsApp is a simple way of cutting SMS charges, expecially if you're travelling. Users of the application on any compatible platform can swap messages for free, including photos.
eBuddy
Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, Nokia; free
Among dozens of instant messenger apps, eBuddy stands out for its user-friendliness. Sign in to your Yahoo!, MSNm AOL, Google Talk, Facebook Chat and other instant messenger accounts from one app.
Swiftkey
Android; free

Typing on smartphones is no fun. Swiftkey aims to make it a less frustrating experience by replacing your keyboard with one with that intelligently predicts words and learns your style.


Source: telegraph.co.uk

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic review

Now, technically, is not the first time Nokia is dirty hands with touchscreen displays, but it seems that this time are determined to do better business in the field. Nokia 5800 is not a simple story. With the influence of Symbian platform, 5th Edition S60, this model will remain in memory as the first full touchscreen model, beyond the inherent problems of the first experiences. It's a XpressMusic series terminal, with an affordable price and a strong personality.

Characteristics
* LCD TFT display 3.2' touchscreen 16 million cuore
* 3.2 MP camera with autofocus and dual LED flash
* Video recording at 30 fps
* Symbian S60 5th Editon
* ARM 11 369 MHz CPU, 128 MB SDRAM memory
* Dual band 3G support with HSDPA
* WI-FI connection with UPnP
* Quad band GSM
* GPS receiver with Nokia Maps 2.0 Touch
* MicroSD slot card and 8 GB
* Stereo jack 3.5 mm
* TV Out
* FM Radio with RDS
* Stereo Bluetooth and USB 2.0.
* Proximity sensor for closing the screen
* Accelerometru screen rotation
* Virtual QWERTY keyboard
* Sales package rich
* Office document viewer
* Integration and OVI MySpace

The main disadvantages

* Limited availability software
* User interface is still immature
* Does not have smart dialing
* Low quality image without geotagging
* Web browswerul touch move heavy
* Does not load via USB
* Does not allow editing office

Package Sale

For starters, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic comes with a memory card with 8 GB, which is not bad for a phone with price around 300 euros. There's also a USB cable for data connections, cable TV-Out and a handsfree in two parts, with a plug of 3.5 mm at each end, so you can easily replace the original castle without sacrifices. To complete the exploration box should mention mandatory, except for husa skin loader and a DC and a lot of manuals and guides to start using the phone as soon as possible. There is also a mini DVD that contains an overview of the characteristics of the phone and all necessary software to sync with your PC ..

Overview
5800 XpressMusic has 111x51.7x15.5 mm in size in the beauties or the touchscreen. That amounts to a volume of 83cc, therefore we can not say is the most compact in its class. This is primarily due to its thickness and considerable height. Form leaves little room for variation and Nokia 5800 tries to construieasca identity as nearest house style. So instead of looking just like a telephone touch you in front of one eye with which boasts that it is without doubt a Nokia pure blood. Removing the back find the battery, behind which you can find space for the SIM card. This is so unusual that they had instructions to draw the cover for this purpose. Behind Nokia 5800 XpressMusic has a 3 megapixel camera with autofocus and a Dual LED flash. Another interesting thing is the stylus, which gliseaza easy in a particular place for.

The battery is a 1320 mAh Li-Ion. Quoted at length the impressive life of 400 hours in stand-by and at 8 hours and 45 minutes talk time, is sure that this battery is pretty strong that the phone will Mantini functional enough time. Promise to play 35 hours of music makes us believe a viable. However, these values are maximal. Large screen applications and consuming energy, such as Wi-Fi, 3G or GPS can make the problem even more powerful batteries. In reality you can expect two days of regular use.

The phone on the outside gives us a sense of robustness, but is destroyed by constant unwanted noises made by the back - Nokia 5800 and smte looks more like a wobbly sliding than a monolithic bloc. The screen is impressive in size and resolution. In fact those of its 3.2 inches, is the largest display of all Finnish phones. Resolution of 360x640 pixels are in top after another monster E90 business. In fact, no other terminal can not measure the resolution, nor even omnipotent iPhone 3G. Contrast and brightness are good, though - must admit - does not compare with OLED technology on the N85. But in terms of screen size all know that counts above all. Unfortunately, legibility under direct sunlight is quite weak. It is the same with HTC Diamond which means that it is quite difficult to find an angle of the job to use the phone in a day with strong sunlight. It seems that the interface is not the only place where iPhone was removed from the competition. You might have some problems before you used to screen sensitive, but if you use the stylus accommodation becomes much easier.

Evolution Symbian S60
We have now reached the most important part of the performance of 5800 XpressMusic. How good or how weak is the phone very much depends on how well goes Symbian S60 touch. Do you believe that the S60 is the most user-fliendly and stable interface for smartphones, but will not necessarily make the facility was a touch better than it is at this moment. S60 optimized touchscreen display is more a curse than a blessing in this moment. Honestly, I felt like 5800 all owners have their uses this terminal as a huge group centered in time of testing various elements of the new interfaces. Comparing interfatele touchscreen S60 5th edition of the LG and Samsung and Windows Mobile will not reach a conclusion in favor of Nokia. And only a mere mention of iPhone would be devastating for morale's 5800 XpressMusic. The interface is fairly intuitive, but it is not the best of the touch control. Each screen comes with submenu and contextual buttons, so browsing will not differ from phones that use a D-pad or soft keys. Unfortunately, when you rotate the phone in the input text, instead get a keyboard Qwery automatically, you only get multi-tap. To activate the virtual QWERTY keyboard, have to manually activate the menu - still a compromise that is far behind the competition. There are a number of options for customizing the interface, either by enabling or disabling the theme or by changing the image and like that. The phone comes with one theme preinstalled, but is by online download many other topics. Casting a glance what the applications can be run on the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic I can say that their number is much in favor of Windows Mobile.

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic uses an agenda identical to what the previous version of the interface provided. Except of course feature touch. Agenda has unlimited capacity prectic editing a contact and provides a wide variety of preset fields and you can duplicate each of you many times. You can create new fields if you need. Personal ring tones and videos are also available for their award from the contacts. If you prefer, you can contact grouped and assigned each group a specific ringtone.
I had no problem regarding the performance of the call of Nokia 5800. The reception is pretty good, pretty powerful speaker and there were no interference. It seems as though we have been a happy event, since many users had problems with the loudspeaker which burns very quickly, partly solved the problem by changing the Nokia producer speaker. It is quite embarrassing for Nokia that allowed such things to happen to one of the most important portfolio of phones.
The message is still a part that has not been changed too much in comparison with previous models. There are several changes, most often an attempt to simplify the interface and, of course, to add new methods of charge type touch. Will notice a slight change in appearance, but it remains as conservative. 5800 supports all message types - SMS, MMS and E-mail. All have a common intuitive editor which is quite familiar. When composing an SMS, a character is displayed to a maximum of 160 characters. Another indicator divides the number of parts in which the message will be sent. In the end, 5800 offers handwriting recognition, but do not use unless you have a patient iron. Very important is the function of training written by hand, which the phone learn how to write by hand. Another proof that the addition of Nokia have developed as it should feature.
More email accounts and various security protocols are present, so you can be sure that any email service will run without problems on the 5800 XpressMusic. The client can download either the message header and can be set to check mail at a certain time. Another useful application allows you to schedule sending an email when an internet connection is detected. There are also support files and attachments, signature, and generally, you can not think that he would miss something important for the e = mails. In addition, the screen resolution makes reading an email is a real pleasure.

Multimedia
Music player could handle much better. Do not say that player is not capable, but for a touch interface does not look too pleasant. Bibilioteca music is automatically sorted by artist, album, genre and composer and gradual search is available as well. The process of adding a song is as simple as choosing the refresh option. With a large number of formats supported harder you come across an audio file that can not be run. The Equalizer comes with five preset, but there is the possibility adding new ones. On the music player, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic has done best of all terminals Finnish before. Video player, instead is made especially like to dezamageasca. Accept only a limited number of codecs, DivX or XviD missing.
FM radio show very well. He has a simple interface and care and can automatically scan and save the available stations in the area where you are. RDS is supported, and the first for Nokia, has automatic updates for alternative frequencies. This means that if you are going, 5800 will deal with automatic switching frequencies of the selected radio.
Gallery of Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is yet another part of the interface that has not been radically changed in comparison with other models. This has no way of viewing 3D nor customizable as slideshow series N. The only difference is adding touch-friendliness. In fact, the gallery is one of the few places where the touch interface with finger movements allows the screen surface. File Manager is in general a Symbian interface. The application can do whatever you go through your mind with files - move, copy, rename, sorting or sending. You can also set a password to protect information, if considered necessary.
Camera
Another downside that comes with a Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. With 3.15 megapixels and a maximum resolution of 2048x1536 pixels, Carl-Zeiss lens and Dual LED flash could you give the impression that you obtain quality images, at least above average. After the first click in optimal lighting conditions and with all settings at maximum, you will have a downside that could hardly be overcome. Even if the range of settings is quite extensive-from the hand of white ballance, ISO, exposure compensation until the sharpness and contrast - you will not get any pictures impressive. I was quite surprised by the lack of unpleasant geotagging despite how this GPS incorporat. Regarding the video recording is decent handle much more than in photos. The phone has VGA resolution with 30 fps. Pretty good rate on a frame design makes pleasant viewing, clips are captured in MPEG4 format. You can choose whether Dual Flash LED's to stay on permanently, or on the required registration to a certain point.
Connectivity is one of the strengths of Nokia's 5800 XpressMusic, otherwise as any smartphone that respect. The phone supports all means of data transfer, either by cable or by wireless. Version and the USB and Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP present. Wi-Fi connectivity with UPnP support is also available. The remaining types of connectivity are integrated, from GPRS, EDGE, 3G and HSDPA up to.
Web browser is the same as the version of 3rd Edition Symbian S60 interface. It is a shame though is a decent browser, but I have preferred to include a new generation in May and faster than this. Luckily I can install an alternative browser, such MiniOpera which move much better and includes superior facilities net of pre-installed.
Calendar is a useful feature, with three different viewing modes and well known: monthly, weekly, daily plus four types of events available for setting: meeting, memo, anniversary, and to-do-list. Each camp has its own alarm. This smartphone has preisntalate and applications such as Word files to open, Excell, PDF and Power Point. Unfortunately, editing documents is not supported by Quick veriunea Office. Activation option if you want to edit, you will need to purchase another application from the Nokia Download Center. Another useful application is ZIP files manager that lets extract archives directly in the phone.
GPS Module
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic comes with an integrated GPS receiver and judging by our experience, it seems that one is very sensitive. Get the phone took about 2 minutes to connect to the satellite and can start surfing, while we drive in a car, which is pretty decent for a Nokia not accredited specialists in GPS. High-resolution screen is a premise to use reasonable device for GPS navigation. Unfortunately 5800 XpressMusic has voice guided navigation, unlike other models from Nokia, is still expected for a terminal at this price. Comes with Nokia Maps 2.0 Touch preistalat. As you might have guessed, this is more of a touch-enabled version of the standard application, offers ample free maps, but have to pay for the remaining functions, such as traffic information or visit the town guide..
Gaming zone
Accelerometrul integrated rather than help control what games they were expected to be in the center of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. Truth is another phone that has only two games preinstalled and one of them can be controlled through gestures. Moreover, it is not a very precise control as we have hoped to offer him, and while the screen is great, certainly a welcome benefit, touch interface is a big disappointment when it comes to games. Instead you can download an extra free game from Nokia Download Center and several manufacturers have released several titles devoted his 5800 XpressMusic, against payment of course. However, Java games can also be considered as a free option to take into account.
Conclusion
At the end of this test ExpressMusic Nokia 5800 we can say that the phone can be seen as an acquisition rather good for the fans of the brand. Sure, in an exchange to receive an interface immature, inconsistent and quite lacking in features, but for the price of sale seems a deal. On the other hand, the first terminal with touch screen Nokia thrown into battle with other industry giants, who are the 3rd generation of touchscreen sites, we can say that is a device that wants to test the market. Unfortunately, poorly adapted Symbian interface touch function, problems with the loudspeaker and camera disappointing, make Nokia 5800 XpressMusic to be a kind of hybrid between the series devoted to the Finnish manufacturer, which fails to build an identity phone personality.

Sony Ericsson T707 ClamShell

Sony Ericsson announced its latest mobile phone, Sony Ericsson T707 clamshell, partnership with tennis star Maria Sharapova. Sony Ericsson T707 lights up when you receive a call and you can personalise the light settings to each of your friends, If you are in meeting of too busy to answer the phone, simply end the call with a wave your hand over the display screen. Sony Ericsson T707 also has a 3.2 megapixel camera, FM Radio, Bluetooth, and 2.2inch display screen. You can choose one for you from Spring Rose, Mysterious Black and Lucid Blue.

The T707 is the next step in the style evolution from Sony Ericsson, said Linda Schori, Global Marketing Business Manager for Style Category, Sony Ericsson. Maria Sharapova is the perfect partner for us as she exemplifies not only elegance but also substance, just like the T707. It works hard and is also sleek, glamorous and desirable a truly winning combination!

The Sony Ericsson T707 Clamshell Mobile Phone will be available in selected market starting Q2. More Specifications below.

• 3.2 megapixel camera


• Bluetooth


• Access NetFront Web browser


• Speakerphone



• FM radio with RDS


• Video calling (main camera)


• Wallpaper animation


• Exchange ActiveSync


• Text messaging (SMS)


• Day and Night changing theme


• Light effects


• Pulsating light notification


• Chat View



• Gesture control


• YouTube


• 3D games


• Motion gaming


• Java


• Geo tagging of photos


• Google Maps


• Size: 93 x 50 x 14.1 mm


• Weight: 95 grams



• Display: 262,144 colour TFT, scratch-resistant


• Resolution: 240 x 320 pixels


• Size: 2.2 inches


• Type: 1.1-inch Monochromatic OLED, scratch-resistant


• Resolution: 128 x 36 pixels


• Phone memory: Up to 100MB


• Memory Stick Micro (M2)


• Talk time GSM/GPRS: Up to 10 hrs


• Standby time GSM/GPRS: Up to 400 hrs



• Talk time UMTS: Up to 4 hrs


• Standby time UMTS: Up to 400 hrs


• Video call time: Up to 2 hrs

A little extra has been thrown into the phone through the ability to personalize light settings for any caller. Gesture controls allow users to wave their hand over the device to end an incoming call or snooze an alarm. The phone pulsates for incoming data. The phone also adjusts the user interface depending on the time of day. The handset is shipped with with three colored shells. At the moment, time frame for availability and pricing have not yet been announced.

Samsung U100 Mobile Phone Review

Your search for a magnificent mobile set might end with Samsung U100, as this mobile set is designed to pack all substantial features of modern communication devices. Besides taking mobile communication to a new high, U100 is going to enchant you with flawless design and most capable utilities. We can say it is another gem in the crown of the manufacturing company. If this much has fascinated your interest in this mobile set, you must read this piece of writing till end. The most appealing features of this mobile set includes:

• The candy bar design of this mobile phone has designated it as the slimmest mobile set in UK market. The mobile set weighs only 66 g and thus, you can estimate its popularity in UK market.
• A superior picture quality, with resolution of 2048×1536 pixels is assured by inclusion of 3-MP camera in this handset. Thus, you have the privilege to click some real to life images with this camera mobile phone.
• This mobile set is bestowed upon with efficient data transfer services like GPRS and EDGE. While GPRS of class-10 category is proficient in providing data capability of 32-48 kbps, class-10 EDGE technology is supportive in rewarding data rate of 236.8 kbps.
• The phonebook with capacity to hold up to 1000 entries is definitely a great feature of this device. Also, it is available with photocall facility.
• MP3 player is integrated into the design of this mobile set to add worth to its endless features. Thus, you can listen to your favourite music in various formats like MP3, AAC, WMA and eAAC+.

Samsung U100 is available in variety of colours. Thus, you can choose amongst colours like blue-violet, grey-black and gold. The dimensions of this device are 105.5 x 50 x 5.9 mm, making it a significantly commendable device. The TFT display with 256k-color combination is employed to catch your attention and offer picture resolution of 176 x 220 pixels.

The mobile phone is capable of sharing remarkable memory space of 70 MB, which is quite appreciable. The Lithium ion battery of 950 mAh is provided to offer magnificent talk time and standby utilities. The device promises support for messaging formats like SMS, EMS, MMS and email and thus, it has been considered as a competent device for communication.

The integration of Bluetooth 2.0 supports the connectivity of this mobile phone. Apart from this, USB 2.0 is associated with this mobile set to make it capable of exchanging data with personal computers. Some other features worth mentioning are Bluetooth printing, document viewer, T9 predictive text input, organizer and speakerphone for hands free communication.

Samsung U100 allows you to download ring tones, games and other features with the help of WAP 2.0. Also, you can find the ingredients of basic mobile phone, like diary, alarm, calculator, currency converter, stop watch, calendar, clock and many others.

U100 is a treasured possession for modern UK mobile users. It is capable of setting a standard, which is unbeatable by any other mobile device.

LG KG800 Cell Phone Review

LG KG800 is introduced in UK market with an aim to provide a mobile set with constructive design and unparallel features to users with varied tastes. Needless to say, this mobile phone has already reflected the image of most sought after option amongst UK customers. It seems style and substance has become the trademarks of this mobile manufacturing company across the globe.

The most accepted feature of this mobile set is its support for modern technologies, which are inseparable parts of mobile communication. You are going to experience an association of this mobile phone with GPRS technology to facilitate data transfer at towering speed. This class-10 technology is integrated to provide data transfer speed of 32 to 48 KB per second. There is a support for Bluetooth technology of v1.2 type. The feasibility of web services is made possible by the support from WAP 2.0.


Another admirable feature of this mobile set is enclosure of 128 MB shared memory to pack quantity in quality. Moreover, one is provided with the facility to integrate external memory with this mobile phone. An excellent feature indeed!

The battery life offered by this mobile set is another feather in the cap. The Lithium Ion 800 mAh standard battery is introduced in this design to support a user talk time of 6 hours. Apart from this, the battery is able t sustain its life in the standby mode for as many as 200 hours. If you are waiting to know about camera support, you need not be disappointed at this front. The mobile set is proud to offer 1.3-MP camera with unbeatable features like video compatibility and flash. The image resolution of 1280 x 960 pixel is enough to provide great picture resolution.

The messaging formats like SMS, EMS, MMS and email are included in this handset. The mobile set is associated with POP3, IMAP4 and SMTP email clients to provide better email connectivity.

The mobile set has dimensions of 95 x 48 x 15.2 pixel with a weight of 83g. The network support is provided by GSM 900/1800/1900. The MP3 player fabricated in the design of this mobile phone supports a number of music formats like MP3, AAC and MPEG4.

There is no end to the features offered by this valuable mobile set. This mobile set is worth buying and is true reflection of your social lifestyle. You are not going to regret your decision of purchasing LG KG800 mobile phone in long run.

Sony Ericsson W960i UK Review

The sleek and versatile Sony Ericsson W960i is a glossy design phone with a recessed keypad. The full touch screen of the device is user-friendly with access menus, a traditional keypad and music player. The 3 mega pixel camera phone also has a Walkman music player for the music lovers and also facilitates fast internet access. The phone also has a special feature of handwriting recognition technique. The smart 3G phone is created to improve the lifestyle of modern users. The user can comfortably carry the black vinyl phone in their pockets as it weighs only 119 gm. The device has 109 x 55 x 16 mm dimension, 2.6 TFT screen supporting 256K colors and 240×320 pixels for capturing videos and best quality images on the screen.



Sony Ericsson W960i is a business phone as well as an entertainment phone with stunning features such as 3.12 mega pixels camera, screen viewfinder, TrackID system and 8GB memory. The viewfinder functions as a digital camera for getting best clicks. The other special features of the phone are Email, instant messaging, MMS, SMS, UIQ 3.0 technology, Symbian OS v9.1, USB port, Bluetooth v2.0 and A2DP. The features like RSS reader, xHTML, WAP 2.0 make the web browsing a great experience. The user can also download games, videos and his favorite music. With all these adorable features, Sony Ericcson W960i is truly the king of entertainment.

Sony Ericsson W950i Mobile Phone Review

Sony Ericsson W950i is all set to rock the UK market with its colourful touch screen and all other features to take your mobile communication to new heights. The mobile set is based upon 3G technologies and thus, has every reason to be admired by mobile users from all walks of life. The set has a unique look and feel with mystic purple colour body and 262-colour touch screen.

The keys of this mobile set are bit smaller as compared to its predecessors and the orange border around Walkman and Cancel key renders a magnificent look to the keypad. The most significant feature of this mobile set is the inclusion of Walkman facility in it. In fact, it has been endorsed as the trendsetter smart mobile phone with unique feature of Walkman in it. Sony Ericsson W950i is a phone set for music lovers, with innumerable features like shuffling the songs, assigning different moods to tracks, creating different play lists and forwarding and rewinding a track.




The keys of this mobile set are bit smaller as compared to its predecessors and the orange border around Walkman and Cancel key renders a magnificent look to the keypad. The most significant feature of this mobile set is the inclusion of Walkman facility in it. In fact, it has been endorsed as the trendsetter smart mobile phone with unique feature of Walkman in it. Sony Ericsson W950i is a phone set for music lovers, with innumerable features like shuffling the songs, assigning different moods to tracks, creating different play lists and forwarding and rewinding a track.

The mobile set possesses a weight of only 112 g and thus, is easy to carry anywhere and everywhere. Moreover, the sleek design having dimensions of only 106×54x15 mm provides an amiable look to this set. The memory integrated in this design is a 4 GB internal memory, though; there is no provision to further extend this memory. The memory included in the design is Li-ion 900 mAh battery with talk time usage of 7.5 hours and stand by time of 340 hours.

If you are looking for a camera phone, then this mobile set is definitely not for you. However, there are other features, which make it a wonderful mobile set for UK users. For instance, the 3G technology integrated with this mobile set allows the mobile user to experience fast Internet surfing. This mobile set, due to availability of Bluetooth technology, facilitates the wireless communication. The inclusion of Opera 8 browser is enough to endow the mobile user with browsing facility. The mobile set also has infrared and GPRS facilities to facilitate high-speed data transfers.

Coming back to music, the mobile set has a dedicated media player, which is capable of supporting an array of features like FM Radio, PlayNow, Mega Bass and Music DJ. Besides this there are basic mobile phone features including SMS, MMS and email facility, Java games, calendar, calculator, phone book, speaker phone, stopwatch, timer and so on.

Thus, if you are looking for a mobile set with built-in splendid music system, Sony Ericsson W950i is there to serve you with best.

Nokia N96-Full Review and Specification

Nokia N96 is the upcoming mobile phone in Nokia NSeries.It is announced officially by Nokia in Feburary 2008.It is expected that it may release in the end of the following year(2008).It is the
official successor to Nokia N95.Nokia N96 may be a revolutionary mobile in the Mobiles World:)


Nokia N96 is the upcoming mobile phone in Nokia NSeries.It is announced officially by Nokia in Feburary 2008.It is expected that it may release in the end of the following year(2008).It is the
official successor to Nokia N95.Nokia N96 may be a revolutionary mobile in the Mobiles World:)




Here is the full Specification(Features),Difference between N95 & N96 and Some pictures of Nokia N96.



Specification:


The Nokia N96 Features the Following Specifications:

• Quad band GSM / GPRS / EDGE: GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800, GSM 1900
• Dual band UMTS / HSDPA: UMTS 900, UMTS 2100

• 3G and WLAN access.
• Mobile TV (network-dependent feature).
• GPS Navigation.
• Access to Ovi
• Instant upload to Flickr, Vox, Yahoo! and Google.
• Full-HTML browser.
• Symbian OS v9.3 S60 3.2 Edition, user interface.
• Up to 16 GB of internal flash memory.
• 2-way slide, as in Nokia N95.
• Expandable memory currently up to 24 GB courtesy of MicroSD cards.
• 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.
• 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.

Difference B/W Nokia N95 & N96:
There are the following differences b/w them:

• 6GB of integrated memory (as opposed to 8GB for N95 8GB), plus further extensibility via microSD memory card
• 2.8 inch display with 16 million colours (same as N95 8GB, versus 2.6" display for original N95)
• USB speed changed from USB 2.0 full speed to high-speed (more than 5x faster)
• Camera flash is a dual-LED in the N96 while it is only a single LED in the N95
• New audio DSP for improved audio quality and longer playback time
• New version of Nokia Video Centre
• Longer music playback time (14 hrs) and video playback time (5 hrs)
• Windows Media WMV9 video codec is added
• Hardware acceleration for video codecs for H.264 and WMV (as well as MPEG4 as before)
• Location tagging (geotagging) of pictures, using the integrated GPS
• Mobile TV DVB-H receiver is built into N96
• New release of Nokia Experience Software
  • Maps 2.0 with satellite images, upgrade to pedestrian mode and voice-guided car navigation
  • Internet Radio pre-installed
  • Home Media Solution (sync with CMLA / UPnP devices over WLAN)
  • Online sharing of pictures with plugins for Flickr, Ovi Share and other services (Can be added on N95 with newer version of Share Online Application)
• S60 3rd Edition is upgraded from Feature Pack 1 to Feature Pack 2
  • Symbian OS is upgraded from version 9.2 to 9.3
  • The J2ME engine is upgraded from MIDP 2.0 to MIDP 2.1
  • User data is preserved when upgrading firmware (This feature is also present on the N95-2 as v21 installs UDP base files)
• The FM radio is upgraded with RDS
• Limited graphics acceleration (only for internal apps)
• N96 is a dual-band HSDPA (900 and 2100 MHz) while N95 was a single band (2100)
• MicroSD memory card slot (as in original N95, while N95 8GB has no card slot)
• Same battery as original N95 (950 mAh), but the N96 has a much better battery life.
• No need to open the slide for optimal GPS reception
• Naviwheel (rocker has touch sensitive mode to scroll through music collection etc)
• New design
  • Landscape-oriented design (landscape oriented speakers, connectors and buttons located optimally for landscape use)
  • Flip-out kickstand
  • Media keys available in all modes (even when slide is closed, for background control of music)
  • Media keys on short side can transform into gaming keys
  • Lockswitch (enables quick lock / unlock of keypad)
  • Thinner and lighter than N95 8GB
• No infra-red port on N96