Nokia N96 belongs to the elite and extremely coveted set of phone series, the Nokia N series .Nokia N96 is a wonderfully designed smart phone compatible for 3G connections .The telling  feature of Nokia N96 is that it has an unimaginable 16GB of memory space for storage. Added to that it has multimedia features, this is considered fairly advanced by the possessing lot. With such features on your phone you will never feel the need of having any MP3 player or any mobile video player. Nokia N96’s 5megapixel camera is replete with umpteen number of setting usually  found in any digital camera, like the lens is auto focus and has auto exposure features coupled to it, dual LED flash provided lighten s up the pictures in dark settings. Nokia N96 has Bluetooth, advanced GPS to track and trace your path and integrated Wi-Fi as well for internet lovers.

Nokia N96 has an OS provided by symbian, a 128 MB RAM installed in it. Nokia N96 has an external look like a candy bar and a dual slide arrangement analogous to its previous design, the Nokia N95 with added rounded edges and a smooth face. This smart 3G phone is 4.1 inches in length, 2.2 inches in width and bears a height of 0.7 inches. It weighs a comfortable 4.4 ounces, but it can get tad bit clumsy while accommodating it in pants due to its shape. Nokia N96 has a non-touch sensitive screen which has a very good resolution of 240×320, producing images off a mixture of 16 million colors .The screen has a dimension of 2.8 inches and auto adjusts itself to ambient conditions which makes it more readable and watchable than any other phone. Moreover the default themes and screens provided can be customized by the user that suits him or her.

The package of a new Nokia N96 includes along  with the phone has a travel charger, separate car charger ,handset ,software CD ,reference user guide and video out cable .Below the display Nokia N96 has various navigation keys and few shortcuts like menu and clear button. More so there is a special multimedia key, tiny in size which will instantly take you to your music, video, and game files. However some users opine these buttons should have been slightly fanned out over the surface. The alphanumeric keypad provided can be accessed by pushing the screen upwards. The phone when used sidewise with its set of media keys changes the view to a much better landscape mode which increases the view area and size for various media files played.

Though Nokia N96 is a wonderful smart phone on its own accord it cannot be considered a substantial upgrade over its parent model Nokia N95 excepting the fact that it has got high storage space.