Nokia N96 (24GB)

The N96 (24GB) is a much more modern and sleek device. The front side of the phone has a QVGA display with 16 million colours. At the top of the handset there is a pinhole that has a VGA camera and earpiece. Below is the navigational cluster, which houses right and left soft keys, the five-way d-pad, send, end, menu and clear keys and a multimedia key. Hidden keys comprises with multimedia playback controls, which sit outside the four corners of the d-pad and illuminate when the keypad lights up. The menu and clear keys are located on the corners. The keypad is also a bit too wide. A downward slide changes the screen to landscape and reveals four media keys. The black face of the phone is offset by the silver housing surrounding the N96. The right side of the phone features stereo speakers at the top and bottom corner. It also houses the volume rocker and camera key. On the left side of the phone there is simply the covered microSDHC slot. The card sits a bit too deep in the phone. On the top is a lock switch, the 3.5mm headphone and output jack and the power and profile button, and on the bottom is the microUSB data port and the 2mm pin charging port. The power button is too small. The camera is located at the back side of the phone.

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The battery life is not good. Music player is good with good sound quality. Camera is also good. No problem is experienced with the call reception. Keys of the keypad and the side buttons are hard to press.

Music player is well laid out and sounds great. Camera quality is good. Sound quality is top notch.

Design is big. Keypad is pretty lousy. Side buttons can be hard to operate.

Nokia N96 (24GB) is a 3G smartphone that comes complete with user friendly features.