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Nokia held another five hour sale short sale at its Flagship stores as well as online. So this means Nokia is actually venturing further into the realm of reaching out to your customers. Good. The handsets that were up for sale included;

• 5800            $280.00
• E63              $195.00
• E66              $275.00
• E71              $285.00
• E75              $380.00
• N79              $260.00
• N85              $330.00
• N95 8GB    $355.00
• N96              $440.00

These prices actually give 30%-35% discounts on normal retail prices, which is a bigger discount than the previous three-hour sale. Now let’s see when Nokia does a whole day and we’ll be really smiling with all the glee out there.

Nokia has a special treat for all you karate fans out there. The Finnish company has brought out a special edition N96 to honor the memory of the legend Bruce Lee.  Just to be specific, you will be getting excited about the Nokia N96 Bruce Lee Special Edition. Gotta love the holidays.

The phone has an etched image of Bruce Lee along with his signature on the back case. There are also other accessories included to make this an offer to remember for all fans of the martial arts master. Considering that the N96 is no less of a legend itself, the combination is a pretty fair one.

Ready to buy, here’s the website for the purchase. A word of caution would be to keep alongside a friend who knows Chinese, you’ll need the help in navigating the website.

The N96 is a sleek dual slide design that is not only a clever invention, but also makes the cell easier to use. It is Nokia’s latest 3G smartphone featuring an upgrade of Series 60 from 3.1 to 3.2. It is part of Nokia’s extremely popular n-series and is the direct successor to the N95.

It has a color TFT display screen on the N96 is a large 6.1 inch diagonal display and displays up to 16 million colors on a QVGA LCD screen with a screen resolutions are 240 x 320 pixels. Like the N81, everything on the N96 is flush except the Directional Pad and the Multimedia Key. This gives it a much lighter appearance and minimalistic look than the N95.

The N96 has been packed with the latest features. It has the latest N-Gage gaming support. Nokia has basically tried to and succeeded at removing all the flaws from the N95. While the N95 had been adored for the innovative features it brought, the N96 will gain fan fare for its refinement. Despite being slightly bigger and bulkier than its older brother, but it has a slicker shinier surface, the hinges move like silk so you get easy slides. It has built-in memory of 16 GB and microSD support. There is touch pad navigation, a built-in quick stand for viewing videos. Nokia has put in a 5 megapixel Carl Zeiss lens camera.  Hence image capturing is much better than it used to be, improving both picture as well as video quality. There is integrated DVB-H tuner for Mobile TV so it’s not a complete reincarnation. Also, the N95 had corners like a tin can. The N95, thankfully, has rounded smooth corners.

Now for the price banger. Considering that the N96 is really an upgrade to the N95, and there’s a lot left to be wanting still (such as a touch screen maybe) Nokia is asking for a hefty $900-$1000 price. Users in Europe and Asia Pacific who have used it are somewhat satisfied, but that really is a result of what you wanted from your smartphone to begin with. The rather larger size may make it a not-so-popular smartphone for ladies. If you’d like, you can see the N96 demo.

N96 Spec:

1.      OS Symbian interface version 3.1 with S60 software

2.      5 Mega-pixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, Tessar lens, Dual LED Flash & Auto exposure

3.      Video camera MPEG4, video player & video streaming, stabilizer & light

4.      Separate camera for video calling

5.      DVB H for Live TV broadcasts

6.      2.8 inch QVGA TFT LCD display with 16 million colors & 320 x 240 pixels

7.      Built in GPS satellite navigation with maps of 150 countries

8.      Music player supports MP3, Eaac+, AAC+, AAC & WMA formats with Album Art, Nokia music manager, playlists & equalizer

9.      Built in FM radio with Visual Radio support

10.  Nokia radio via internet

11.  Polyphonic & MP3 ringtones

12.  Voice activated name dialing, voice recorder & voice commands

13.  Speed dial

14.  Messaging SMS, MMS, Email (IMAP4, POP3, SMTP) with attachments & Instant & picture messaging

15.  Built in Java games & downloadable games

16.  Personal organizer with Phonebook, calendar, converter & Notes

17.  Push to talk & conference call

18.  16 Gigabytes of memory with MicroSD™ Memory card slot & 256 Mb system memory & 128 Mb RAM

19.  WLAN Wi-Fi, 3G, HSDPA & Bluetooth® with A2DP & USB connectivity

20.  EDGE Technology

21.  Quad band 1900, 1800, 900, 850 GSM & WCDMA networks

22.  HTML, RSS reader & Nokia web browser

23.  Talk time 3 hrs

24.  Standby 220 hrs

25.  Size 18 x 49 x 103mm

26.  Weight 125 grams