MUMBAI: Nokia, the world leader in mobile communications, launched its most advanced multimedia device-Nokia N96 in India on Tuesday.

The N96 will be available in the market from September 15 and its retail price is Rs 34,999.

The N96 will offer a memory size of 16GB that can be increased to 24GB with an optional microSD card, allowing consumers to store hours of media and entertainment on the go.

"In the Web 2.0 era, the new Nokia N96 places the power to shape in internet in your hands. Nokia N96 offers the most personalised mobile internet experience to date and it defines convergence by blending phone and multimedia options seamlessly," Nokia India Marketing Director Devinder Kishore said here.

The dual-side N96 is a perfect of style and cutting edge technology and represents a whole new chapter in mobile technology and is best optimised for superb web and entertainment.

The N96 can be store upto 18,000 songs, up to 20,000 images at 5 mega pixel, upto 60 hours of video or full length movies. With multifunctional media keys and a 2.8" screen, music, movies and games and will be available at the touch of a button.

"Nokia NSeries has always been at the forefront of innovation and has time and again added new paradigms to mobility and introduced devices that cater to the consumer aspirations," Kishore said.

The N96 boasts of a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, a dual LED flash and video light. It allows DVD like quality vedio capture at 30 frames per second. Users can enter the N-gage arena and challenge the world to wide array of game or even blog about their favourite games and chat online.

The N96 will come pre-loaded with the full length Bollywood blockbuster flick Om Shanti Om, 50 music videos, a mix of 100 evergreen Hindi and 100 hot English soundtracks and three country maps with a three month navigation license eight cities across India.

Nokia also launched Nokia N96 Gig is Big! Challenge, an online contest inviting enthusiasts across the country to discover the vast memory space of Nokia96.

"The interesting online initiative showcases the vast memory space of the Nokia96 and illustrates how consumers can best utilise it on a device," Kishore added.
Source : DNA