As has been the practice with Nokia recently, when a firmware comes out for one device, a few others get new firmwares too. After the N97, the N96 has been blessed with the v30 firmware. This release is a 6MB over the air download and makes the device faster and fixes a few bugs. Nevertheless, it is good to see Nokia not neglecting an old device which failed to take off.
The new firmware is available over-the-air (OTA) by simply pressing *#0000# from the standby screen and checking for updates. (Detailed …

Nokia has just rolled out a new firmware for the aging Nokia N96. The v20.050 firmware, up from v12, brings in a lot of bug fixes and improvements. The new firmware makes the device faster and brings additions like the standby email plugin to show your emails on the standby screen.
Audio Themes make an appearance, so does a menu to manage the slide. The battery management has been worked on, the camera has also been tweaked and the videos should now have lesser noise. All in all this looks like …

Its time. The winners of the N96 Challenge have been randomly selected with the help of Random.Org’s random number generator. The 5 of you lucky readers will receive a trial of the Nokia N96 courtesy the lovely people at WOM World Nokia. I will be contacting you via email shortly with instructions on how to get your devices.

Read on to find out if you won!

I have some amazing news for you, dear readers. If you recall I was participating in the Nokia N96 Challenge to win you 5 trials of Nokia N96. I have won! So that means five lucky people out of you will be getting their hands on a N96 soon.

At the start of the competition, I had outlined the ways in which you could win the trials:

Two N96’s will be raffled away amongst the commenters on any post on the entire blog, starting today.

As part of the N96 Challenge, I had asked all of you to send in your thoughts/reviews/opinions on anything mobile and we here we have someone who has made excellent use of the interpretation of the words - ‘anything mobile’.
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After a few exciting weeks of completing various tasks centered around the N96, like all good things - The N96 Challenge has come to an end. The competition was to win five N96 trials for you, the reader and we shall very soon find out if we have been successful. I can assure you that we tried our level best.

The first task was simple, I had to take geo-tagged phone of the Ninja and upload it via NokiaVine. My buddy Sartaj Gill risked all at the edge of a rooftop …

Moving on from the hardware aspect of the N96 in the N96 review series, this post focusses on its multimedia capabilities. The review will cover area like the Camera, Music and Video playback amongst other things.
To give you a bit of a background in these areas - the N96 boasts of a 5MP camera with dual LED, a 3.5 mm jack which also doubles as the TV-out slot, stereo speakers on the right hand side of the phone and lastly a kick stand attached to the back which allows the …

N-Gage has become a very integral part of Nokia’s Nseries range of devices, so much so that they have even positioned the N85 as a gamer’s device by giving it the tagline - ‘Gaming Now Made By Hand’. In this post we put the N96 against the N85 in order to find out if its the best gaming device after all. Aspects such as the screen, keypad and battery amongst other have been covered. Read on to find out which is the better N-Gage device.

I have had the N96 for a long time now and yet I had decided against reviewing. The reason was simple the firmware on the device was bad, to the point that it made using the N96 a complete pain. However, the much awaited version 12 firmware has come and all of that is thankfully history and the N96 has redeemed itself. The problem with the N96 has been the delay in its shipping (February announcement - September shipping) as well as the fact that Nokia launched the N85, a …

To the absolute joy of many N96 owners, the much awaited v12.043 firmware is now available both via the NSU and over-the-air (OTA). The NSU version is about 120MB while the OTA version is a around the 2.5 MB mark. This update brings improvements to the speed, camera, WIFI performance amongst other things and should transform the N96 experience for us. It will hopefully help realise its full potential, a definate must do.
Since the device supports user data preservation, theoretically all your data would be preserved. However, a backup never …