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If you’re thinking of buying a mobile phone for the man in your life this year, the choice can be overwhelming.

Fear not, that’s where we come in! We’ve compiled a list of ten of the best mobile phones that the man in your life should love.

Each of these phones is either gadget-laden, or offers a select number of features that performs exceptionally well.

So whether your man is into photography, playing games, listening to music or watching TV, there’s a phone for him in the following list that’ll make you the star of Christmas in his eyes!

All the fuss this past few weeks has been about the T-Mobile G1 Android pone, which was announced yesterday, but that doesn’t mean it’s the only phone in town. For instance, you’ll be able to buy the Nokia N96 in the UK in just two weeks’ time.

The N96 is Nokia’s new flagship phone, and features an unbelievable range of features. You’d expect things such as HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS,MP3 player and video recording (I can’t believe I’m so blase about all these features now!), but the N96 adds a few new features just for good measure.

For example, it comes with mobile TV, supports Flash video so you can watch YouTube, has a 16 million colour 2.8″ screen, and comes with built-in video acceleration chips for better video viewing and recording (it’ll record at 30fps in DVD quality) and enhanced 3D gameplay via the N-Gage platform.

In short, it’s like the N95’s bigger brother, with everything more refined and working perfectly. Although not quite as revolutionary as the N95 was when it was launched, the N96 is still miles ahead of most other mobile phones on the market.

You can preorder the N96 from Phones4U today, or else go and visit them in two weeks’ time and take one home with you.

Nokia have begun to really push their new Nokia N96, which should be released within the next few weeks. They’ve set up a fantastic promotional site called Face the Task (no, I don’t now why it’s called that either – maybe it’s the last domain name left in the world!), which sort of shows a bit of what the N96 can do, but more importantly, looks seriously cool! You can also enter a competition to win an N96 limited edition before the phone itself hits the streets.

You can see a clip from the Face the Task web site above, but this really is only a teaser – the full site is far more impressive.

More details of the Nokia N96 after the jump.

The Nokia N96, Nokia’s latest multimedia smartphone, will be released in just a few weeks’ time. Despite no official announcement from Nokia yet, we have it on good authority that the N96 will be released in August, which is perfect timing for your holiday.

Why for your holiday? Well, not so you can sit on the beach and take calls (though you could if you wanted to, but if you do, you should really think about getting a life!). No, the N96 is a multimedia powerhouse, and is perfect for capturing pictures, video, watching TV, sending your pics and vids directly to Flickr and YouTube – and it’ll even help you navigate your way around foreign cities.

No Nokia N96 review worth its salt would be complete without referring to its spiritual daddy, the hugely popular Nokia N95. The Nokia N96 offers similar features and a similar form factor to the N95, but with a much more mature platform (in other words, unlike the N95, it actually works without crashing!). However, it’s not, apparently, designed as the N95’s successor (largely because the N95 is still on sale!) Rather, it’s a video and mobile TV phone that just happens to include much of the N95’s functionality!

However, whereas the N95 was a revolutionary phone, the N96 is more evolutionary. The features of the N96 aren’t as world-shattering as they were when they first appeared a year earlier on the N95, leading some to question whether it was actually a boring phone.

Boring? GPS, 5 megapixel camera, mobile TV, video, HSDPA, WiFi, etc., etc., and we call that boring?! The N95 really did set the bar high!

Still, if you’re going to buy a new mobile phone, you need to know whether it’s going to be the phone for you. Only one way to find out – read on for our comprehensive Nokia N96 review!

Nokia have announced the Nokia N96 at the MWC 2008. The N96 is set to replace the hugely successful N95 (which has sold over 7 million units), and blimey, does it do it in style!

It comes in the same form factor as the N95, with the dual slide keypad (slide it down to get the keypad, and up to access the dedicated media keys), but looks so much sleeker.

It also offers the same enormous range of features. For those unaware of what they are, you get WLAN and HSDPA connectivity, MP3 player and aGPS all built-into the phone. You also get the same 5 megapixel camera as the N95, plus a flash and video light.

On top of the N95’s features, though, the N96 adds some of its own.

Nokia are on a bit of a roll at the moment, having just released the excellent Nokia N82, and now comes news of a possible forthcoming model, the Nokia N96. As you can see from the pics, the new form factor is a little, er, interesting. Featuring a slide out QWERTY keyboard that doubles as a keypad when turned vertically, the N96 is bound to cause a bit of a stir…

…or at least it would if it wasn’t a fake!