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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.

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!

Samsung have announced the new Samsung P960 mobile TV phone. Rather than being destined for the South Korean market, though, as Samsung’s previoius mobile TV phones have tended to be, the new P960 is aimed fairly and sqaurely at Europe, with Samsung proudly boasting that the P960 supports both the Euopean mobile TV standards (Digital Video Broadcast – Convergence of Broadcast and Mobile Service (DVB-CBMS) and Open Mobile Alliance Mobile Broadcast Service Enabler Suite (OMA-BCAST), in case you were wondering!)

The Samsung P960 is a slider, and you’ll be pleased to know that it has a few other tricks up its sleeve, too. An MP3 player with Bang and Olufsen amp, for example, a three megapixel camera, and a plethora of nifty mobile TV features, such as Tivo-esque time shifting and Picture In Picture (although quite how you see a miniaturised view of a TV programme on a screen that’s already only 2.6″ in size is anyone’s guess!)

More details and pictures of the Samsung P960 after the jump.