Nokia is meant for wireless or wired telecommunications. It produces mobile phones for every major market segment and manufactures products for every kind of individual and still it is manufacturing Nokia mobile phones including GSM, CDMA and W-CDMA (UMTS).

The Nokia N-series handsets are just masterpieces from the house of Nokia, with each and every handset holding very special kind of specifications by which make its user feels that they are class apart.

The effervescent Nokia N96 is a member of the popular N series mobile phone, it is also called a 3G smartphone which comes with easy to use features and high-end technologies. Here in other hand the Nokia N85 is also an astounding looking mobile phone which comes in a splendid high gloss black coloured framing which looks beautiful and comes with easy-to-use built in features.

As Nokia N85 is well equipped as a 3G smart phone it comes with a fully rechargeable battery which can provide up to 4.5 hours of WCDMA talktime 6.9 hours of GSM talktime or we can say approximately six hours of voice over IP talk time. Whereas the Nokia N96 is also a 3G smartphone which comes with the popular Symbian Operating system which completes with the S60 software. The highly reliable standard battery when fully charged can provide up to three hours of talk time or again we can say two hundred and twenty hours of standby battery time. This phone's battery time is fully dependent on the services and features which are being used in the mobile phone but there is a guideline to handle the sophisticated features of the mobile phone.

The Nokia N96 has an amazing camera features and camera settings this particular mobile phone's camera is really very attractive and marvellous. It has a 5 mega pixel camera with Carl Zeiss Optics Tessar Lens,Dual LED flash, autofocus, auto exposure, camera key, camera setting (Flash, self-timer, colour, white balance and contrast), video player, video recorder (MPEG4), video streaming, video stabiliser, video light, video settings (White balance and colour tone), it even also has a secondary VGA Camera, video calling, live TV broadcast(DVB H).

Whereas the Nokia N85 also has a 5 Mega pixel camera with Carl Zeiss Optics Tessar Lens but the camera features which has in this mobile phone are quite large in numbers and very tedious in nature. This phone has a CMOS Sensor, 20x Digital Zoom, autofocus with assist light system, Dual LED Flash, dedicated Camera Key, Slide Lens Cover, photo editor, photo gallery with navigation wheel scrolling, photo slide show with Ken Burn Effects and Sound, flash mode(on, off, auto and red eye reduction),White balance (sunny, cloudy, auto, incandescent and fluorescent), capture mode (still, sequence, video and self timer), colour tone (Sepia, normal, black and white,vivid and negative), scene mode (auto, portrait, landscape, close-up, sport, night and user-defined), video player in MPEG4, 3GP, H.263 and H.264, main camera video recording with 8x digital zoom, front camera video recording with 2 x digital zoom, video stabiliser, video light, video modes (auto and night), video streaming, video and picture Blogging, TV-out, video calling and picture caller ID.

The Nokia N85 has incredible five types of connectivity options, they are-3G HSDPA, Bluetooth, Micro USB Cable port, EDGE and WLAN Wi-Fi. The Nokia N96 also has five types of connectivity options, they are-3G HSDPA, Bluetooth with A2DP, USB Cable port, EDGE, WLAN Wi-Fi with UPnP Technology. It operates on the Quad Band technology network, Quad Band technology of GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800 and GSM 1900 and WCDMA. Whereas the Nokia N85 has only Quad Band technology which operates on the GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800 and GSM 1900 frequencies.

The Nokia N85 has the option for internet connection. Internet can be done by the Nokia Web Browser with Mini Maps, HTML,xHTML MP, CSS and WML. While on other hand, the Nokia N96 has three options for internet browsing, they are- Nokia Web Browser with Mini Maps, HTML, RSS Reader.

The Nokia N96 has seven variant types of messaging options, they are - SMS(Short Message Service) for text messages,MMS (Multimedia Messages) for illustrated messages, Email (in SMTP, IMAP4 and POP3), Email with attachments, popular picture messaging, instant messaging and predictive text messages. Whereas, the Nokia N85 has also has seven different types of messaging options, but these options are quite different from Nokia N96 options, they are-SMS (Short Message Service) for text messages, MMS (Multimedia Messages) for illustrated messages, Email in SMTP, IMAP and POP form, Email with attachments, Email with filtering, Wireless Email Support, Predictive text messages.