Nokia's coming soon flagship multimedia computer, the Nseries N96 may well hit the UK on 31 July if a pre-order page on Play.com is to be believed.

The new handset is being offered on a pre-order basis for £599 for an unlocked SIM-free model. Official pricing given when the phone was announced was 550 euros (approx £435) pre-tax.

The dual-sliding N96 will offer a DVB-H TV tuner for live TV broadcasting, a 2.8-inch screen, 16GB of internal memory, WLAN and HSDPA support, the Nokia Maps application with AGPS, a 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, flash and video light and video capture.

At launch, Nokia said the N96 is expected to begin shipping in the third-quarter of 2008.

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