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Just to let you know, the Nokia N95 8GB will soon be available in the U.S. with six months of free turn-by-turn directions and voice guidance in Nokia Maps.

"Now with A-GPS, Nokia N95 8GB owners can quickly navigate to their locations using Nokia Maps faster and can access maps for over 150 countries, including a selection of preloaded US state maps. The Nokia N95 8GB will also support Nokia Share Online 3.

Nokia presents its two new flagship handsets for 2008, the N96 and N78. Both were showcased today at Mobile World Congress. The Nokia N96 is an update to the N95 model and is very similar outwardly to the N81. The N78 is a bar-style phone similar to the N73.

Common features include:

• Quad-band GSM/EDGE networks;
• QVGA display;
• Wi-Fi, GPS;
• N-Gage platform support;
• Stereo Bluetooth 2.

Nokia signed a cooperation treaty with YouTube to bring videos to Nokia Nseries devices. The videos will be accessible using a Nokia Web Browser with Mini Map and YouTube's mobile site. As well, YouTube video RSS feeds will be compatible with Nokia's new Video Center application. YouTube's main site uses Flash video but the new mobile site will utilize H.264 /AVC.