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Rumor has it, Nokia will ship its follow up to its current top-of-the-line smartphone, the N95, next month. Release dates batted around the Internet rumor mill range from only a few weeks away, July 1st, to over a month a way, July 31st.

Called the N96 (of course), the new handset should go for around €550 unlocked, which is about $852 going by today's exchange rate.

The new Symbian-run device looks a lot like its predesor—it's a dual-slider that reveals a keypad when opened one way and audio controls the other—but is supposed to include several notable improvements, such as Feature Pack 2 of the S60 Third Edition interface, the addition of a DVB-H broadcast TV receiver, and 16GB of onboard memory.

There will also be a 5-megapixel camera, GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 3G, and a quad-band GSM cellular wireless radio.

For more on the N96, see here.