Nokia’s N-Series phones are excellent geek hardware, and, depending on who you ask, the best cell phones money can buy.   The new flagship in the N-Series is the N96, and, while it’s not exactly an iPhone killer, it does have three features we wish the iPhone had.

The first of these missing features is removable storage. While just about all of the N-Series devices have a small removable storage slot. That extra gig would really go a long way, especially on the iPhone, whose iPhoto and iTunes apps tend to overflow its 16 GB solid state storage.

Another feature we’d love to see on the iPhone is the digital television tuner that comes standard on the European version of the N96.  With the iPhone’s large screen, watching TV would be more fun than on the N96’s little postage stamp screen.

Of course, the iPhone’s camera leaves a lot to be desired, while the N96 sports a Zeiss Optics 5+MP job with a built-in flash. And it will record video, to boot. Let’s see if  Apple is able to work any of these features into the next iPhone bump.

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The great thing about the Nokia N-Series of cell phones is that it offers so many choices.  The N-Series offers a media-savvy phone with a killer 5 megapixel camera (the N95), an NGage-equipped phone with a built-in gamepad on the earpiece (the N81 8GB, above), and even a phone with a built-in digital TV tuner (the N96).  The stuff Nokia is throwing at us with the N-Series is undeniably cool.

But how does the N-Series stack up against Apple’s latest offering and current King of Cool, the second-generation iPhone 3G? Read on to find out.

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