The Indian market for GPS-enabled devices is now at $22 million mark, and it is likely to reach $448 million in next three years. So Big mobile companies are targeting India as a big market for their products. Meanwhile, Nokia has launched one more model in its N series mobile sets. It is ‘N78′ which is complete a multimedia mobile phone with crystal clear music, user friendly navigation, a good camera for photography and mobility. Nokia is looking at the next generation of internet that has evolved towards social networking or Web 2.0 where people can participate and share their experiences through communities such as Facebook and Flickr. The main target of this handset is tech savvy youth of India.The most striking feature of N78 is the ‘location tagger’ application, which automatically tags location data to the picture, allowing users to save picture by date and by geographical coordinates. The new handset also offers the full suite of Nokia services such as Nokia Maps and integrated A-GPS.

N78 comes in two colors: cocoa brown and lagoon blue and sports a signature sleek black surface. It is the slimmest N-series handset with a 2.4 inch screen. It also come with high speed connectivity with wireless local area network and a 3.5G High-Speed Downlink Packet Access, a 3G mobile telephony communication protocol. It has a 3.2 mega pixel camera pre-loaded with Nokia maps of eight cities which is enabled with global position system. The N78 is also the first mobile phone to feature widgets such as Weatherbug and RSS feed that are enabled by Web Runtime technology. It also supports microSD cards up to 8GB, internal speakers, and standard 3.5mm headphones.

With this handset, you will also get Nokia Original Accessories like Nokia Stereo Headset WH-600 and the Nokia Bluetooth Speakers MD-7W. The headset has a headband style while the Bluetooth Speakers feature a click-and-go magnetic attachment system allowing consumers carry their music with them. It is available in Indian market for Rs 19,999.

Other features of N78 are ::

Size: 113 x 49 x 15.1 mm, 76.5 cc
Weight: 101.8 g
Display Size: 240 x 320 pixels, 2.4 inches
Display Colors: TFT, 16M colors
Total Memory: 70 MB internal memory 96 MB SDRAM memory
Camera Mega Pixels: 3.15 MP, 2048×1536 pixels, autofocus,
Camera Zoom: Yes
Video Capture: video(VGA 15fps), flash; secondary CIF videocall camera
Standby Time: Up to 320 h
Operating Frequency: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 HSDPA 2100 / 900
Talk Time: Up to 4 h 20 min
GPS Built-in GPS receiver
Music Player: Yes
FM Radio: Yes
Games: Yes + Java downloadable
Ring Tones: Polyphonic (64 channels), MP3
3G: HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps
OS: Symbian OS, S60 rel. 3.2
interface: Icon Grid
EDGE: Yes
Java Technology: Java MIDP 2.0