"Hundreds of our customers have paid Rs 4,000 to pre-book N96 and pre-bookings have
been better for N96 than for N95.
"Nokia had introduced pre-booking programme in India with N95 smartphone but did not give out the exact number.
It is estimated that N96 pre-bookings would be pretty close, if not more than what Apple iPhone listed.
Airtel alone registered around 200,000 pre-bookings for iPhone, only these were without any prior payment.
India, which overtook the US in the second quarter of last year to become Nokia's second-largest market, could be a good playground for N96 sales, according to Kishore.
"The N96 will be the first mobile device to offer a memory size of 16GB expandable to 24GB through an external micro SD card. There is no phone that can claim this feat."
Image: Nokia N96. | Photograph: Josep Lago/AFP/Getty Images
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