Nokia N86 Review

 Attractive like an uglified adaptation of the Nokia N85, the N86 is Nokia's aboriginal 8 megapixel camera phone. In fact, there are actual few differences amid the N85 and the N86. The N86 has a college resolution camera and added memory, but it's added and has an animal keypad.

Likewise, the N86 is actual agnate to the N96. The N96 is added acceptable looking, with a nicer keypad, a beyond screen, added anamnesis and is lighter; the N86 has a college resolution camera.

Now, both the N85 and N96 accept had some austere believability problems with the S60 3rd edition, affection backpack 2 operating system, and we bet that the N86 has the aforementioned issues. We can't candidly acclaim any of these phones, admitting the aerial spec. Nokia don't assume to be activity anywhere with the NSeries phones at the moment, with the barring of the Nokia N97, which is the alone Nseries buzz that we can acclaim with any enthusiasm.

Footnote: some bodies assume to be puzzled by our review. We are blood-warm about advising the N86, yet we accord it 4 stars out of 5. How can this be? The acknowledgment is that in agreement of specification, this is one of the accomplished blueprint phones available. Look at the account - it's got everything! But blueprint isn't everything, and this is area we alpha to abstract points. And there's a accepted affair that runs throughout this website - clashing assertive "review" sites, we don't aloof account the blueprint and enthuse about the product, we try to appraise how acceptable the buzz is "on the street", and we accept a able abhorrence to botheration phones, about acceptable they may be back they work. Hopefully this helps to explain why we anticipate that the N86 deserves 4 stars but we acclaim that you don't shop for it. What to shop for instead? Well, if you're advance from an N95 or similar, and you appetite the aforementioned affectionate of phone, again by all agency accept the N86. But if you appetite article better, again accept the N97.

Features of the Nokia N86 include:

• Series 60 Symbian interface (version 3.2)
• 8 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, Tessar lens, autofocus, dual led flash, 20x digital zoom
• Video camera: MPEG4/3GP VGA video capture at 640 x 480 pixels and 30 frames/second with digital stereo microphone (AAC format) and 8x digital zoom
• Front camera for video calling: 352 x 288 pixels, 15fps, 2x digital zoom
• Video and still image editors
• Display: OLED, 16 million colours, 240 x 320 pixels (2.6 inches)
• Digital music player (supports MP3/AAC/AAC+/WMA/AMR formats) with playlists and equalizer
• Stereo FM radio with RDS
• aGPS and GPS navigation with Nokia Maps and digital compass
• Voice commands
• Voice recorder
• Talking ringtone
• Integrated hands-free speaker
• Speed dialing
• Messaging: SMS, MMS, Email (support for attachments)
• Push to talk (PoC)
• Java games
• Memory: 8 GB plus microSD memory card slot (max 16 GB)
• Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR, USB 2.0, WLAN, TV-Out, 3.5 mm stereo headphone plug
• WAP, EGPRS class B, WCDMA/HSDPA (3.6Mb/s download)
• Quadband plus 3G
• Size: 103 x 51 x 18.5 mm
• Weight: 149g
• Talktime: 4.5 hours (3G) - 6.9 hours (2G)
• Battery standby: 363 hours