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Preview Summary:Nokia N86 8MP 3.5

Boasting the first 28mm wide-angle lens in any mobile phone, the Nokia N86 is an attractive prospect. The 8MP camera comes with a Carl Zeiss lens, and a fast mechanical shutter that rids your snaps of motion blur. 8GB of internal storage means you can even afford to keep a host of pictures, as well as videos and music.

Unfortunately the N86 doesn't come with a flash, which makes the camera fall short of perfection. It's also a rather bulky handset at 149g, but a good range of applications atones for these shortcomings.

Having finally broken their 5MP rule, Nokia bring us the N86, their first ever 8MP camera phone. Integrating similar stylings to the N96 with its 2 way slider and ´kick stand´, the N86 sets its self in the media/business market but unfortunately the phone really isn´t that much to write home about. The only real development is the camera and although Nokia´s functionality and ease of use are present there is no touch screen and the phone is fairly drab to look at.

But let´s focus on the positives, firstly that 8MP camera with Carl Zeiss lens. The N86 boasts the first 28mm wide angle lens in any mobile phone and has a fast action (1/1000th sec) mechanical shutter reducing motion blur. The N86 also possess a large 8GB memory plus a MicroSD card slot to increase it for storing all those 8MP pictures, videos and films. With a 3.5mm headphone jack any set of standard headphones can be used which is bonus with any media phone and if you are listening to your music out loud it can be done either through the stereo speakers or using the FM transmitter to play through the car or home stereo.

The N86 runs on the S60 Symbian smart phone operating system and comes with a good selection of applications including Personal Information Management tools (email pushing, calendar and appointment syncing), GPS (and consequently Geotagging) and a built in Digital compass for navigating the old fashioned way. The N86 is also fully integrated with Nokia´s OVI apps store where new applications can be purchased.

Specifications

  • Size: 103 x 51 x 17mm
  • Weight: 149g
  • Battery: 6.3hrs talk time / 315 hrs stand by
  • Memory: 8GB plus MicroSD and SDHC
  • Display: 2.6inch, 240 x 320 pixel
  • Camera: 8MP, Auto focus, Video Stabilizer, Flash: Dual LED, Digital zoom, Geo tagging, White balance, Multi shot, Additional camera for video calls, Self-timer, Panorama
  • Connectivity: GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA 1.8 Mbit/s/HSDPA 3.6 Mbit/s
  • Media: MPEG4, RealVideo, WMV, H.263, H.264, Flash Video , Media Player, MP3, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, WMA, AMR, Stereo FM Radio with RDS

Although Nokia have now broken that 5MP barrier, we can´t help but feel it´s at the expense of other areas of this phone, most noticeably the design of the handset itself. With no touch screen and no flash (a huge surprise considering the quality of the camera and lens) the 8MP seems fairly insignificant in the end. Although the N86 is a good mid range phone, we can´t help but feel, if Nokia had taken a bit more time and effort with the design and incorporated a touch screen, it could have been something really special.

Latest Nokia N86 8MP News

01 June 2009 by Best Mobile Contracts
Mobile companies always produced the mobile phones in competition. These have always enriched their phones with some new feature or enhance the existing feature to make their product look unique. This fight has never stopped but the subject of fight has been different at different times. For example...
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21 May 2009 by Best Mobile Contracts
Nokia has recently launched its 8-megapixel mobile phone at the Mobile World Congress. This phone will be rolled out in the market from the second quarter of 2009, at 375€ (excluding taxes and other subsidies). The new Nokia N86 8MP on contract phone comes with a 2-way slide dual-mode mobi...
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18 May 2009 by Best Mobile Contracts
Nokia has recently launched its 8-megapixel mobile phone at the Mobile World Congress. This phone will be rolled out in the market from the second quarter of 2009, at 375€ (excluding taxes and other subsidies). The new Nokia N86 8MP on contract phone comes with a 2-way slide dual-mode mobi...
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29 March 2009 by Best Mobile Contracts
Nokia is a mobile company that has always manufactured its models keeping in mind the requirements of their users and it is because this reason that Nokia has been able to gain trust of its users. Nokia has produced N86 mobile with all those advanced features which make Nokia N86 a unique model as c...
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25 March 2009 by Best Mobile Contracts
Just as any other N series mobile phone, Nokia N86 8MP also brings you everything you aspire for in a mobile phone. If you ask me what I liked the most about this mobile phone, my Nokia N86 8MP reviews will point out everything ranging from an 8 megapixel camera to media sharing in the most comforta...
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