Nokia N86 Review

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Nokia presents the latest in the N line of phones with the N86 8MP. This is a good addition to the N line and comes fully with features that you will use to keep informed, stay entertained and keep in touch. This slider based phone measures 103.4x51.4x16.5mm and weights 149g which is stylish & compact and feels great to hold. The N86 comes with a 2.6-inch, QVGA AMOLED screen with 16 million colours which will provide you with a vivid and pleasant viewing experience. It also integrates an Active Matrix OLED technology with ambient light detector, orientation sensor and brightness control.

As to power management, the Nokia N86 is powered by a standard Li-lon 1200 mAh battery which will, depending on the different network, provide you with Up to 6h18 min (2G)/3h 54min (3G) talk time and Up to 312h(2G)/264h (3G) standby time, as well as up to 25h music play time. The battery is impressive as for a Smartphone, the more powerful a battery is, the better the user experience will be. Memory capacity is 8GB for the phone with 16 GB for Micro SD card support. For frequency, Nokia N86 uses a quad band network. Connectivity includes ...
... Bluetooth, WLAN, USB and also has GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA and GPRS for data classification.

Nokia provides you with a wide range of application in the N86. These programs will include, Adobe Flash, Java, Adobe Reader, Quick Office, Zip manager, Windows Live support, Nokia photos, download, N-Gage as well as Nokia Mobile search. The operating system is a Symbian OS that has automatic UI rotation, active standby and voice commands. For time management systems, you have the following: reminders, clock, and converter, calendar, written notes and to do list. For navigation, the N86 comes with GPS and Nokia Maps supported.

ForMusic lovers, you just can't miss Nokia N86. Nokia N86 comes with an FM radio, Nokia Music Manager and Player as well as Music Store support and podcasting support. The music playback formats including eAAC+, WMA, MP3, AAC and eAAC. Audio streaming is also included. The player also includes equalizer and playlists as well as graphics display and skins. Stereo Speakers, ringtones and 3D sound effects come standard. Voice and audio recording include text to speech, audio recording formats of WAW, AAC stereo and AMR with voice recorder and dialing. Email and messaging support includes SMTP, IMAP and POP 3 for email, MMS, SMS and IM support.

Check out the camera part of the Nokia N86 and it will please you with the features that it contains such as an 8 Megapixel camera with a resolution of 3264x2448 and also contains a Carl Zeiss optics lens with 20x digital zoom and image formats of EXIF and JPEG. Autofocus and a dual LED flash with wide exposure range. Included are 28mm wide angle optics, and a high speed shutter with panorama, still, self timer, sequence and video capture modes. The scene modes are sport, automatic, and close up, landscape, night, user defined and portrait. Colour tones include vivid, normal, sepia, negative and black and white.

Photo editor is on board as well as a rotating gallery, TV out, and direct printing. Your video camera gives you recording at 640x480 VGA with 30 fps. The front camera records at 353x288 pixels and 15 fps with a 2x digital zoom. The formats accepted are 3GP and MP4 as well as AAC stereo and AMR audio recording. Also included is a Real Player with a click length of 1.3 hours. There are several modes for video playback such as MP4, H.264, 3GP and H.263. You can see immediately why this phone is the next in line for the Nokia N crown. Nokia N86 was rated at 80 out of 100. This rating included functionality, design and ease of use.
Jerry Smith, the editor of http://www.mobilephoneonly.co.uk. An expert on mobile phone and an observer of UK telecommunication market. He writes reviews on latest mobile phones, and also suggests promotional deals and special offers from mobile phone retailers in UK.