Nokia N86

Nokia N86 Review – Keeps You Informed, Entertained and In Touch

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. Nokia N86 is a slider based phone that measures 103.4x51.4x16.5mm and weights 149g. The screen on this camera phone is 2.6 inches and a 320x240 QVGA screen with 16 million colors. It also integrates an Active Matrix OLED technology with ambient light detector, orientation sensor and brightness control.

The power management on the N86 has a standby of 363 hours for the WCDMA and for GSM is also 363 hours. Talk time will be VoIP rated at 11 hours; GSM will have 6.9 and WCDMA of 4.5 hours. You also have video playback time of 7 hours for VGA. Music playback will equal 30 hours total. Included is a browsing time of 7 hours and 3 hours of video call and recording. Memory capacity is 8GB for the phone and 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.

You have a full range of applications with 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. This phone also includes GPS and Nokia Maps with compass.

Music lovers, this is the phone for you. Included are an FM radio, Nokia Music Manager and Player as well as Music Store support and podcasting support. The music playback formats include 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. Color 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.

Specifications:

2G Network	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network	HSDPA 900 / 2100
	HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100 - American version
Announced	2009, February
Status	Available. Released 2009, June
Dimensions	103.4 x 51.4 x 16.5 mm, 69 cc
Weight	149 g
Type	AMOLED, 16M colors
Size	240 x 320 pixels, 2.6 inches
	- Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate - Scratch-resistant surface
Alert types	Vibration; Downloadable polyphonic, MP3 ringtones
Speakerphone	Yes, with stereo speakers
	- 3.5 mm audio jack - Dedicated music/gallery keys
Phonebook	Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records	Detailed, max 30 days
Internal	8 GB storage, 128 MB RAM
Card slot	microSD, up to 16GB, buy memory
GPRS	Class 32
EDGE	Class 32, 296 / 177.6 kbits
3G	HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps
WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, UPnP technology
Bluetooth	Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
Infrared port	No
USB	Yes, v2.0 microUSB
Primary	8 MP, 3264x2448 pixels, wide 28mm Carl Zeiss lens, autofocus, dual LED flash
Features	Variable aperture, geotagging, ISO 800
Video	Yes, VGA@30fps
Secondary	VGA videocall camera
OS Symbian	OS v9.3, S60 rel. 3.2
CPU	ARM 11 434 MHz processor
Messaging	SMS, MMS, Email
Browser	WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
Radio	Stereo FM radio with RDS; FM transmitter
Games	Yes, N-gage + downloadable
Colors	Indigo Black, White
GPS	Yes, with A-GPS support; Ovi Maps 3.0
Java	Yes, MIDP 2.1
	- Dual slide design - Digital compass - WMV/RV/MP4/3GP video player - MP3/WMA/WAV/RA/AAC/M4A music player - Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF) - Voice memo - Kickstand - Flash Lite 3.1 - TV-out
Battery	Li-Ion 1200 mAh (BL-5K)
Stand-by	Up to 312 h (2G) / 264 h (3G)
Talk time	Up to 6 h 18 min (2G) / 3 h 54 min (3G)
Music play	Up to 25 h