The Nokia N86 is touted as the phone for the photographer on the move. Nokia has always included a good quality camera in its phones and this is its first 8-megapixel version. It features a wide angle Carl Zeiss lens and has a dual LED flash with software that makes downloading images onto Flickr easy.
This slide top phone is packed with features and applications such as GPS, Nokia maps, 8GB memory, Wi-Fi and HSDPA, although its keypad is not the most attractive on the market, or the easiest to use. It is similar in many ways to the earlier N85 but slightly heavier with improved memory and camera.
The N86 is a fast, responsive mobile phone with a return to the universal 3.5mm jack point. The 2.5 inch screen is made more visible with the Advanced Matrix OLED technology. Design wise it is a sturdy enough phone available in grey or black metallic finish and comfortably fits into your hand, pocket or bag.
Slightly disappointing is its inability to connect to the popular Twitter and Facebook sites to download images, and the lack of a dedicated camera-operating button for taking pictures, lets the phone down a little.
The main selling point of this model is its photographic features. The results are comparable to many mid-range dedicated digital cameras and its video facility supports MPEG4, 3GP video capture and has a front facing lens for conference calling. There is also a decent multimedia system, which includes FM Radio with RDS and an integrated hands-free speaker.
