Nokia N86 8MP Preview-GSMArena

A preview of the Nokia N86 8MP by GSMArena staff. They start off by giving us an introduction of the Nokia N86 8MP in which they state that it’s been a while since they saw a cameraphone as revolutionary as the Nokia N86 8MP.

Nokia has been behind in the mega-pixel race for quite sometime and they still are. But the wide-angle, variable aperture, mechanical shutter camera changed the way we think of shooting stills with cameraphones much like the Omnia HD reshaped the digital video recording on a mobile phone.

The goodies on board the Nokia N86 8MP make quite a count, including but not limited to a 2.6-inch AMOLED screen, dual-slide form factor, an active kickstand, 8GB of internal memory, a microSDHC card slot, FM transmitter, Wi-Fi and GPS connectivity and a digital compass, a 3.5mm audio jack and TV out. There’s also quad-band GSM and tri-band HSDPA support for a truly worldwide voice and data roaming.

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Nokia N86 Review-Mobile Review

Eldar Murtazin, the creator of Mobile Review has written a review on the Nokia N86 8MP. He had written a preview of the Nokia N86 before but that was of a pre-production unit. Now since he has got his hands on the final release version of the Nokia N86 8MP, he has written a full-fledged review for us.

He starts off by saying Nokia planned to release the Nokia N86 8MP as the N85 8MP similar to the Nokia N95 8GB and N95. He says it may be because the users were disappointed with the issues of the N85 and Nokia didn’t want them to think that this handset was the same. Nevertheless, he says the N86 8MP has excellent build quality.

He says that the N86 8MP is a refurbished N85 both in terms of build quality and camera. It’s Nokia’s Imaging Flagship. Nokia says it doesn’t believe in the Megapixel race saying it’s better to focus on the Lens Quality, Algorithm etc.

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Touring With The Nokia N86 8MP in Helsinki

It’s been 2 days since the Nokia N86 8MP started shipping. Now Charlie over at NokiaConversations has managed to get his hands on a Nokia N86 8MP. So Charlie in order to mark the ocassion, went to Helsinki to take some pictures and videos with his brand new Nokia N86 8MP.

Charlie loved the Nokia N85 and he says the Nokia N86 8MP which is a tweaked N85 with a superb 8MP camera has now become his favourite device.

He has posted a video and several photos taken by the Nokia N86 8MP. He says he will leave it to the readers to judge the quality but he says don’t be too harsh as he is not a pro-photographer either.

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Nokia N86 8MP Camera Improved-Nokia N86 8MP vs Nokia N82

The staff over at All About Symbian (AAS), have done a review of the Nokia N86 8MP and this time it is done using the latest prototype.

They say that even though the Nokia N86 Camera lacks a Xenon Flash, it’s camera unit has the next level of performance with a bigger, better sensor, variable (and wider) aperture, wide angle optics and faster shutter speeds. This means that it will cope in dark situations even without the use of any flash.

They take the latest prototype of the Nokia N86 8MP and compare it to the king of Nokia cameraphones ie Nokia N82.

Here is a quote from the review and comparison:

“The limiting factor with most camera phone photos is that there’s simply not light registering on the small sensor for good indoor photos. So you get blurred images (a result of having to keep the shutter open for longer to gather enough photons) or ‘noisy’ images (a result of there simply not being enough photons captured to produce reliable and consistent colours). Or both.

The sensor in the N86 8MP is almost certainly bigger and more sensitive, plus the optics themselves are listed as ‘wide angle’ and the widest setting in the much trumpeted ‘variable aperture’ (f2.4) is half a stop wider than that (f2.8) in the fixed aperture N82, giving 50% more light in extreme conditions. It all adds up to better photos when the chips (and lights) are down.

See the example photos below, ripe for analysis. Firstly, a photo taken by the N86 8MP in normal indoor (but bright) conditions. Click through to see a typical snap from the N86 8MP in all its glory:”

Click here to see the review, comparison and picture samples

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Nokia N86 Extended Test

The folks over at Mobile Industry Review have done an extended test on the Nokia N86 and have published a review. They took the N86 to Prague to test it’s performance in real life conditions. They have also promised to add a video of the N86 showing lots of real life action.

They have stated booth the good and the bad of the N86.

Here’s what comes under the good category:

• Materials and Build Quality
• Screen
• Keypad
• Camera
• Call and Network Performance

Here are the things in the bad category:

• The Functions Keys
• Sunlight Legibility of Screen
• Memory Card Slot
• The Software

Head over to their site and post any comments, suggestions or questions. Read the review here

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