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Misc Features For business purposes Nokia has included Quick Office (read only) as preloaded content. You will have purchase the license for editing or creating new documents. A PDF reader and Nokia’s Zip file manager are also present. Aside from that all other basic apps like a converter, Calculator, Notes and a Calendar feature are also present and accounted for. Active Notes is still one of the handiest applications that Nokia came up with. Like the other N-Series and S60 handsets a text to speech feature is available to read out messages etc. Camera An autofocus Carl Zeiss lens with an 8 megapixel count is what the N86 is supposed to be all about. For the price, it should have been fitted with a Xenon flash but the LEDs will do. The features didn’t really strike me as anything grand as all of S60 handsets even some with 3MP cameras are equipped with the same. With handsets sporting smile, face and even blink detection, the N86 seems a little blah at first. Features do include an Auto-stitch Panorama mode like in Samsung handsets, but this one takes too long to process the full image. Reproductions on the other hand are quite good. Other options include Exposure, White Balance, a range of scene modes including Sports, Night and Macro as well as ISO settings. Battery The battery life is absolutely phenomenal. On a single charge I used the handset for over two days which included watching videos as well as using the camera. Talk time averaged at over four hours and 30 minutes which is great. The N86 will have a lot of other handsets eating its dust when it comes to this aspect of the handset’s functionality and features. The Bottom Line The Nokia N86 carries a price tag of Rs. 27, 359. For this price if you’re just looking for an 8MP camera phone there are better options. However, if you’re an existing Nokia user and are looking to upgrade to a better handset with a better camera then the N86 is a good choice. It doesn’t really offer too much more in the way of media as compared to even an N95 8GB for example except for the battery life and camera which has a larger pixel count and no additional features other than those almost all S60 handsets already have.  The Bottom Line The Nokia N86 carries a price tag of Rs. 27, 359. For this price if you’re just looking for an 8MP camera phone there are better options. However, if you’re an existing Nokia user and are looking to upgrade to a better handset with a better camera then the N86 is a good choice. It doesn’t really offer too much more in the way of media as compared to even an N95 8GB for example except for the battery life and camera which has a larger pixel count and no additional features other than those almost all S60 handsets already have. It’s a good handset but just a little pricey. I believe it would fare a little better were there at least a couple of free N-Gage games tossed in and the handset itself was a little slimmer and lighter. UPDATE - The Nokia N86 will be bundled with Try and Buy games out of which users will be permitted to select 1 full game for a free download. |
Tags: 8 Megapixel , Series 60
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