Last year we decided that after nearly four years ago a new phone must, as I have no digital camera and would leave anyway always home I decided to use a mobile phone with a camera. After long search I found the Nokia N86 with an 8 megapixel camera.

Nokia N86 Reviews Reviews Nokia N86 8MP

Price

The Nokia N86 with O2 8MP we have purchased in the Online Shop. There we paid € 399 plus € 4 shipping.

Delivery

The package contained the following:
- The Nokia N86 8 MP and battery
- PC USB Cable
- Charger
- Headphones
- Instructions
- N Gage Code (to activate a game)
- Ovi and Nokia Software

Technical data

Here at Ciao all the technical data relates to the phone, so I will this not again list. I think that it also understands that the report would just blow up. It is supposed to be about experience and no technical documentation be. Here it is only in short to the 8GB internal memory on this phone features.

Look / design

The Nokia N86 51 mm wide, 19 mm deep, 103 mm high and weighs 149 g. Weight: 149 g. I think it is for a modern mobile phone quite difficult and large, but despite all this, it fits well in hand.

The mobile phone is a dual slider phone which is down to the keyboard slides out and pushes it up out the operation for the music player. To display around the menu buttons are held in high gloss black. The 2.6 inch display is very big and is like the menu buttons very vulnerable for fingerprints. On the other side is located under the button for the keypad, the Camera shutter and volume control (when using camera zoom). Up on the phone is the on-off switch, the port for charging and USB cable and the

Port for headphones.

On the back is the camera that is protected by a slide. In addition, next to it are two adjacent flashlights. On the cover of the Camera is located under the information, that this is Carl Zeiss and how many mega pixels This has. To the camera is a narrow black frame made of plastic, with which one can stand up to the phone, for example, are videos. I am with the look of the Nokia N86 so far very satisfied with the button layout is good, the Display good size everything very clearly. What bothers me a bit is the weight, and I am quite used to it quickly have.

Menu

To get into the menu and navigate the Nokia one, how should I say, square frame. Every corner in one direction and the middle is the OK button, and they also confirm e.g. the menu is ok, and confirms the underlying key the ok. So it is all self-explanatory.

In the menu are some applications that can be directly so close, and some can be only under the “Options” Stop. At first, I am therefore less clear come, and so I made some applications only the surface, but these were in Background even further. To determine which programs are still running can be for hold for several seconds, the Menu button, then the programs appear are still open. Or, you can just click the menu button and then click Options, and here you can open programs show.

Here in the Options menu, it is possible to create new folders or to the To move the program – download to retrieve or change the menu view.

The menu is clearly arranged, and at the beginning for me only once getting used to, as I previously had Sony Ericsson. But after some testing, and I got used to try turn quickly.

Phone

Probably the most important on a cell phone. This phone is clearly adopt green / red and end the call, even to the directory you quickly and easily. Now, as I will, however, heard and what I hear? So my party hear I always clear and not too loud and not too quiet, the setting is optimal. Now I can even ask my friend during the call louder or turn down the volume set just above the switch on the side of the phone. My conversation partner, I hear no noise, acoustic noise, or other Disorders just as it must be clear and distinct. Most of the voices heard on Telephone eh already differently, but here you can say only a small notice Difference between the original voice. See here, there are not set!

Battery

Well now the battery lasts long, I’d say a week. Here I play now and then do sometimes a snapshot on the phone, just as moderate, and keeps the battery 5 days, or even longer. So when my old phone was a game of 30 minutes and the battery only a quarter full, at the Nokia there’s not much shrinkage is visible from the battery, However, I have not found any indication, where I can see what percentage the battery has to power. But it lasts a long time and this is important.

General settings

Here one has the typical settings such as ringtone, key tone, warning tones and the Background. Even the menu can be selected in list form, V shape or horseshoe shape. Even among the tones you can notice some issue separately, it bugged me always Clapping when I’m pushed to the phone. It was not until I had completely the advisory tones Off, but suddenly I had no camera sound anymore, so I switched only they regard tones from which I do not want to. In the ring tone and alarm tone can be the Adjust the volume as well as generally for the call.

You can set the phone to Offline, then one can not call or a call, you can then just listen to music, playing just the cell phone signal is gone. If you do not feel like it rings constantly we can also provide Silence. Even after all this time, as I have the phone already, I do not have all the Settings try and find now and again a new, just as with the Beeps. I think the possibilities for a cell phone today and find great no negative aspects. However, had my Sony Ericsson before a flashlight under the settings this is unfortunately not available, you or I have not yet found.

Applications  general

It’s amazing what it so everything is on the phone, there is a small program office, a PDF reader, Zip program and clearly a Real Player. Here I must confess that I, have in addition to the Real Player or used any of the other programs, really. Here I have reingeschaut only short times and found it similar to the PC as well as anyone Office of the uses on the PC is clearly with the mobile office, because it is very clearly designed. Clearly there is then the standard programs such as Clock / alarm clock, calendar, messages, these are very clear and self explanatory programs actually in each Phone are similar to the same.

Maps

This phone also has tickets so maps. Here I have ever address our Posted, most Navis not find the street, but the card was exactly our Street and house number in, I was thrilled. Here, however, one should be cautious because according to Nokia, the mobile chooses one appropriate to the Internet. In search of the road It is with me but not so far been the case. This is one but then in the form indicated by a small bar and KB status if data are drawn from the Internet.

Contacts

The Nokia phone has a very clear what is his can search caller through the first letter of the name. Actually, as with any cell phone, too. One must look for long, the display is equal to the reference to the contacts to see.

Communications

Again, it’s like my old Sony Ericsson, there is an Inbox folder, Output, posted, write drafts, mail and reports and new message. The benefit of the folder it is clear from the name. The writing of an SMS is just one has the T9 and can help even without this Writing. Here, no one needs to look in the help, to write an SMS. Well who writes for the first time a text has to first take a small Overview, but have all used this feature many times, somehow is equal to any mobile phone.

N Gage & Games

On the Nokia pre-installed some games, here is something for everyone in total there are 20 games, but only trials. Here we have one of Nokia Code to receive a free game to turn freely. The other one would have Buy

What to N Gage is now to be different than in normal games I can not say, because I noticed no difference. Okay you can rotate the phone and in landscape orientation play that goes with other games though, too.

Now on my old phone I had some games which I bought some time or just got sent this I have all sent to the Nokia. This I had to install them yet, and looked only not bad, because in Games folder I could not find the games. Anything that does not include N Gage games will be installed in the Applications folder. This I can play all normal. With the control you get great clear and beautiful it also reacts quickly. Here I complain to if anything.

Photo & Video

Yes, my camera was on the phone more important than the other functions, for a mobile phone I’m always with a digital camera I would take probably only on special occasions with. The camera has an 8 mega pixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens. At the first pictures I found that the quality is super, and I noticed is that the pictures with flash are not as nice as the no. The flash is automatically set, and sometimes not even need this one. Even at night in the room with light switches in a lightning, but the pictures without the flash look more natural.

This is of course also to the space exposure. That’s right, I can not explain it. I will report this two pictures with my Orchid reins out, then you see what I mean exactly. The zoom is great, I have used in my old mobile phone shall have the zoom one in the pictures seen much too many pixels. Here I have zoomed our icicle photographed, and it looks completely normal, super! Also you can make great panoramic pictures with your phone, here is the Quality nothing wrong. The images can be the requester, such Contrast, brightness, or insert some witty things. So you have almost no longer use photo-editing program on the PC.

As already mentioned, I am very satisfied with the quality of what I though a little notice is negative, the red tones are a little changed, this can be but with the Editing change, however, and it is only minimal, some people are not even aware of it. The mobile phone offers so-called scene modes, this can allow a one off Landscape, would like to make close-up or similar, so you do not need Extra settings. If you want to, for example, Sepia or Black and White Take pictures, you can adjust this setting as the Custom. The phone has a VGA 640 x 480 1.3 MegaPixel camera that should be. Although I must say that the quality is super. Here you can have some Settings such as video light, white balance, night or daytime images. I had a made small text video and I watched on the PC and TV, and it’s okay clearly no comparison to a real video camera, for that is the size a little too small. But the picture and sound quality is good and for private pictures for me sufficient.

Also has a mobile phone via a second camera for video telephony, the images are plain and simple. Not pixelated, but also no high-resolution quality. This camera I’ve tested only briefly, because I do not use video calling and thus not this camera. As mentioned before you can view the pictures via slide show and the Handy to stand with the stand. As soon as you flip them the stand to get there equal in the gallery of images us videos, so have to get the phone is not constantly in the Hand hold.

Music player and headphones

The player is very clearly arranged, here you can by albums, playlists, Genre or artist sort. But beware, if you just songs from PC draufgespielt on the mobile phone, you have this update under “Options” again until otherwise the new songs are not displayed. can you can hide the player, that is, music is playing on the phone but we all Normal browse continue in the menu. But here is the example of what I already have mentioned, the player can only be under the “Options” right exit.

As mentioned earlier, the phone has a double slider, slide it down so get there directly to the player control buttons and can start this way. In addition to the player, there is the Internet radio and the music store, both I not yet been used and can not report this experience.

Yes, there are also the good old radio, here you can enter his FM station manually or be looking for. The quality is super, but we have the only one I tested I also use the radio, we had to turn the headphones have an antenna. The headphones have a detachable remote control with which one can control the player. There are three different sizes of plugs for the headphones, this would directly into the ear hole stuffed. Shame is ihh. I must say, this technique of ear plugs I despise not. If I get those things then finally stuffed into your ear, it does not have long time until this rausflogen. I could try each size did not work. So for me those things are completely negative, because I can not use them.

Compounds

Bluetooth

Sure, we have tried out with first. Send data back and forth to make almost all With a mobile phone. Here you can send data without having to activate Bluetooth, would like to receive data, so you have to activate Bluetooth and switch to Visible. I think the connection works without problems and even greater weiterr data is quite shipped quickly. At any rate much faster than my old K750i. Also one must not necessarily be in the same room to get the data or Or send.

W-Lan

This is crazy I can with the phone via DSL and surf my wireless router and must therefore not via the phone network to the Internet. Here you have a connection manager of all displays available wireless networks, then you need only select the network be Enter the password and save wop and now you can surf the Internet. One remembers little different to normal browsing just only the display much more is smaller than the PC monitor. The connection is just as fast. Simply misleading.

USB

I plug the cell phone is now on the phone to my PC as a phone, including Memory and once recognized as a mass, like a USB stick too. Here I can dig into each folder and for example my movies or photos . View Access to the data quickly, just like a good USB stick. Nor can it via USB with the Nokia Ovi software communicate, but I will get to again later if it goes directly to the software.

Manual

The manual is described in the coarse and whole in some detail. The Most common things are here in great detail described us to understand. Here we have a small table of contents and what may not be missing the Safety instructions. Just a typical guide for a technical device. What I noticed is that some issues do not occur in the instructions. I had I grabbed a game via USB to my phone in the download folder and tried it now in Phone call, but I was just not the folder. In the tutorial I was looking for in vain for help, the phone is also an additional help which I then become even find bin in the file manager in the mobile phone could I then to my game Installation available. Only then did I not always the file manager that I could always call the help function. In the manual there was nothing to the file Manager. So I combed through every single menu item and then find it was. Some things should be just short and few in the instructions, but some do not indoors is a great pity. That is what the manual is without question top and described in understandable, even technically untalented can comprehend and understand the content.

Cleaning

Since the phone has a very smooth surface, it can also be cleaned more often times. For this I am quite normal glass cleaner and a Mircofasertuch, spray the cloth One and then wipe the phone properly from when I was ill I have even cleaned with disinfectant. This I do with all mobile phones, for a report in the TV once all the germs that has enumerated put in cell phones is to me because of the disgust factor remembered. On my display I have in addition a film which the screen from scratches to protect the cell phone should last a long time and therefore also look good.

Ovi PC software

The Ovi software is used to exchange data with the PC off. I installed the software Lappi on my Vista and wanted to eventually test and images on the same PC was to send, as only once a nice message this was not possible to need the software updates, okay this I then downloaded and installed this took a whopping 45 minutes long as needed, not even the first installation. This made it possible I have to replace the images and data. The software is easy to use and also the Help this is great says, so I guess this is someone with less experience, a This is clear prima little time.

I then wanted to install the software on my PC update, here is however Win XP on it. As with my laptop, I started the installation of the first percent works great but then went no more, and this condition lasted for two hours until I it broke off. I tried again, but again the same. I have now given up and go get the data directly through the File Manager. In. And angrily, with software should also be suitable for XP.

As I said, it worked fine with the installation and updates of the software, the Super program, data exchanges fast and easy for lay people perfect.

Conclusion

Yes, we now come to the conclusion. Not everything can be personal for a perfect and defects Is there anywhere. From the Nokia phone behavior is perfect, and the personal Settings give her a lot really to make it more personal for themselves. There are many extra functions that certainly not everyone needs, such as Zip Manager, Office, or Cards. The other functions such as calculator, clock, calendar and are great even without any Declaration easy to use.

The possibilities of such data via USB or Bluetooth to replace them are there and work quickly and easily. Also, the WLAN can be set up quickly and you may like on the PC surf, only with a small display. Here I have nothing to criticize. The mobile phone is rugged, the slider is stable, the display is not starting fast scratches one, but I have security now a protector on it. The buttons can be easy to use and respond immediately.

The camera is for me about the mega pixels (8MP) perfectly adequate and provides very good Snapshots, only the red tone just a little different, and images with only Minmal Blitz also do not work so well, here you can shoot without much flash. The Video function can be seen, completely okay for home use, the films can we also view on the TV and do not appear too pixelated much. The software has not coped with my XP, but there were no problems on Vista. It is easy to use and fast data exchange.

Anyone who has read my report, will have noticed that I had with the Nokia N86 I am perfectly satisfied and not have a lot to share. Because prefer some other things I am from, however, an asterisk and the Nokia N86 forgive four out of five stars and say a product recommendation.

Pros : large screen, camera, design, sound
Cons : s little things. Report