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nokia n86
Expected on the second quarter of this year, the Nseries N86 handset by Nokia it's a beautiful and shiny device with an awsome 8MP camera (3264x2448 pixels resolution) with Carl Zeiss lenses, autofocus, flash (although not a Xenon flash), video (VGA at 30fps) and a secondary VGA camera for videocalling.

It also has 8GB of internal memory expandable by MicroSD card up to 16GB. The ARM 11 CPU at 434 MHz should be enough to carry with no problems the Symbian S60v3 (rel. 3.2) operating system.


The screen is a "dual-slider" with a resolution of 240x320 pixels (2,6 inches) with 16M colors and it uses OLED technology which means that you will have a better contrast and an increased battery life.

The connectivity with other devices is made by Bluetooth technology(v2.0 with A2DP which allows the user to listen to his favourite songs on the go using a bluetooth enabled stereo headset) , WiFi (802.11 b/g) including UPnP ("Universal Plug and Play" which allows peer to peer communication in a much efficient manner) and, of course, USB 2.0 by miniUSB.

Internet connectivity it's also not a problem if you use one of Nokia's Nseries devices (and not only). For that matter, the N86 has 3G capabilities (HSDPA up to 3,6MB/s), HSCSD, GPRS, EDGE and it uses a WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML built-in browser .

If you get lost , you can use the Nokia Maps software and the GPS (with Assisted GPS) which are pre-installed on the phone. If you want to share the photos/videos you got on the phone with your frinds when you're at your place, just use the AV connectivity cable that comes with N86 and see your photos or videos on your personal TV set.

And if you get really lonely or bored, you can use the stereo FM radio with RDS or play MP3/MP4/eAAC+/WMA music formats directly from your N86 and, if you're not satisfied by the stereo headphones you got in the package you can just plug your own super performant headphones into N86 and get de-stressed 'cause this phone has a 3.5 mm AV jack.



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