The Nokia N86 8MP is named after one of its main virtues, its 8 mega pixel camera.
The phone offers many other features as well as the camera, but this element is the one that stands out from the crowd which is probably why it is mentioned within the name of the phone.
The phone offers PDA style work horse abilities with leisure features including media players and uses the ARM 11 434 MHz processor and Symbian OS v9.
3 operating system to process its functionality.
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6 inch AMOLED display screen is the central element of the phone and considering the size of the camera resolution, needs to be of excellent quality and able to display numerous colour variants.
Fortunately it is able to display 16 million colours at 240 x 320 pixels, which is about the best available.
For optimum viewing of imagery, the accelerometer sensor rotates images automatically to ensure they are shown in their best aspect.
The main element of the phone is the 8 mega pixel camera.
It comes with the ability to operate at a resolution of 3264 x 2448 and also incorporates a number of high quality features such as a wide 28 mm Carl Zeiss lens.
Auto focus and a dual LED flash ensure quality imagery and sufficient illumination.
The phone also offers VGA quality video recording which is recorded and shown at 30 frames per second.
Video call ability is offered through the secondary camera provided.
The phones internal memory is 8Gb but can be increased to 16 Gb via the microSD slot.
Internet access is provided by the HSDPA and Wi-Fi connections with nationally available Wi-Fi hot spots available throughout the UK.
For additional connectivity options the phone also includes GPRS, EDGE, Blue tooth with A2DP and microUSB.
For those requiring satellite facilities the phone also comes with GPS with A-GPS support feature and uses Ovi maps.
The Nokia N86 8MP is a phone which aims to offer outstanding picture taking features.
The phones entire premise is the ability to capture imagery at excellent quality.
This it achieves with aplomb.
The phone is a contender for anyone considering buying a stand alone digital camera, since this phone offers that facility and much more.