{"id":36,"date":"2009-12-15T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2017-01-24T14:31:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T19:31:42","slug":"review-nokia-n86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Review: Nokia N86"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogers.com\/cms\/images\/en\/Wireless\/CellPhoneDetail\/Banners\/banner03_n86blkr.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rogers.com\/cms\/images\/en\/Wireless\/CellPhoneDetail\/Banners\/banner03_n86blkr.png\" alt=\"Nokia N86\" width=\"185\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><i>A guest posting<\/i><\/p>\n<p>As the son (read &#8220;associate&#8221;) of an independent telecommunications consultant, it is my privilege and pleasure to test out new gadgets from time to time. Recently, I got a hold of the brand new Nokia N86 smart phone.<\/p>\n<p>As a disclaimer, this was one of the first smart-phones that I have used, with the limited experience of accessing wikipedia-ing obscure 90&#8217;s alternative rock bands on friends&#8217; iPhones or checking Facebook on a parent&#8217;s Blackberry.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, the initial wow-factor for me was &#8220;amazing, I can easily check my e-mail on this thing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>After I got over the general excitement of setting up and using a smartphone, I focused on a few specific features I liked\/disliked.<\/p>\n<p>Likes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fast response time &#8211; when I press a button, the phone does something. This might sound trivial; I currently use a Motorola SLVR L6 and there is a noticeable delay between the time I press a button and when it responds. All around frustrating. So I appreciate the blazing speed with which the N86 responds to my button-pushing. <span style=\"font-size: 85%;\">[Side note: The L6 is a 4 year old model, and my father\/boss is a telecommunications consultant. Hmmm.]<\/span><\/li>\n<li>In general, it doesn&#8217;t take too long to load up applications on the N86 either. It switches between applications instantly.<\/li>\n<li>Five stars on multimedia: Two cameras. 8 megapixel primary camera. Secondary camera on the front face is handy for the self-shots with pals. The sound quality is quite good for a phone speaker, and comes with great noise cancelling earbud headphones.<\/li>\n<li>Did I mention that you can check your email with this thing? Goodbye telegraph.<\/li>\n<li>Battery Power &#8211; Lasts quite some time &#8211; a nice break from recharging my battery every night.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dislikes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For all the features it has, it might as well have a full QWERTY keyboard. The biggest limiting factor of the phone, in my opinion.<\/li>\n<li>Stiff camera shutter button. Maybe it was just this unit, but you really have to jam your finger down on the button to take a picture.<\/li>\n<li>Clumsy auto-rotate &#8211; takes too long to respond to turning the unit on its side. (nitpicky?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Nokia N86 is one of the many Nokia devices available from their Christmas <a href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=77\">gift guide<\/a>. Wind Mobile will be <a href=\"http:\/\/mobilesyrup.com\/2009\/12\/14\/wind-mobile-officially-launching-this-wednesday\/\">officially launching<\/a> its service tomorrow morning. What kind of impact will it have on the busiest time of the year for most wireless service providers?<\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" width=\"20%\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><b>Editor&#8217;s note<\/b>: Before you write to ask why my son is using an &#8220;antique&#8221; phone, remember that he is living in Southern California and he seems to enjoy subjecting electronic equipment to salt-water immersion tests and exposure to his chemistry lab experiments. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A guest posting As the son (read &#8220;associate&#8221;) of an independent telecommunications consultant, it is my privilege and pleasure to test out new gadgets from time to time. Recently, I got a hold of the brand new Nokia N86 smart phone. As a disclaimer, this was one of the first smart-phones that I have used, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=36\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Review: Nokia N86<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Review: Nokia N86 &#8226; Telecom Trends<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A guest posting As the son (read &quot;associate&quot;) of an independent telecommunications consultant, it is my privilege and pleasure to test out new gadgets &#8226; 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