Nokia N86 8MP Slide Phone 3G mobile phone handset reviews and tariffs

+ Just loving this phone! Nice solid feel and relatively easy to use. Camera is great and has loads of options which make my own digiital camera almost redundant. Picture quality so far is excellent and the turn sensor makes viewing in full size very easy. Connectivity was really easy with bluetooth and syncing last phone to transfer numbers, pics etc was a dawdle. Slide action is smooth and keypad not too small for normal fingers. Sound quality good and battery life is fine unless you are playing games or online when it seems to run down rather quickly. In normal use is lasting easily for a few days. Menu is easy to navigate through as always with Nokia and the amount of apps is great. Not found any software probs with them yet, but then I'm not a heavy user.

- Screen is rather difficult to see in daylight. Have had to increase the light sensor to max and change my background to a light coloured one to be able to see anything in sunshine. Rather annoying having to manually exit contact menu each time as phone opens up at the last person you contacted. Have misdialled a couple of times because of this. This phone also has a different charger size/shape to my last Nokia which means that yet again, my in-car charger won't fit. Turn sensor can be a bit of a pain if you happen to be horizontal when wanting to use the phone as the display changes when you don't want it too - just a minor point really. Overall tho great phone and love using it!

+ everything, the camera, gps, music player, fm transmiter, web browser, email, softwareit is all brillant. I thought the N95 was good the N86 is a lot better.

- For some reason the fm radio gets a rubbish signal compared to the N95, other than that I dont have a complaint.

+ Looks good.
Easy to personalise.
Some useful applications (e.g. facebook, youtube)

- Glitchy software which freezes way too often
Battery life is awful
Phone doesn't charge properly due to software glitch

+ Great Phone, easy to use,and well spec'd. Really pleased.

- No real bad points to report, if I were to picky I'd say battery life could do with extended and it's maybe a little heavy, but these are more comments than bad points

+ everything good apart from battery life

- there doesnt seem to be the amount of life in the battery as indicated in the manual.

+ brilliant phone easy to use and looks very good

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+ great phone. 8GB internal memory. good battery life. best camera. very quick and easy to use. very good screen and solid build smooth slide loads of good features am very pleased with the n86 have got to say this phone is the best phone there is. i highly recommend it.

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+ OLED screen, size, GPS, build quality

- Sluggish firmware

+ Screen
Design
Features
Network connection

- GPS

+ camera is really good and the phone is so easy to use, im still finding new things now theres so much to do on it, i love the way you scroll through the photos. really good phone

- every now and then the fone freezes and i cant get into anything i have to take the battery out and re start it its so annoying and i was unable to receive incoming calls for a few days and had to phone them up aparently the network connection on the phone had gone!! all sorted with ease and works great now.

+ Brilliant camera and lots of memory to store pictures,videos and music. Great web browser and the games for the phone are excellent Very easy to use and compact considering everything that in the phone. I think that anyone wanting a mobile would love this mobile as it has everything that you need in a mobile and more

- Cant really thing of any off hand apart from the usual for a slide phone not able to get a case for using while mobile is in use.

+ The screen is clear and as with all nokia phones it is easy to use.

- Not had it long enough to come across any yet.

+ navigation works very well, really inpressed. good camera, very easy to use, i really like the buttons.

- video is poor quality the picture is stretched and distorts a lot.

+ very good phone across the board

- synchronisation with my new land rover, will not show any detail, ie phone book. this is a pain

+ good camara good design well made

- screen hard to see in strong day light

+ Can add extra memory card, own files,

- still little too big

+ Great MP3 player, looks great, nice keypad, mp3 selection pad is a nice touch, screen looks good and the battery life is better than what people state

- can freeze like once or twice

+ sat nav is fantastic i would buy the phone purley for this also the video and camera is so clear can play music in the background and can still use other features. ive had this phone for about a month and still havent used all the features it's great. music player is great quality, internet is pretty quick especially if you connect to your wireless at home oviously not as fast as a computer i.e computer takes about 3 seconds to load page phone takes about 10 seconds max depending on the page .access you emails almost anywere, 3d tones , you dont even have to read your text you can set a voice to read them outload.bbc i player came built in my phone i dont know if everyone has this but this is pretty cool too i can watch eastenders when i missed it on tv.

- battery life is not that good especially if you use music player alot, also you have to press exit everytime to stop an application and if you dont this uses alot of batery aswell, i.e u make a phone call then put it down its sitll using the phone book application which drains battery .

+ It has buttons, no touch screen!!

- some software issues, should be fixed as soon as nokia get them sorted, just very minor

+ The phone is easy to use, so compact and has everything a phone needs

- there are no bad points about this phone

+ A Super phone and even better than my old N95 8GB. Fantastic camera and packed with features. After experimenting with touchscreen (Samsung Pixon) which I hated I was relieved to find this Nokia every bit as good as my N95 and better in many respects. Despite some comments, I think the phone looks and feels great, oozes quality and the battery life is not too bad either given all the onboard kit.

- Only minor gripe I have is that I have accidentally activated my text inbox more than once when the phone is in my pocket. Exactly how i'm not sure, perhaps because the soft keys are raised slightly.

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- Accelerometer bit annoying some times

+ Fantastic Camera, MPEG 4 support very usefull

- Over complicated menus

+ looks good

- wont play videos. battery only lasts about 3hrs.always freezing turns its self off .plus very slow all round