21 September 2008

Nokia N79 and Nokia N85
Hands On Video Preview And User Guides

Mic Wright from over at stuff.tv site somehow managed to get hold of early prototypes of the recently released Nokia Nseries devices for a quick hands-on video preview.

Yes, I’m talking about Nokia N79 and Nokia N85, he got it last week and he says that both phones certainly look and feel a lot slicker than an older and massive N–series but as usually the feature set takes precedence over the style, design and size.

Mic says that Nokia N85 takes its shape and form factor from the Nokia N96 but it is more oriented at gamers rather than the media set as it comes with 10 preloaded N-Gage games ready to play out of box.

I certainly agree with him that design isn’t unique and that it looks like the Nokia N96 clone but I can’t agree with statement that phone is aimed for gamers.

Although it features the dedicated gaming keys and comes with 10 preloaded N-gage games but same as Nokia N81 it lacks the great Texas’s chipset and 3D hardware acceleration and therefore it is far away from the perfect gamers phone.

He also added that Nokia N79 has a similar design and feel to the N82, but is significantly smaller and lighter and slightly ten to disagree with him as it hasn’t anything with the Nokia N82 and it is obviously Nokia N78 successor as it can hardly compete with a powerful Smartphone beast like N82 is!