06 September 2008

Nokia N85 in all its glory
Ten Minutes Long Hands On!

Here is another detailed 'hands on' video from the folks over at Italian’s Cellulare Magazine blog. The following video is exactly 10 minutes long and shows the Nokia N85 in all its glory, nearly a perfect weekend watching!

Samsung INNOV8 is probably the best S60 handset at the moment but Nokia N85 is undoubtedly right behind, the latest Nokia Nseries phone is made to set new standards for mobile entertainment, gaming and sharing, especially with an eye-catching 2.6" OLED screen, smooth, sleek finish and the dual sliding form factor.

Phone is equipped with in-built FM transmitter, 5 MPX camera sensor supported with famous Carl Zeiss optics, geotagging capabilities and the very disappointing Dual led flash instead the superior and incomparable better Xenon solution.

It's been almost two years since Nokia has announced Nokia N95 and its original and innovative dual-sliding form factor has evolved to become smaller and sleeker and hopefully better but the build in hardware isn’t as impressive unfortunately.

Although it supports most of the latest technologies like; OLED screen, GPS, 3.5G HSDPA and Wi-Fi connectivity, 5 megapixel camera, DVD-quality videos recording at 30 frames per second and comes with 8 GB microSD card in box it still fails to take the leading position in the Smartphone world.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s nice phone, OLED screen is great improvement, but its resolution is totally insufficient for most of the tasks including the web browsing, working with office documents and multimedia. QVGA is maybe OK for the mid-range dummy phone but it is totally outdate solution for one high-end Smartphone. There is no excuse for forcing the QVGA screens while the all other major brands have the bunch of High-resolution mobile phones and I believe it is one of the reasons current Nokia’s sales woes.

Dual led flash is of course better than the single led solution but it can be hardly compared to powerful Xenon flash which indeed requires more power and more space for putting the massive capacitor It is small price to pay for all the benefits and better photos in lower lighting conditions and indoors generally.

With just a slightly better screen, Xenon flash and Texas’s chipset it will be nearly better phone but even with all this downsides it worth waiting and getting instead of the Nokia N96.