*OFFICIAL THREAD: Nokia N86 8MP

If your position is off by a few miles then your GPS is not working well enough. How would you ever use it for navigation?

What positioning methods do you have selected? This should be under Settings>General>Positioning.

If you don't have "Integrated GPS" selected, then you are not actually using the GPS antenna. The best method is to have "Integrated GPS" and "Assisted GPS" (or "A-GPS") both selected. This will use a small amount of data (< 5 kB) when getting a position lock, but will speed up lock times considerably.
 
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oled is better indoors and saves battery life...
 
Hello Candyman:



Thank you, thank you so much; I despise anything OVI...the site is a complete waste of time.

My N86 will be delivered tomorrow; I have an E71 already and will continue to use them both. When I read the long gated thread I feel confused, but it has not affected my view points about this particular phone.

How do you find the email element of the phone, and which once do you use?

Thanks again,

dillon
 
The more I look into the N97, the more I'm intrigued by the integration of Nokia's own services.

This phone really will make it or break it.

N86 on the other hand - I dont knw where it's being positioned, considering N85 is still new.
 
called nokia today to cancel my order. they said it is shipping today and I should recieve shipping information soon though email. I didn't cancel my order because it was "too late" and would be shipping from the warehouse. "Alpa"(maybe Alba?) said that it was post marked today in her computer.

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Awesome, thanks for asking!!

I love this phone. Really well built, solid slider, great buttons. Much better than the N85 I had.

Small scratch on the lens, but well away from the picture taking area so no problem.

Bottom row of keys are lightly scratched but that's because I took it to a beach and got a little sand in it!! Doesn't bother me at all.

Easily the best phone I've ever owned (had the N95, N95 8GB and N85).

Fire away with questions......
 
I have Profimail installed on my N86, and it seems to stay connected to 3G, even though I have the "keep connection" box unchecked. I am using Gmail imap, and have it set to check every 30 minutes. Any tricks to have it disconnect after it checks the server for updates, like the "Mail for Exchange" app did on the E71?
 
Honestly, I was really hoping for an E90 update (Commies are updated every 2 yrs), but this MWC, which I followed for the first time from start to end was disapointing.

Didnt knw recession resulted in stagnation of innovation.
 
V21 is just what I have been waiting for. Upgraded OTA with no loss of data or corruption. This phone is no longer beta, its ready for mainstream. Very fast, even theme effects are now bearable. The gallery loads photos instantly, no more waiting for pixilated thumbnails to load!!!!! The camera is noticeably snappier, for what its worth the facial detection is working better too. I have not had a chance to really look at image quality but everything seems as good if not better then before. I did have to reinstall the silent shutter patch. GPS locks on very quick and using Ovi maps is a pleasure, especially with the free voice guidance. The phone seems to be very stable. I still need to check to web browser to see if some of the page formatting issues I have been encountering are fixed.(hopefully)
Overall I would say that Nokia has one fine phone/camera on their hands.
I have been beating on the phone for three months and have developed that "I can throw it against the wall Nokia confidence"
VERY VERY Pleased.
Thank You Nokia,
Keep it Up.
 
Guys, if you looking to buy this phone because of camera, Don't! Nokia's best imaging phone, my a**, 25MM wide angle lens is total crap.I was wrong, I'm trying to find the site where they compared Innov8 with N86, Innov8 takes a lot better shots,but the website comparison showed that N86 was better. I tried tweaking the settings, even kept the phone on tripod, but colors not saturated and noise noise noise! I miss my Innov8 now which is cheaper then N86.

N86's Image quality is similar to N95-4, n82. May be my unit is faulty as you can see a lot of noise.

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Pictures below not taken by my phone :( , Online camera samples are 5 times better then my phone.


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Ya, i'd really like to know about how the antenna works out too.
With my e71 in low signal areas my hand kills the connection.
In a real bad area like indoors or in basements, i have to text with the phone upside down. (i type it normally, then flip it over, wait till the signal returns then hit send while inverted).
 
Earlier when I said phone memory I meant the 8GB internal memory.

The phone memory is 74MB and is referred to as the C drive of the phone. It acts like RAM. The internal flash memory is 8GB and is referred to as the E drive or Mass Memory. My memory card is designated as the F drive of the phone. What happened to the D drive?

Today I sent a 20MB image file to both the memory card and the internal memory. In both locations, it took the phone the same amount of time to open the image.

Music files take up space very quickly. Same with video but I transcode them into something appropriate. Anyone know what would be the ideal way to transcode video files that fits best for the phone. I was using 29.97 fps, 320x240 (QVGA), Which encoder? I was using H.264. Container format? I was using MP4. How does 3GP compare? Which bitrate I think there's a way of calculating what's best?
 
Maybe, if they wised up and just built one version of each phone we wouldn't be wondering when it's coming out, we'd already have it.
I have trouble believing it's more cost effective to develop and engineer 2 phones one with an extra frequency and one without than it is just just make one.
Build one phone and make the minor software changes for each country.
Can't be too hard, i've had US phones and Overseas phones, and honestly the one i didn't even know was overseas until i hooked it up to the software updater and it went to the european site.

As far as building excitement, let's be realistic, only gadget geeks (no insult intended as for i am one) will be getting this phone in the US, and we all know about it and want it already.
It's not like the iphone where you build it up and then dumbazz's line up all night to get it.
 
I bought one of these today too.

Love the way it looks, always thought my n82 was so ugly. Screen is very nice, feels solid in the hand.

Will be switching to att soon, can't wait for 3g.

So far loving the phone and happy with my purchase.
 
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