Currently researching on N86 and according to reviews, closeup is a weakness for N86 due to its "wide lens", which is suppose to yield great landscape or architecture photos. So I guess this is a hardware issue.

hhahahah...any changes? Can compare ?

How bout the focus close range objects? Has it been fixed?

Planning to buy this phone, the phone's User Interface speed is smooth, with all the transition effects turned on?

Just read through these problems from allaboutsymbian forum:

1. Auto rotation takes around 5 seconds when theme effects are turned on, and looks weird.

2. GPS Data: In this application, i couldn't find that satellite status which i used to see how many satellites are accessible and how many are locked.

3. Music Player: When you pause a song which is playing, and after this you make a call, the song starts playing automatically when you disconnect the call.

4. Real Player: Open any video via xplore in real player using "open by system", now you can not seek through it, ie you cant forward or rewind the video.

5. Web: Web application has started hanging and crashing more than it used to in v11.

is it true?

sigh...number 1 would be my favourite and now it turns out to be a true lag...

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Added on October 7, 2009, 4:47 pmwa..why sell it leh?

This post has been edited by skyer: Oct 7 2009, 04:47 PM

Wondering whether N86 supports flash wall paper?

Wow! That's a nice feature, means it will work just like SE phone wall paper, a lot of flashy things behind? As I do not like a stagnant wall paper. Wondering the flash wallpaper in N86 will change color according to time or not as well, just like SE?

How much you get the white?

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Added on October 20, 2009, 4:54 pmHow is the tactility of the Camera button ? Will it stiffs until could affect the camera quality? (if stiff, then the picture will blur when pressing down..)

This post has been edited by skyer: Oct 20 2009, 04:54 PM

the new lens has square vs old lens round outer case...

Reply from Damian, the N86 developer:

"hi. Change is to the shape of the opening around the lens cover only. Nothing else. It was found that such a small change could make a small difference to lens flare in some situations. As part of continuous development as most manufacturers do during a products life cycle, not just in this industry but in many others. we felt it was worth doing. Why not? This is not to say there was a known deisgn issue before you start calling Nokia care centres, as there is nothing fundamentally wrong as such with the original, but we were able to make it a little better.

If I had an original should I be concerned in any way? Absolutely not!"

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Added on November 23, 2009, 3:49 pmGot my White N86 Ori set....the lens housing is Square....

This post has been edited by skyer: Nov 23 2009, 03:49 PM

I am wondering, since this is a new unit (by tracing the square lens), but the Ori set of mine is still in V11. With the problems of V20, I guess the inside ppl of Nokia knows that V20 is not stable?

So far, my macro mode is great, despite it is V11....no problems discovered with other parts. Great phone!

I am also in V11 and I actually satisfied with V11 performance. If I want to update, I will just wait a firmware newer than V20. I believe the people in Nokia knows something regarding V20, and this explains why the Ori Nokia phones still getting V11, despite the lens has been changed to square ones.

Yup...OLED. This is the trade off for having an exotic screen.

BTW, found one thing, which is quite subjective: Hand feels tired when talking for long duration -> the phone is simply too heavy

When doing hard reset, is it reset the C only or both C and E drives?

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Added on November 27, 2009, 11:34 pmDone. Only C drive.

This post has been edited by skyer: Nov 27 2009, 11:34 PM

I guess the specialty of N86 is that there are 3 kinds of memories.

Mine is white. The back panel is easily get "greyed". So my plan is will go and change the back panel only if there is really uncleanable dirt...

Anyway, my question is: How come N86 doesn't have "focus-assist" light?

Or is my setting problem?

Let's say,
bright sunlight is 100%,
day time indoor near window 80%,
day time indoor middle hall, far away from windows, without lights turned on 50%
night time dim light 20%,
total darkness is 0%.

Erm...I just found out, the environment should be quite dark (20%), then only the LED will lit up as focus assist...

I guess this is the inherited expectation from SE Cybershot. My C901 will fire its focus assist light whenever possible (even its 50%), and sometimes even 80%, except under bright sunlight (100%)...

This means that, N86 has problem focusing in (50%) environment, which was the case happened today...sigh...


This post has been edited by skyer: Dec 2 2009, 11:51 PM

My Ori N86 no games at all..

Anyway, it's alright for me as they are just demos.

By the way, my whitie N86 battery can only lasts 3 days the max

My friends' N85 can last for 5 to 6 days