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I'm pretty drat impressed with the N86's camera after some low-light party atmosphere shooting this weekend. The quality isn't going to win any pulitzers, and the LED flash isn't great at freezing action shots (or beerpong shots, as the case may be) but it's miles ahead of any other cellphone camera I've used in terms of crispness and visibility in less-than-ideal lighting conditions. I do wish they'd gone with a better camera button, though. The mid-press focus "clicks" nicely, but the full press is very stiff and requires you to brace the camera pretty firmly, which has led to more than a few blurred shots that I had to re-take. edit: Also, Furtiv make the phone's "share online" functionality actually worth a drat. I wish Nokia was smart enough to integrate Facebook and Twitter uploading into their software from the outset, but at least there's a third party solution which gets the same results. Gerudo Rivera fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Dec 15, 2009 |
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more of a general s60 question: Is it possible to set a certain app as the "default" app for an S60 function? For example, if I receive a text message or email with a URL and select "Open URL", is there a way to make the phone open it in Opera Mini instead of Nokia's built-in browser?
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Dr Tran posted:Opera Mini, no. drat. I'll give Mobile a try today. I'm assuming the same would be true for third-party music players, navigation apps, etc? Gerudo Rivera fucked around with this message at 14:46 on Dec 16, 2009 |
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Dec 16, 2009 14:43
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Every unboxing video should have a puppet bird
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Jan 3, 2010 18:37
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corpsed posted:Recorded with a black Nokia N86 from SA-Mart. making constant use of the impressively smooth digital zoom
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Jan 4, 2010 01:36
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It looks just like the E72 except the middle part is silver???
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Firmware update for the N86 is out (not in NAM regions yet  )No official changelog that I've found, but the comments on AAS's article are promising quote:Ok, so I've installed the new firmware, and here are the first noticable changes:
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Jan 11, 2010 16:22
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v21 firmware seems to be available for all NAM N86 product codes, finally. Theme effects are no longer laggy as poo poo, and actually look quite good, in addition to the UI being generally snappier. Camera also seems to focus a smidge faster than before. I wish it had shipped like this (but then maybe corpsed wouldn't have sold it to me) Gerudo Rivera fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Feb 1, 2010 |
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Those are pretty drat promising specs. Hopefully they get it out in time so that they're still "top of the line" when it's actually released. I definitely hope the HDMI-out thing is true. Any phone that can record at that high definition really needs that feature, and this would be one step towards helping it becomes standard.
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Feb 10, 2010 22:25
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The C series is supposed to be their midrange (less fancy than N-series, even), but the features you list are kind of standard now, so it could very well be "the phone" if you're looking for something on the cheap.
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It's a very capable application, and now that there's free turn-by-turn navigation on it, I prefer it (very slightly) to google maps. Functionally they're almost identical; the main difference is having to pre-load maps once in ovi as opposed to downloading them on the fly with google. With the amount of space most modern models offer, I rather prefer the former.
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Mar 22, 2010 20:40
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The design does look pretty bland, and the fact that there's only a single button on the face just kind of...sitting there on the left side doesn't do much for aesthetics. Also, camera module cold jutting out of the backside with no lens cover in sight? seems like a pretty big digression. The two screw heads being plainly visible on the case makes me think (hope) this isn't a final design. On the other hand, seeing capacitive touch and xenon in the spec list is promising, and hopefully they'll roll out the same tech to other models (slide qwerty, please?)
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Mar 23, 2010 16:22
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Well you can have your N86 back when you pry it from my cold, dead thumbs 
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I wish I had been dreaming when the locations of all my app icons reset, after i'd spent a solid half hour carefully sorting them into folders by function and frequency of use 
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Apr 8, 2010 01:25
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mobbler is spectacular. also i have just discovered these ""pod cast" things and i wonder how i ever did 45 minutes of cardio without them. even though i am starting to suspect the built in podcast app is pretty inferior (no listing for Radiolab or This American Life?? what the hell nokia
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I literally just tried it out for the first time tonight, I haven't tried anything else. I was just surprised that it has a bunch of NPR programming preloaded as bookmarks but not the two i mentioned.
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Nokia Conversation never worked properly on my N86, and apparently Nokia is aware of the problem but hasn't bothered to fix it. I haven't tried freeiSMS "business edition", but the free version is delightful after you go through the trouble of signing it. If the pay version comes pre-signed, it's definitely worth 12
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Though the phone itself doesn't interest me in the least, it's nice to see them putting those features (xenon flash, larger sensor, hd recording, hdmi output) in their apparent flagship so that other phones (probably not from Nokia, I'm guessing!) will follow suit. maybe
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If anyone other than me still has a N86, the 30.009 firmware finally dropped for NAM product codes today. Not noticing any significant changes other than the email app seeming a bit faster (finally). It doesn't seem to have broken anything, so it's probably worth the update.
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Dr Tran posted:Couple of bits of news: The N9 is the rumored successor to the N900, right? I think this would be the first time it's shown up in official docs. The N8 didn't do much for me, but a N900 with capacitive touch and the N8's camera on the other hand..
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siiick http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_n9_leaks_through_an_uninspiring_video_teaser-news-1735.php
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Noctone posted:Yeah a possibly fake video of a phone that, if real, won't be available until sometime between forever and eternity. How exciting. that's why it's so sick. Can't stop hurlin
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to illustrate the point- Nokia Conversations doesn't work at all on most N86 models. There have been hundreds of posts on every official nokia support forum reporting the problem over the past year. 4 firmware updates later, it's still broken. They invested (presumably) a fair amount of resources into designing a threaded messaging app for S60v3, something that would help make even their older-style non-touchscreen phones seem modern and socially connected. Then they completely failed to support their flagship non-touchscreen phone with it. Then they quietly discontinued the N86 not even a year after it launched in NAM. Hardware and design-wise, the N86 is just right. Unfortunately, the software is a mess. I have not yet been spoiled by a modern touch interface phone, and even I can tell Symbian is 2-3 years behind the pack. I hear the touch version of it is worse. There are a dozen little frustrations I encounter whenever I try to use the phone for anything, and I have to wonder how S60 was ever on top. I guess there just didn't used to be any better alternatives. I don't have any confidence this company can change its ways, even with maemo/meego around the corner. If anyone can find a way to gently caress that up, it's Nokia. I'll keep using the N86 for a while longer, because despite all the software shittiness, it's still a cool little phone. But I can almost guarantee I won't be buying a Nokia again.
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Peven Stan posted:Nokkkia N8 available for preorder. Only $549!!! What a steal!!
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The carefully sorted app icons on my N86 just randomly reset and all moved back into the Applications folder for the fourth fuckin time, so I'll be tossing this thing as soon as I find a better smartphone with similar hardware features to replace it. Any ideas? 
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Noxious posted:Looks like the Conversations App from beta labs was closed. People are pretty upset. I didn't realize Nokia had such a poor rep in the application department. Oh well... The free ISMS looks pretty good and it's still free for the unsigned version. You're in luck-- it never worked on half of their phones to begin with!! free iSMS is pretty nice. I recommend getting the pay version though, it's worth it for the better software integration and fewer glitches/quirks with message notification
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Civil posted:I hope you forgive me if I bask in your pain for a bit, but this brings me back to my S60 days. I think that the only advantage that the symbian phones have is that they have a good camera built into them. There is literally no other advantage to going with one - every other aspect of the hardware and software (and support) is a throwback to 5 years ago. That's pretty much where I am with the N86 at the moment!! Of course, it was unsupported almost right out of the box, but somehow the firmware updates they've actually managed to release (the last one coming up on a year ago) have only broken the phone more I had to uninstall all nonessential services, including ovi maps, just to keep the OS from popping an "out of memory" error every five seconds. Might have something to do with the phone packing roughly the same amount of ram as my old TI-83+ (at least the calculator let me garbagecollect when it got overloaded) But you're right, it does take great photos. A shame nothing I've shot in the past month shows up in the gallery, seemingly because it decided to replace everything from 2011 with random photos from 2009 
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whatever7 posted:With all due respect, Nokia only have good photo because it uses Hugh sensor. While the N8 has a very good phone camera, its nowhere as good as other 1/1.7 inch sensor digicams. But none of those have phones attached to them, do they.
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I hope those rumors about the next iphone having a physical keyboard and a better camera are true, because although I will never buy one of those things, it might finally prod the rest of the industry into making more smart-featurephones so I can finally buy the convergence device i've always dreamed of, just in time for the Rapture
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