Get ready for some fun because Nokia is pulling out all the stops. The rumors are no more rumors because the Nokia N900 is slated to be with us sometime before the end of the year. Read this review to see what has been taking place with this great new smartphone.

The N900 is also called the Rover or the RX-51. It has a brand new killer operating system made by Maemo, which is made by Linux. The operating system is called Maemo 5 and during development was named “Fremantle”. What does this Android-killer do ? For starters, it comes with a browser from the same people who make Firefox. Firefox is the most popular internet browser. The N900 Rover has a regular hardware keyboard, but you have one more on the screen using Maemo if you prefer to use it. The screen is delightfully responsive and is the resistive touch variety, not the capacitive touch that the Apple products have. One feature of the Maemo operating system is you can keep track of everyone at Facebook with one glance at the N900. Copy and past is allowed in all menus.

The hardware is of good quality with the N900. Nokia has given this device a nice keyboard. It is a full QWERTY keyboard and extends from the side, not from the bottom. This is a great choice, because it gives you more room to type. The keyboard also comes with directional buttons ( arrows ) just like your laptop or home PC. If you were wondering, yes this device is a true mobile computing device that also happens to make phone calls. The processor runs at 600 Megahertz and with the magnitude of memory on board you will not be disappointed with the performance. The N900 has 32 Gigabytes of built-in storage, and 48 Gigabytes of storage available with a MicroSD card.

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Popularity: 13% [?]

NOKIA released an 8mp camera phone as an answer to the phones recently released by its contenders. It is better late than never and the Finnish promises that “the wait is definitely worth it”.

Nokia N86 8MP is sporting an 8 mega pixel camera with dual LED flash, auto focus and the 28mm CARL Zeiss wide angle lens, which is the first in mobile technology. This wide angle lens will give you 20% more angle view, thus it is great in taking landscape and architecture photos. Another great feature of this camera is its mechanical shutter and variable aperture. This feature automatically detects the proper effects to use when taking pictures, should it use more light or sharpness, depending on the lighting condition. Plus this camera phone can also record 30fps video clips with 640 x 480 pixel resolution. You will definitely love its kickstand around the camera which automatically launch image gallery once you flip it out. You could actually change its setting if you prefer to watch videos instead of looking at your pictures.

Nokia N86 8MP has 2.6 inch AMOLED screen and a dual slide form. It also boasts its scratch resistant surface and accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate. Another great feature of this phone is that it has 8 gb internal memory, great for saving all the photos you captured with your 8mp camera. Plus you can expand your memory with a micro SD card for up to 16 gb, enough to store videos, applications and songs.

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Recently Nokia announced its plans to launch N86 8MP in the US, with a price tag of US$558, which is much more than similar models from Samsung and Sony Ericsson.

Technical DetailsAbout the N86 8MP

The N86 carries an eight-megapixel camera, dual LED flash; Carl Zeiss optics, Tessar lens and a 2.6-inch AMOLED screen ( an emerging technology used in mobiles devices which is getting very popular), a Share Online client for sharing videos and images, through Ovi Share along with other such services, which enables users to share video and images with their contacts. You also get Ovi Maps, N-Gage and Ovi Files.

The N86 slider is a 3.5G device supporting W-CDMA/HSDPA, EGSM, and WLAN, uses the Symbian OS v9.3 operating system, has 8 GB of internal flash memory, up to 74 MB of internal dynamic memory and supports microSD cards of up to 16 GB capacity, along with a GPS receiver, which is quite common nowadays.
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Popularity: 11% [?]