Coming soon this second quarter, the Nokia N86 is a robust upgrade to your typical Nseries phone. Although it doesn’t sport the Xenon flash from the previous N82 series, the N86 hails more from the previous N85 line. It comes with a 8MP Carl Zeiss camera, WiFi connectivity and 8GB of storage. There isn’t anything that really stands out with the N86 — it’s pretty much a straightforward Nseries phone with all the bells and whistles for music, video, and Internet surfing.

At the end of the day, the N86 is a decent upgrade of the former series and is a good buy if you’ve been looking for a powerful slider.

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Mobile phone screens are getting bigger and bigger. The challenge is to figure out how to integrate it into a brick. Just like these weird concepts that push mobile real estate to creative limits, Nokia’s latest patent allows some creative fusion between the touch screen and button keys, reminiscent of the Sony Ericsson P series.

The challenge is to create a widescreen mobile phone that goes over the top in terms of design. The sliding keyboard concept is so 2008, apparently and in ‘09 we might be seeing some new calisthenics for phone hardware. The patents are self explanatory.

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