It is late, several companies like LG, Samsung and Sony Ericsson already released 8MP phones before “Some have 12MP phones waiting for release”, but I’m hoping this would be this would be the start of something big “a 12MP successor, maybe? ”.

You can find Nseries Blog’s preview of the N86 8MP here.

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The N97 shipments is on it’s way to an unamed 75 countries, that might include Egypt “GPS Ban lifted a while ago, More details on that later” .
You can preorder an N97 from Amazon for 603.99$. Click here to view the amazon page for the black version or the white version. It will in stock on June 25 but could be earlier.

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The Nokia N96 is Nokia’s flagship device with a 2.8” screen, HSDPA “3.5G”, 16 GB of on board memory with an expansion slot “MicroSD”, A-GPS, DVB-H Mobile TV bands “Not available currently in the US”, and a dual slider design with dedicated music keys and T9 keyboard.

Buy Now from Amazon

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All you have to do is purchase the N85 from here then go to Nokia’s rebates webpage and fill in the form to receive the Prepaid card.

The Nokia N85 is a feature-packed device with a 2.6″ AMOLED Screen for crisp colours, 5 Megapixel camera with LED flash, a MicroSD slot “The phone comes with an 8GB MicroSD card”, WiFi, Bluetooth.

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Amazon today is selling the great N95 8GB unlocked with US 3G for only 350$ down for 642$, If you wanted a Symbian but didn’t afford one before, today is your lucky day.
If you have been living under a rock for the past year or so, the N95 8GB is Nokia’s previous flagship phone featuring a 5 Megapixel camera with LED flash, 2.8″ screen, WiFi, US 3G, GPS, anything you name it, it’s there with more RAM, 8GB of memory and a bigger battery if compared to it’s older brother, the original N95.

Buy the N95 8GB now from Amazon Gold Box!

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The N86 is capable of taking pictures at a speed up to 1/1000 of a  second, thanks to the Carl Zeiss lens, it comes with 3rd generation dual LED flash(!) that supposedly  have a range of 3.5 meters. Battery life isn’t too shabby with an estimated 312 hours of stand-by time and up to 6 and a half  hours of talk time. and it also comes with support for USB charging as well.

Nokia didn’t get too creative when designing this device, it looks like a hybrid between an N97 and an N85; has the looks of the N97 and nearly the same specs of the N85; The differences between the two is that the N86 has an 8 Megapixel camera and 8GB of internal storage. I hate the fact that Nokia included dual LED flash again in such a camera-oriented device, it doesn’t make sense to me at all, this could have been the prefect successor of the N82, the exclusion of Xenon flash made this device dramatically less appealing to me. and I simply hate the fact that this device is nearly one year late, other manufacturers as Samsung, Sony Ericsson and LG already released Symbian S60 devices with 8 Megapixel cameras, if the N86 8MP was announced with for example the N85 and N79, it would have had a much warmer reception.

The N86 8MP will be available in Q2 09 for an estimated price of  375€. before taxes and subsidies. Expect a North American edition of this device with AT&T 3G support.

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Update: Nokia has officially announced this device, click here for the full article.

Earlier this week, a photo posted on the Nseries.com website showing the capture capability of Nseries devices was found to be shot by an unannounced 8 Megapixel smartphone. It has been rumoured that it would be announced in MWC, but it made no apperance in Nokia’s press conference today.

Shortly ago, Ricky Cadden found a document on Nokia’s website about the use of Carl Zeiss lenses in Nseries devices, and of all Nseries devices, they chose the unannounced N86 8MP to demonstrate it. Brilliant Nokia!

Leaked specs include: an 8 Megapixel camera with what it appears to be a Xenon flash“turned out to be an updated LED flash”, of course, 2.6′” VGA display, half QWERTY keyboard(?), A-GPS, WiFi, HSPA and 8GB of internal memory.

UPDATE: new pictures emerged for the device, it has a regular T9 keypad, a N96-like kick stand and a dual slider shape.

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I ranted a lot before about how hideous this device was, in it’s white suit, but I have nothing to rant about with it’s new black cover, In fact, it’s looking awesome than ever! it looks exactly like the black version of the N82.

If you’re not familiar with the N79, it’s Nokia’s mid-range Nseries with a 5 Megapixel camera, WiFi, GPS and3G+; In-depth preview here.

Source: Nokia Blog.

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Sorry again for the long blogging vacation

The cell phone industry hasn’t been around for more than 20 years, it was an unknown risky industry for most of it’s time, and it only started to profoundly grow during the last 90’s, through the years innovation captivated mobile phone manufacturers and the DNA of cell phones completely changed, it evolved from a bulky giant ugly box that is only used for emergency calls into an entertainment centre; Such develop helped close the gap between computers and phones, so it’s not surprising to me when Nokia calls it’s Nseries lineup multimedia computers, or when Nokia becomes the world’s largest computer manufacturer if we put the smartphone sales into consideration.

Which leaves many of us puzzled and confused, wondering about the technology’s next big hit, for me, the next big hit is manufacturers selling fully customizable phones, and I’m talking hardware here. PC Manufacturers took this step nearly a decade ago and now you can customize roughly any computer/laptop and order it online or by phone. That step will be imitated by the cell phone industry, in fact, it’s already been done by a Chinese phone manufacturer.

Just think about it, I can go to Nokia.com, decide to buy an N97, choose to ditch the GPS so it can reach my home safely with no troubles, increase RAM memory, choose an appropriate camera resolution, increase on-board memory and probably engrave my name on it’s back cover. This futuristic look of the process of purchasing cell phones is not a fantasy, the question is, when is it going to be deployed? 3 years, maybe.

All I’m hoping is that this giant step will be taken sooner, and that our favourite phone maker, Nokia, leads the industry in such act, and not foolishly wait for things to pace out, like it’s policy with touch-enabled devices. This step will increase sales, a thing Nokia deeply needs, and at the same time, Increase customer satisfaction, it’ll be easy for a person to change his phone without leaving an empty space in his pocket and without having unneeded functions on their device. It’ll also bring mobile personality from screen covers and housing to the core.

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