Nokia's N85 reviewed, called better than N96

We were always curious why a device that (at least on paper) was superior in a lot of ways to Nokia's N96 wasn't trumpeted as the outfit's flagship device, but nevertheless, an Italian reviewer has made us feel a touch better about our previously ludicrous thoughts. After spending a solid fortnight with the phone, the critic felt comfortable deeming the N85 a "very, very beautiful" handset, also noting that it was "definitely the best Symbian [device]" out there. He even went out of his way to recommend the N85 over the N96 so long as you're cool without DVB-H or a super-snazzy camera. As if you really needed more, he also found the OLED display to be spectacular, the audio quality very satisfactory and the GPS / multimedia functions to be top-notch. Wait, is that the N96 we hear crying? There's no crying in Espoo!

[Via All About Symbian]

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 17th 2008 3:41AM]

You're years behind us ;)

[MikeSL Posted Oct 17th 2008 4:41AM]

N series really dosen't have anything in common with iphone. It's the customers or more like these people in blogs and forums who come up with this "iphone killer" not Nokia. Phones are personal and there isn't or will not come one phone that would please all so i guess that why we have these pointless wars going on here so often even more when Nokia is taken here a bit differently than in European discussion boards so we get this Nokia vs iphone thing going on here in Engadget every time(and no i'm not helping it here ;)).

You need to remember while it might hard for American to understand, but SE, Nokia, Samsung and others have made people used to 5mpx cameras and what not so downgrading there isn't always that easy. Plus i can assure you that by far most of Europeans and Asian who have used more than 2 smartphons have had Nokia's S60 phone at some point so the UI is familiar already.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 17th 2008 6:05AM]

"The world is run by Alphas, not nerds."

You'd better tell that to Gates and Jobs. I don't think they got the memo.

[Flix C Posted Oct 17th 2008 6:35AM]

Dude since you are so 2015 with your iPhone can you tell me :
Is Wimax gonna be introduced in France any soon ?

Oh sorry I meant was it introduced in france anywhere near the past in which I lived oh poor non-Apple-worshipper ?
(I kinda get messed up with this past/futur talk ...)

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 17th 2008 10:41PM]

This is an announcement about the bigger online shop with smartphones.
Come visit... http://www.forsalehere.co.uk/smart-phones/

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 19th 2008 8:40AM]

Come on Nokia, show some innovation. How about a Touch Screen on this Beast. I have the N82 and the only thing that would move me from that would be the N85 plus touch screen and the xenon flash.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 8th 2008 9:43PM]

Who can help me? I'm in doubt. Are any of these phones the same thing for any country except the firmware and support for some bands? I'm just waiting to see it in spanish to have predictive text and "ñ". But if everything that would be needed to have that is a new firmware, maybe It's time to set a back order.

If a phone works with AT&T's 3G then means it would work with Telcel's 3G?