Nokia N85 review
Expert Rating:
Customer Rating:
- Cheaper than the Nokia N96
- Comes with an 8 GB MicroSD™ card
- Internal memory is very low
Nokia N85 - Music, gaming and internet in one sleek package
The Nokia N85 mobile phone is a gorgeous and neatly compact slide design handset with a two-way slider spring assistance mechanism that comes available in a sleek black or copper colour. The N85 mobile phone is a brand new from Nokia to add to the N-series range of mobile phones. The N85 comprises a very large 2.6 inch screen with active matrix OLED technology that displays up to 16.7 million colours with 320 x 240 pixel resolutions providing a very clear, bright and colourful screen display. The user can also enjoy the brightness control, orientation sensor and ambient light detector facilities that feature on the N85 mobile phone. The mobile phones many dedicated keys for various features and functions include S0 keys, multi-media key, send/end keys and short slide keys which all provide ease and manageability to the user. The mobile phone dimensions are 103mm x 50mm x 16mm and weighs a respectable 128g, considering how much technology has been jam packed into this multi-media computer. The user can expect to gain up to a maximum of 6.9 hours talk time and up to 363 hours of stand by time on one single charge of the battery.
There is a great range of call features that are provided on the Nokia N85 mobile phone including, Push to Talk, Conference calling, Contacts with images, Talking ring-tones, Call timer and Fixed dialling number support to name a few.
Nokia N85 – Camera & Imaging
The Nokia N85 mobile phone comes equipped with a 5 mega-pixel camera with 2584 x 1938 pixels complete with amazing imaging features which include, 20x digital zoom, CMOS sensor, Carl Zeiss optics, Tessar lens and Auto-focus with assisted light and a two stage capture key as well as the dedicated camera key. The N85 mobile phone comes with fantastic camera flash abilities which consist of, Duel LED flash, On/Off/Automatic and Red-eye reduction flash modes with a flash operating of 3 metres. Other great added bonus features that add a fantastic final touch are the likes of the slide cover that not only offers protection but camera activation, direct printing to compatible pictured printers, Nokia Xpress Share, Nokia Xpress Transfer, Rotating gallery with Navi wheel support and Slideshow from gallery with Ken Burns effect with automatic zoom and pan. There are so many brilliant features the Nokia N79 mobile phone.
Nokia N85 – Video Imagery
The main video camera records at up to 640 x 480 pixels and up to 30 fps with a brilliant 8x digital video zoom. The front video camera records at up to 352 x 288 pixels and up to 15 frames per second with a 2x digital video zoom feature. The video recorder records in MP4, 3GP, Codecs, H.263 & H.264 file formats with audio recording formats of AMR and AAC stereo. Other video features that comes equipped with the Nokia N85 mobile phone are, image stabilising, video streaming, video editor on device, RealPlayer® and on-line album/blog and photo/video to upload from the gallery. There are a great number of modes that the user can benefit from and use to make the most of their video footage. The choice of Modes that are available are, Scene Modes; automatic & night, Colour Tone Modes; normal, sepia, black & white, negative and vivid. The maximum clip length that can be taken is 1 hour and 30 minutes.
Nokia N85 – Music Player
The Nokia N85 mobile phone comes equipped with a fantastic digital music player system and supports popular music formats which include, MP3, WMA, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+ formats. This is a fantastic system that really will keep its user fully entertained and amused while on the go making for one superb mobile entertainment system. The user can really enjoy the great selection of facilities that will enable the user to create play-lists, selection by- artist, genre, albums and composers along with the album graphics display, skins an the equaliser. The N85 mobile phone comes available with a built-in FM stereo radio with RDS support and visual radio support as well as Nokia music manager, Nokia music store support and Nokia podcasting.
Funk up and personalise the Nokia N85 mobile phone with a ring-tone. MP3, AAC, AMR, WMA and polyphonic files can all be selected as a ring tone, 64 polyphonic ring tones are provided. These will all sound amazing with the built in 3D sound effect stereo speakers. The user can also synchronise their music with the Windows Media Player along with the Navi wheel support. The N85 mobile phone comes equipped with 74 mega-bytes of internal dynamic memory – 78 mega-bytes of NAND flash memory with memory card slot to add a MicroSD™ card hot swappable with up to a 8 gigabytes of memory providing a huge amount of storage for all the users downloads, music and other files.
Nokia N85 – Internet & Connectivity
Surfing the web on the Nokia N85 mobile phone is a pleasure with HTML, XHTML, MP, WML, WAP & CSS web browsing technologies over TCP and IP all supported. Other technologies that are also available are Nokia web browser with Mini Map & Nokia Mobile Search. All these features enables the user to shop online, keep up-to-date with all the latest news and information or to just stay in touch with friends and family with web sites such as Facebook, Bebo and MySpace. The Nokia N85 mobile also presents integrated and separate GPS, A-GPS and is cell based along with the Nokia Maps® 2.0 application. HSDPA – GPRS – EDGE – CSD – HSCSD are all network based technologies to provide you with fast network capabilities. The N85 mobile phone operates on a Quad-band network which covers EGSM 850/900/1800/1900 and the N85 will automatically switch (ROAM) between the GSM bands to find the best available network. Connecting to other compatible devices is so straight forward as the Bluetooth® version 2.0, Micro-USB, High-speed USB and 3.5mm AV connectors are all supported.
Nokia N85 – Messaging & Applications
The Nokia N85 mobile phone comes with the following messaging services, SMS, MMS (multi-media messaging), Email, Text-to-Speech and Windows Live support. The Email service supports IMAP, POP3 and SMTP protocols as well as email attachments support, email with filtering and support for Nokia Intellisync Wireless Email. The Nokia N85 will enable the user to stay in contact in every way possible.
Nokia N85 – Application Tools
The Nokia 85 mobile phone comes with a huge array of application tools, there so many to mention so we will just name a small portion of them. There is, Adobe Flash Lite 3.0, Quickoffice*reg; - ( Quickword, Quickpoint, Quicksheet), Windows Live Support, Zip Manager, Nokia Maps, Nokia Web, Browser and Nokia Download. For an even more in depth listing of all the applications provided on the N85 mobile phone please check out the specifications list below.
Nokia N85 – Gaming
The N85 mobile phone supports mobile phone gaming with embedded Java. There really are too many games to mention so again please check out below for all the information required. The N85 handset comes with an N-Gage application that will make the gaming experience even more entertaining and amazing.
Nokia N85 – Summary
Now, to sum up the Nokia N85 mobile phone, we at mobilefonereviews.co.uk really are excited about this handset and believe it is going to be a massive hit when it hits the market. It’s stylish and very cool and has technology oozing from it like no other, except for the N79. It will definitely keep any owner of this marvellous handset amused, entertained and occupied endlessly with which ever feature or function that is being used. Well done Nokia. We can’t for the Nokia N85 to be released.
Nokia N85 specification
- OS Symbian interface version 9.3 with S60 software
- 5 Mega-pixel camera with 20 x Digital zoom, Carl Zeiss optics Tessar™, CMOS sensor, Autofocus with light assist, Dual LED Flash, Slide Lens Cover & Camera key
- Picture editor, Photo slide show with Ken Burn Sound & Effects & Navi Scrolling wheel for picture gallery
- Flash Modes with Red Eye Reduction, Auto, On & Off
- Capture Modes with Video, Self Timer, Sequence & Still
- Scene Modes are Manual, Portrait, Auto, Close up, Landscape, Night, Sport & User defined
- White Balance with Fluorescent, Incandescent, Sunny, Cloudy & Auto
- Colour Tone with Vivid, Negative, Black, White, Sepia & Normal
- Video Recorder with MPEG4, H263, H264 & 3GP formats & video Player with MPEG4, H263, H264 & 3GP formats
- Front camera for video recording has 2 x Digital zoom
- Main camera for video recording has 8 x Digital zoom
- Video Stabiliser, Video Streaming, Picture & Video Blogging, Video modes & Video light
- Video Calling, Caller ID & TV Out
- 2.6 inch QVGA display with 16.7 million colours & 320 x 240 pixels
- Brightness Control & Light detector
- Built-in GPS navigation with AGPS function & Nokia maps 2.0
- Music player supports WMA, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+ & MP3 formats
- Album Art, Music Selection, Playlists & Equaliser
- Built-in RDS FM radio & Nokia radio via internet
- Polyphonic, MP3, AAC, AAC+ & Video Ringtones
- Music & Audio streaming, Devoted music & Volume keys
- Stereo speakers in 3D & Stereo microphone
- Voice activated name dialling, voice recorder & voice commands
- SMS, MMS, Email (POP, IMAP & SMTP), Email with attachments, Wireless Email support & Email filtering
- Predictive text messaging
- Built-in games, Java™ games & downloadable games
- Personal organiser with Phonebook, calendar, Clock, Calculator, Flight mode, Notes, Push to talk, Conference call & VoIP internet call
- Built-in hands free speakerphone
- Call log, Call waiting Speed dial & Vibrating alert
- Illuminated keys & Navi™ wheel control
- 74 Megabytes of memory with support for upto 8 Gigabytes MicroSD™ Memory card
- EDGE Technology
- WLAN Wi-Fi, Bluetooth®, 3G HSDPA & Micro USB Connectivity
- Quad band 1900 GSM, 1800 GSM, 900 GSM & 850 GSM Networks
- HTML, CSS, WML & XHTML MP Web browsers
- Nokia web browser with Mini maps
- WCDMA Talk time 4.5 hrs
- VoIP Talk time 6 hrs
- GSM Talk time 3.9 hrs
- WCDMA Standby 363 hrs
- WLAN Standby 172 hrs
- Video Playback time 3.5 hrs
- Music Playback time 30 hrs
- Size 16 x 50 x 103mm
- Weight 128 grams
Nokia N85 consumer reviews
Read what other thought of the Nokia N85. Why not add you own Nokia N85 review by clicking the Add your Review tab above.Reviewed by Wayne from Manchester, UK on 16 August 2009
Rating:
Okay, but seen betterNot recommended.
Build quality is poor, slider is loose, plastic feels cheap and crappy, call / hangup buttons squeak when pressed.
Firmware is pretty poor and, although there's been some major firmware updates, it won't update.. Been told to change my product code to update firmware, but with other issues, don't wanna lose my warranty.
Very expensive for such a cheap crappy phone.
Camera on a par with my 2mp SE w810i camera.
Reviewed by Rachel from Manchester, UK on 15 May 2009
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Good mobile phoneI have finally got hold of one.... after waiting so long.
I originally wanted it brand new but got it preowned from my nearest market at a bargain price of £150, to find that the sound quality is from one of the speakers is damaged... It such a good phone from what ive seen so far and very dissappointed that im going to have to take it back.
Reviewed by andy from wolverhampton, UK on 18 February 2009
Rating:
Don't buy it 
had this phone 3 months now, not user friendly at all, cheaply made probably the worst phone ive owned
Reviewed by nikhil from dubai, United Arab Emirates on 17 February 2009
Rating:
I WANT ONE!! 
The mobile phone is awesome... with as many features u can imagine... Sound quality is also good... But only glitch is it has very low inbuilt memory and have to pich in an external card whose capcity is amximum 8 GB....Overall the best handset to buy in todays scenario...
Reviewed by Jahirul from London, UK on 15 February 2009
Rating:
Don't buy it This is the worst phone ever I had owned. It keeps restarting when on main or USB charge. Poor voice quality on Vodafone network. Call drops on middle of call. Poor camera quality compared to n73.
I sent mine for repair. I would stay away from this phone.
Reviewed by MultiPhoneOwner from London, UK on 30 January 2009
Rating:
Good mobile phoneTempted to give more.
Screen great contrast, slightly smaller than things like N96. Being OLED does seem to translate into good bettery life.
Games good fun.
Camera zoom a bit slow but quality plenty good enough.
FM transmitter great feature to listen to your own tunes.
Currently in household we have 9 mobiles and this one is greatly admired for capabilities and easy to use.
A good touchscreen interface of this would make this device unbeatable.
Can't understand why this isn't marketed more than N96 but then that makes this one a bit more exclusive.
Reviewed by Erwin from Edensor Park, Australia on 06 January 2009
Rating:
Okay, but seen betterI got my N85 3 weeks ago, so far im impressed with its battery life and OLED screen...
I like the way you can organize your Mp3 files...(like changing genres, names of songs,
Playlist organizing...etc)
What i dont like about this fone is that Nokia has changed the charging tip from 2mm tip to micro usb tip...its a shame they have to change the charging tip. Now i have to buy spare chargers coz i cant borrow chargers from someone elses nokia.....if they keep on doing that then i might try other phones like the apple iphone. Another thing is that the face is abit on the soft side coz i remember playing a demo game, i pressed the key pad too hard and cracked the lower tip of the plasticy face. NOKIA- why do you have to change the charging tip?! It would have been perfect if it had the usuall 2mm charging tip!
Reviewed by Natasha from Bedfordshire, UK on 25 December 2008
Rating:
Okay, but seen betterA great phone!!!! So much better then any samsung or Sony Ericsson i have had and believe me i have had them all the Omnia, Tocco, C905, G500, Soul, u name it i have had it, if they are not up to par and i am very fussy with phones they go straight back. Battery life is absolutely outstanding, very simple to use and i am only just beginning to explore some of the features. Very impressive!! A definite recommended buy
Reviewed by Bill from london, UK on 08 December 2008
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Good mobile phonethought phone was fantastic,but One major problem,when connected to Bluetooth people ringing you, said they can't here you talking,to much interfearance.Tried nokia Bluetooth and two other makes but no different,then saw on web that ploblem has happened to a person in America who was reviewing the phone.Took back to shop exchanged for same model but problem still happened with new one. Very sad to see it go, might get another when nokia has fixed the problem.
Reviewed by mimi from london, UK on 22 November 2008
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Okay, but seen bettercan it support pdf documents?
Reviewed by Bill from london, UK on 20 November 2008
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I WANT ONE!! had this phone for a week now, fantastic mobil,can do better than n96 and more.Go for it you will be so pleased.
Reviewed by Nokia N85 Fan from London, UK on 28 October 2008
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I WANT ONE!! I love the Nokia N85. When is the exact release date of the N85?
Reviewed by Sasi from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 23 October 2008
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I WANT ONE!! i wanted to buy a N96 but after comparing the N85 with it, the N85 is definitely the better choice. im still waiting for it to be released over here. Despite the lack of 3D HW Graphics Accelarator, i am not too concerned as no N-Gage games employ that for now. it is much better on my budget compared to a N96 anyway :)
Reviewed by Zayne from Cape Town, South Africa on 09 September 2008
Rating:
Okay, but seen betterQUESTION- Why does the N85, N96 and N81 look so similia? cud nokia be running out of design ideas....
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