The heft (149g) aside, holding and touching this latest Nokia phone was a joy. It is so rare for Nokia to produce a Nseries phone that is more beautiful than an Eseries one! Indeed, i might even find this phone to be more eyecandelicious than the Sirocco series! (As an aside, if you are coming off from a light phone like i was with N79, it might take a while - say a day - to get used to the weight.)
The front fascia is essentially hardened dark grey glass with an OLED screen. This slab of lovely glass is framed by dark chrome. My gripe is there is enough room for a 2.8 inch screen (although then the ratio of the screen can't be 16:9 then i suppose). The OLED screen when indoors is as good as N85; but where it shines is outdoors. Legibility outdoors is surprisingly good -- i usually only set it to Level 2 of the brightness of display and it is good enough to read the screen when i am outdoors!
Beneath the screen are the left/right selection keys which are wisely inconspicuous as the material is transparent plastic. Unlike the N85 where these keys are on the same plane as the screen, these buttons are nicely elevated like N82 number pad buttons or the N79's left/right selection keys.
Beneath these buttons are the call/end buttons which are made from the same plastic but are in green and red respectively. These 4 buttons are already a cut above the usual crass quality of Nseries buttons; the Dpad however is another issue altogether. It speaks class: a narrow ridge of chrome serves as the navigation keys while the confirm key is sunken in. The confirm key is made of a material that feels somewhere between glass and plastic. The design of the Dpad makes mistakened presses unlikely. What is really interesting is that the confirm key can hardly be seen as it is sunken but yet the press on it are so assuring. A design marvel indeed!
Unlike the N85/N79 and N82 where the Cancel (C) button is on the same plane as the screen, on the N86, it is raised like the left/right soft keys. The multimedia key (which i like) is now missing from N86.
The menu key is my favourite key design-wise. While it is placed a slight bit lower than the other buttons, it is still easy to feel for and locate without looking. It is tilted 45 degree unlike the other buttons which are either horizontal or vertical. While the other buttons look ordinary, the same can't be said for the menu button. It is metallic with many minute holes: when lights passes through the holes, the effect is beautiful!
So far, the N86 8MP is really impressing me! I will write more about it soon!
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