Nokia N86 - Phone Plus Camera or Camera Plus Phone?

Nokia's N86 while being a subtle step forward in the phone line has made some very elegant leaps in the high quality compact camera line. The N86 is currently ahead of the pack with its 8 mega-pixel resolution. There are only a few camera phones that have managed to push that big of a sensor into a phone to date. This is Nokia's first entrant into that elite club. On further inspection, they describe the rest of the first-ever-in-a-cell-phone goodies that are crammed into its slim case. The press release doesn't do itself justice as it describes the features that move the camera aspects of this phone from simple pocket camera to sophisticated point-and-shoot. To handle bright and dark scenes an adjustable aperture kicks into gear absorbing maximum light to create images that would have been blurry or grainy at best on lesser machines. There's also the Carl Zeiss Tessar optics improving clarity with a sliding lens cover and a dual LED flash. Video is a respectable but not earth shattering 640x480 up to 30fps

To accessorize your sharp new photos they've packed the 8GB on-board storage with Geotagging programs and Ovi and Flickr support for uploading your images to your online photo albums. Again if you are actually interested in the phone part you can check out the press release and the hardware specifications. Most of the other features are on par with other top cameras (smart or otherwise) of today with a 2.6" OLED, dual slider design and microSDHC card slot for expandability but this is the only one that may let you retire two completely different gadgets.