Flashback: the Nokia N86 8MP was the last of the great Symbian sliders

05 November 2023
Nokia's first 8MP phone was adorned with a beautiful AMOLED display and it had free navigation. The one thing it didn't have was a touchscreen. 

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Anonymous, 05 Nov 2023Symbian Belle was killed by Nokia itself. up until 2011, ... moreHere's one... with a NOKIA C3, the one that had a Qverty keyboard in those days... From that model I made the jump to Android with an HTC dram, or better known as G one! Since then I have been on Android, except in 2020 with an iPhone 11 that I sold in 2021 and I jumped back to Android. But you are absolutely right, Nokia itself killed its entire ecosystem and that elop was just a trojan horse within Nokia, the fault of Microsoft, which wanted Nokia patents.

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    • 05 Nov 2023

    Still have Best Camera and best phone .....

      Anonymous, 05 Nov 2023Symbian Belle was killed by Nokia itself. up until 2011, ... moreAlso Elop didn't release new phones, so people can't buy symbian if no new phone was released. Only Nokia 808 was released at end and even that was Enthuasist device.

      Elop Feared Symbian and Meego would Eat windows phone Marketshare.

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        • Lister
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        • 05 Nov 2023

        I had the N86, it was a great little phone, but released too late. I also remember GSM Arena's opinions regarding the Camera that didn't have Xenon Flash (how times change).


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          SpiritWolf, 05 Nov 2023Pretty sure that 'high point of Symbian' was Bell... moreSymbian Belle was killed by Nokia itself.
          up until 2011, there were still many Symbian users out there.
          but after the infamous "burning platform" memo, many of them jump ship to Android, Blackberry, and iOS. nobody gives a damn about Symbian anymore because they knew there was no future for Symbian.

            Mediatek sux, 05 Nov 2023Probably because there wasnt much price or performance diff... moreeverything about the pixel 8 pro is cheap, except its price

              Make a Flashback about the Motorola Moto G, about how it could be personalized with the different covers that were available to change, also the Motorola X series, without a doubt those were fun cell phones

                How I loved the Nokia N series!! fun times, and even more so when this Christmas season arrived, looking at the activities that at that time were many... nice times

                  Carol, 05 Nov 2023I use their phones and are way better then a lot of china g... morehave you ever used their budget devices? if so, what is your experience after using it? let me know
                  even "china garbage" phones are more worth buying than hmd. there is nothing i can do about it. it's the reality 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

                    Pretty sure that 'high point of Symbian' was Belle. Which was miles better compared to Spydroid back then.
                    But influencers (you too guys) messed with people's heads and we can see outcome. Inferior product, spyware masquerading as OS, won.

                      I miss n8 and n91.

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                        • 05 Nov 2023

                        Good times, there was innovation in smartphone design...

                          Well guys, when things were fun

                            Reesta68, 05 Nov 2023I had the N95 8Gb and then the N85, both great phones. Noki... moreThey had better software called Maemo which was merged with mobile Linux and became Meego.

                              Carol, 05 Nov 2023Of course is not true, NOKIA N8 sold in 2010 more then appl... moreN8 Didn't sell like that, but had respectable figures, It was Total Nokia smartphone sold were more than Samsung and Apple Combined. It was this time Nokia 5230 sold more than 150M units.

                              Then Elop came and ruined everything.

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                                • 05 Nov 2023

                                Had this one. After N91 music edition. Was a really great phone. Was upset with n97 after it and got 1st iPhone and that's it. Gone from interesting stuff for 14 years. But back to interesting folds now again

                                  Nokia's glorious past.
                                  Nokia's ruinous present.

                                    Today phones cost the same 1000+ with no improvements at all past few years. Samsung, Apple, Google etc.

                                      you have to suffer, 05 Nov 2023nokia has revived, it is under HMD and ended up making garb... moreBarely usable only your comment.

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                                        JanCapek, 05 Nov 2023Elop ruined it! I don't believe what others say th... moreOf course is not true, NOKIA N8 sold in 2010 more then apple and samsung combined, so yeah, they for sure did better then a lot of people want to recognise.
                                        They also had MeeGo into plan, that was a really briliant system on it' own, plus the fact that they wete working on bringing the posivility to install android apps and afaik symbian apps too. With Android comming hard and their MeeGo it is quite d. to even claim that Nokia was going down yatta yatta yatta. They were doing great, and that is the problem, they were sabotaged by 3 powers, apple google and microsoft, as all of them knew that with nokia upfront there will be no apple in europe, well at least not like it is now. Microsoft needs apple to be alive and google wanted their recently bought OS to succeed. That is when elop came in... A person that was slowly killing nokia with a smile on his face.

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