Nokia N86 8MP finally available stateside

It's still showing as a preorder on Nokia USA's own site, but Amazon and the brick-and-mortar flagship stores in Chicago and New York are finally stocking the N86 8MP -- a little bit of a stretch for the "coming weeks" claim made at the North American version's launch announcement back in July. The beefy dual slider features a 2.6-inch QVGA OLED display, US 3G up to 3.6Mbps on the downlink, and WiFi -- but clearly the big draw is its 8 megapixel cam with Carl Zeiss optics around back accompanied by a dual LED flash. We would've liked this last month, but the good news is that it's launching for less than the $558 originally mentioned: Amazon's got it written up at $469, while the flagship stores are apparently hawking 'em for $30 more.

[Via The Nokia Blog]

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2009 3:35PM]

Q. Why don't I just get a stand alone camera?

1. Because you don't always have your camera with you.
2. Because point and shoots don't have the same sharing options like instant uploads, email or MMS

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 19th 2009 4:34AM]

Shame I'm not looking for a new phone. Nokias got some good ones coming out (drooling over the n900).
Sticking with my e71 for now!