Nokia N85 Expert Reviews

Nokia's newest unlocked Nseries phone packs a snazzy OLED screen and loads of features. Is this our favorite of the bunch? Find out in our Nokia N85 review.

Great camera took very nice pics. Very good call quality with clean sound. Solid multimedia performance

Interface design needs an update in main menus and multimedia apps. Small keypad. Phone looks like a smoothed brick

Of course, once you turn on the Nokia N85, you might forget all about the boring design. Nokia phones have always had impressive displays, but the OLED screen on the N85 is among the most attractive phone screens we've seen. The resolution comes up a ...

The Nokia N85 ($370 unlocked, as of 4/7/2009) is very similar to the company's N96, but with one big difference: It has an OLED display, and a gorgeous one--a huge boon because the N85 has excellent multimedia and camera features. But like the N95, ...

Gorgeous OLED display Excellent multimedia features

Slider build feels cheap No touch screen or QWERTY keyboard

If you can get past the at-times frustrating navigation, the N85 is a solid buy with its superb multimedia features and high-quality camera

The Nokia N85 might have been released late last year, and we have taken it for a spin for a considerable amount of time before publishing our findings. This can be considered to be the second generation of the N Series from the Finnish cell phone ...

What endears me to the N85 is its ease-of-use and the introduction of USB modem tethering that doubles up as a charging session as well - nifty if you're looking to work in areas with 3G but have no Wi-Fi. This is one well balanced handset from Nokia ...

Phone Scoop takes a look at the Nokia N85. It offers many of the same specs as the N96, but this N Series phone comes in a smaller, more pocket-friendly package.

The N85 is an excellent multimedia, mobile Internet, and GPS device, but it's a bit lacking as a phone.

Amazing OLED display, 8GB of storage, Wi-Fi, Good Web browser

Some dropped calls in NYC, Mediocre battery life

When you click the device’s Menu option you’re presented with a standard home screen offering that provides shortcuts to Contacts, your music, Photos, the Web, and more. We noticed that the device was zippy while we moved through menus, but within ...

Somewhere out there there is someone lusting after the N85. For some reason the rest of the world loves these lumpen little phones. Perhaps the Nokia N-series calls up memories of the old phones that we once clung to in the dark ages of cellular ...

The N85's navigational experience is among the best we have ever encountered.

The N85's navigational experience is among the best we have ever encountered.

Despite being boxed with an 8GB memory card, 85MB of internal memory is rather pitiful.

An excellent all-rounder that is sure not to remain in the N96's shadow

Nokia N85 is the first phone of Nokia's N-series which is equipped with an OLED display. That technology doesn't consume that much energy, doesn't fade away in direct sunlight and offers a ......

Magnificent image of the organic display, Loud and high-quality sound no matter whether you're talking or listening to music with the headphones, A good camera

It's not offering anything new, besides the cool display, Its overall build quality doesn't match its high price, The Navi wheel sensor is almost unusable, The camera shutter is not user-friendly, The captured videos freeze

On the whole we are quite disappointed by the N85 due the total lack of new features. It's not a bad phone, but there are no innovations compared to previous models. The

N85 is the latest Nseries signing and a bulletproof spec sheet sets it right in the thick of all-in-one action. Full-house connectivity and multimedia prowess topped with a massive OLED screen to die for, Nokia N85 gives the lineup a great edge...

2.6" 16M-color OLED display of QVGA resolution ; 5 megapixel autofocus camera with dual-LED flash and AF assist light ; Camera lens cover ; Symbian OS 9.3 with S60 3.2 UI ; ARM 11 369 MHz CPU ; 3G with HSDPA support ; Quad-band GSM support ; Wi-Fi ...

No office document editing out of the box ; Not the best sunlight legibility ; Unconvincing camera performance ; Poor Navi wheel performance ; Zooming in on a picture takes bloody ages

With N85 the free slots between N70 and N96 seem to be quickly running up. But that will be a minor issue for Nokia - the much bigger challenge after N85 will be finding some new tricks to upgrade the lineup with