- The good: The Nokia 6086
has a solid, easy-to-use design with a decent array of features that
include Bluetooth, a VGA camera, a music player, and a speakerphone. It
also supports T-Mobile's HotSpot @Home service that lets you make calls
over Wi-Fi as well as regular cellular airwaves. - The bad: The Nokia 6086 has a lackluster display and mediocre photo quality.
- The bottom line: The
Nokia 6086 is a well-built, basic camera phone with good call quality,
but its most impressive feature is its ability to make calls via Wi-Fi.
The Nokia 6086 is one of two cell phones that T-Mobile has rolled out in conjunction with its new HotSpot @Home
service--the other one being the Samsung SGH-T409. The HotSpot @Home
service lets you make calls via Wi-Fi without taking up any of your
plan's minutes, plus it greatly enhances the phone's reception. Because
the Nokia 6086
is a UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access) phone, it is able to automatically
switch calls between regular GSM cellular airwaves and preconfigured
wireless networks. Other than that, the Nokia 6086 has a decent set of
features--it has a VGA camera, a music player, Bluetooth, a
speakerphone, and not much else. It has a very solid design with one of
the best keypads we've seen, and is a pretty good option for those who
want to try out the HotSpot @Home service. It's available for $49.99
with a two-year contract.
Design
Even though it's a tad bulky at 1.8 inches wide by 3.6 inches tall by
0.9 inch thick, the Nokia 6086 has a pretty attractive design. Covered
in a coat of faux brushed aluminum, the 6086 has smooth clean lines and
curved edges, making it nice to hold in the hand. It weighs around 2.9
ounces, which isn't too heavy, and can be pocketed easily without
weighing you down. On the front of the phone is a tiny 1-inch diagonal
monochrome external display that shows all the essentials like time,
battery life, signal strength, and caller ID. The tiny LCD doesn't
support photo caller ID, and you won't be able to use it as a camera
viewfinder for self-portraits. The left spine is home to a volume
rocker plus a dedicated camera key, while there's a microSD card slot
on the right.
Flip open the phone and you'll see a very lackluster 1.75-inch diagonal
display. Even though it supports 262,000 colors, it only has up to
128x160 pixel resolution, so images and menu icons ended up looking
washed out and blurry. You can't change the brightness or backlight
time, but you can change the font size for messaging, the contacts
list, and the Web browser. The Nokia 6086 supports T-Mobile's MyFaves,
so you'll be presented with five contact thumbnails to scroll through
directly on the main display if you so choose.
Underneath the main display is the navigation array that consists of
two soft keys, a four-way toggle with a middle OK key, and the Talk and
End/Power buttons. The four-way toggle also doubles as four
user-defined shortcuts. A dedicated speakerphone key is unfortunately
missing. Overall, the keypad on the Nokia 6080 is one of the best
keypads we've ever had the pleasure to use. All the keys from the
navigation array to the alphanumeric keypad are large, spacious, and
have a bubbled texture that makes it impossible to press a key by
mistake.
Features
Other than the HotSpot @Home support, the Nokia 6086 is a pretty basic
camera phone. It has a 500-contact phone book with room in each entry
for five phone numbers, an e-mail address, notes, a birthday, and a Web
and street address. They can also be categorized into groups, paired
with any of 17 polyphonic ringtones, or a photo for caller ID (although
do remember that they won't show up on the external screen). You can
also select up to five entries to be your MyFaves contacts. Other
features include a vibrate mode, a speakerphone, text and multimedia
messaging, instant messaging (with support for Windows Live, AIM, ICQ,
and Yahoo), an alarm clock, a calendar, a task list, a voice recorder,
a calculator, a timer, a stopwatch, Bluetooth, and a wireless web
browser via T-Mobile's t-Zones.Of course, the most important feature in the Nokia 6086 is its
support for T-Mobile's HotSpot @Home service. The service lets you
connect to any wireless network to make, answer, and receive calls.
Additionally, calls made via Wi-Fi will not be deducted from your
plan's minutes. You can read more about HotSpot @Home in our review of the service.
Even though the Nokia 6086 has a few multimedia features such as a
camera and a music player, they're pretty bare-bones. It has a VGA
camera with only three resolution settings (640x480, 320x240, 160x120),
three quality settings, several color effects, and a self-timer. The
built-in camcorder has pretty much the same settings, with two
different lengths--30 seconds or so for video mail, and as much as the
available memory. Photo quality was pretty disappointing, and video
quality was mediocre as well, with a lot of blurry and overcast images.
The phone's music player is also pretty basic, and has the standard
play, pause, and track shuttle controls. There is an equalizer with six
different presets, however. You can upload songs from your PC via a
microSD card.
There are quite a few personalization options with the Nokia 6086. You
can customize your wallpaper, screensavers, themes, sound alerts, and
ringtones, plus you have the option to buy and download more from
T-Mobile. A few games are included in the phone--Brain Challenge, Golf Tour, Highroller, Sudoku, and World Poker Tour--and you can always download more as well.
Performance
We tested the quad-band (GSM 850/900/1800/1900) Nokia 6086 in San Francisco using the T-Mobile
service plus with a few wireless networks thanks to the T-Mobile
HotSpot @Home service. Call quality was surprisingly good--voices
sounded natural and clear, even when in speakerphone mode. This was the
same with both GSM cellular airwaves and when using Wi-Fi. The signal
strength also improves remarkably when using the 6086 within a wireless
network, which makes us think the HotSpot @Home service is definitely a
great feature. We also paired the Nokia 6086 with the Cardo S-640 Bluetooth headset
without any problems. Sound quality of the music player was OK but
rather subpar. Music sounded tinny, with not a lot of bass at all.
The Nokia 6086 has a rated talk time of five hours and a rated standby time of four days. According to FCC radiation tests, the Nokia 6086 has a digital SAR rating of 1.15 watts per kilogram.
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