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Beside N96, Nokia (Indonesia) also announced N85. The latest of the N8x series. Well, the previous line up in this series is N82. As we all know that Nokia never attributed ‘4′ in its official product, so we miss the “N83″ here. Anyway, N85 is segmented as new gaming device to replace Nokia N81. There are about 10 pre-loaded N-Gage games in the phone and ready to be played.

N85 is the first Nseries with OLED display. OLED screen will help exposing more intriguing colors in N85’s 2.6 inch wide screen. The form factor is sliding, really resembles its predecessor, N81. With black front cover and brownish back cover, this device has only 16 mm thick, 2 mm thinner than N96.

Most of what we can get in N96 are also available in N85, like HSDPA, 5 megapixels camera (alos with Dual LED camera flash), WiFi, and Assisted-GPS (A-GPS) with integrated three month navigation license inbox and geotagging, plus more battery life (BL-5K 1200 mAh).

Here are some specification of Nokia N85:

• Triband HSDPA and Quadband GSM
• Symbian S60 3rd edition, Feature Pack 2, Multimedia Menu
• 103 x 50 x 16 mm
• 128 grams
• AM OLED 2.6 inch QVGA screen (240 x 320 pixels) with up to 16 million colors
• Up to 74 MB internal dynamic memory, 78 MB internal NAND flash memory, 8 GB inbox microSD memory card
• 5 megapixels Carl Zeiss Tessar camera with F2.8 Aperture, 5.45 mm focal length, and Dual LED camera flash and video light
• Up to 170 minutes of talk time (3G) and 410 minutes of talk time (GSM)
• Up to 360 hours of standby time (3G and GSM)
• WLAN 802.11b/g with UPnP support
• MicroUSB connector, Hi Speed USB 2.0 support
• 3.5 mm stereo headphone jack and TV-out support (PAL/NTSC)
• Bluetooth 2.0 with stereo audio support
• A-GPS with Nokia Maps 2.0 and geotagging
• FM transmitter and FM receiver
• 10 pre-loaded N-Gage games and one free game activation voucher

The phone will be available on Q4 2008. The price tag has not been disclosed. This is the true Nokia gaming phone with superb display screen!