The well respected 'tnkgrl' takes on the Nokia N86 here, comparing its results to those from two other top camera phones. It's fair to dsay that she was impressed though not blown away - and most interestingly of all, she also experienced the 'frame drops soon after initial capture' that I've been battling with (more description below). Comments welcome if you too have seen this.

The symptoms I've seen are that you start to shoot a video and then a second into the footage, up to a couple of seconds of video are dropped (though the audio continues) - this is really annoying. I've been experimenting by reformatting the mass memory and will report back, but in the meantime if you too have seen this behaviour then please chip in with a comment!

Read tnkgrl's piece here.