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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Everything the N95 should have been. , 16 Jan 2008
Before buying this phone I had an N95, which is a reasonable phone but with some serious shortcomings mainly due to the speed of the software. Look at my N95 review if you want to know the exact details. The N82, in short, is the same as the N95 except everything works, and works well.
First off, yes, this phone is a bit unsightly and industrial looking. I have never liked 'candybar' style phones or rice grain keys. I had thought this would be difficult to overlook when I first considered buying it. I was wrong. You get used to the rice grain keys, they're really not as awkward as they first appear and the candybar form turned out to be a non-issue. Sure, pressing two keys doesn't look as dramatic as flipping / sliding your phone open but it works perfectly well. In fact, I don't miss waiting for "keypad locked" to appear on the N95 before I shoved it back in my pocket.
I haven't really investigated the PC software, but I assume it's almost identical to the N95's. You can find my rant regarding the maps etc in my N95 review. I haven't used the software yet because I haven't needed to. I just put my old micro-SD card from my N95 in this phone and everything worked as it should. The maps were loaded, as was my music, photos and movies, all where you'd expect to find them.
One aspect of the phone that has been infinitely improved is the camera. The camera now has xenon flash which works extremely well and doesn't consume nearly as much battery power as you'd imagine. Before - using my N95 - my friends were nearly always half-illuminated with a blue tint on their blurry faces and demonic red eyes. Now they actually look like people. In focus, well-lit, in a bright background with rich colours. There is still some red eye, despite the red eye reduction flash technique, but only a little.
The main improvement to the camera, however, is the speed. In my timed tests, the N82 is twice as fast as the N95 at almost everything in the camera application. Start-up is fast, focusing is fast, processing the picture is fast. Not as fast as a digital compact, but the wait time is bearable.
The software has been updated slightly since the N95 original. It's a controversial change, but I much prefer it. On the home screen there are six icons along the top, which you can change according to your preferences and there is also a search, calender reminder, wifi finder and - if you have music playing - your current music track in a list down the centre. What this means is you can instantly get to your favourite applications quicker while also allowing you to keep an eye on what various different applications are doing (e.g. what music track is playing).
The media player is more or less the same. The only real different is it is instantly responsive. The sound quality has also been improved and the hiss during quiet portions of songs is almost completely gone. You might not hear this at all with regular headphones but with my Sennheiser in-ear 'phones, it's occasionally noticeable. The headphone jack now, thankfully, sits on top of the phone.
The maps are exactly the same, except the GPS ACTUALLY WORKS! Even without A-GPS I can get a lock inside of my house most of the time. Getting a GPS lock typically takes under 10 seconds, even inside. The map application is, as before, very capable. Finding nearby pubs, restaurants and landmarks is easy and intuitive.
The phone comes with 3G, but considering the spotty connectivity in the UK, I usually use GSM instead. It saves me constantly loosing my connection and gives me a little more battery life. I mostly use phone supported pages anyway, but if you want to browse full web pages, the phone seems capable of doing so without too much hassle.
I really like this phone. It has proved itself superior to the N95 at every turn. It's not pretty, but it's more than capable. If you're not too bothered by looks, buy this phone, you wont be disappointed.
PS, the N95 I've been waffling on about in this review is the N95 original, I've heard that the N95-8gb doesn't have some of the originals issues.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Nokia N82 , 13 Jan 2008
I had waited for this phone to come out - upgrading from a Nokia N73. (I found the N73 ok - camera could be good but everything was rather slow, and fed up with waiting for applications to open.) The N82 was fab right out of the box. The email set up wizard was ace - I use web based mail but just entered my address and password and I was reading my mail right away! The sat nav is a fun thing: I have had a great session browing the web lighteningly quick over the wifi broadband link, and have already taken a load of photos. The quality of the 5mp camera is wonderful and the flash also superb. It fires up really quickly - and is very fast moving on to the next shot. I find the keys better than the N73 but I do have small fingers - the central key works very well. The battery goes down quite fast when doing the broadband/browsing/photography, but for phone use stays charged for a good long time - I need it to work all the time and find the charge in the car on the way to work (15 mins) plenty to keep going with my normal use - mostly phoning, regular photography, and some internet browsing. So glad I have this phone!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Overall another good N-Series, 12 Jun 2009
The Nokia N82 has proven to be another excellent Nokia N-Series handset. It may not have much built-in memory (only 100MB) but with an easily accessible MicroSD slot, you won't be short of storage space especially with such memory cards selling high capacities at very competitive prices.
Battery life seems to be very good for this handset, considering the functionality it offers.
This phone offers an excellent 5 megapixel camera with a xenon flash (one of the few handsets offering this type of flash at the time of release to the market) and Carl Zeiss optics, and as a result also records good quality video as well as photos.
The media functionality of this handset is good, with excellent potential for storage of many good quality photos and music tracks. Coupled with the usual excellent functionality of easily-synchronised calendars and the like, Nokia have produced another good all-round N-Series handset.
Those who find smaller keypads fiddly might be put off by the small buttons, and the one annoyance the handset does possess is the ease at which the small media shortcut button can be pressed, particularly when using the 'c' button for backspace when composing an SMS! As a result, I'd drop a mark for this phone giving it only 4/5.
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