Nokia N82 Review From An Excited Non-Techie User
I got my Nokia N82 last Friday and it’s been three long years since I upgraded. My Nokia 6230i is already in bad physical shape but it functions fully well. Good thing I can purchase the old phone for P1, and got this N82 for free on a 30-month locked-in period with Smart for plan 1800. N82 sells at P16,000 to P18,000 ($350 - $400) in the local market. It was first introduced in the Philippines in the last quarter of 2007.
General features of the Nokia N82 include:
• Dimensions: Volume - 90 cc; Weight - 114 g ; Size - 112 x 50 x 17 mm
• Operating system: S60 software on Symbian OS
• User interface: S60 3rd edition, Feature Pack 1
• Automatic Screen Rotation
• Available Colors: Gray, Black
• Display: TFT, 16.7 million colours, 240 x 320 pixels, 2.4″,
• 5 megapixel camera (2592 x 1944 pixels), autofocus, 6x digital zoom, Carl Zeiss Optics, Tessar lens, xenon flash, macro mode
• Video capture: VGA, 30 fps, 4x digital zoom, MPEG4/3GP, Digital video stabilisation
• Front camera for video calling (352 x 288 pixels)
• Photo & video editors
• Assisted Global Positioning System (A-GPS)
• RealPlayer media player
• Digital music player: supports MP3/AAC/eAAC/eAAC+/WMA/M4A with playlists, OMA DRM 2.0/1.0 & WMDRM support for music
• Stereo FM radio (87.5-108MHz) with Visual Radio support
• Integrated stereo hands-free speaker
• Speaker independent name dialing and voice commands
• Nokia Push to talk (PoC)
• Messaging: SMS, MMS, E-mail (SMTP, IMAP4, POP3) with attachment support
• Advanced S60 PIM features including calendar, contacts, to-do list and PIM printing
• Internet: GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA (3.6Mbps download), HTML web browser
• Connectivity: Bluetooth, USB 2.0, WLAN (802.11 b/g), TV-Out, 3.5 mm stereo headphone port
• Nokia XpressPrint: direct printing via USB(PictBridge), Bluetooth connectivity (BPP), and WLAN (UPnP) or via online printing
• Memory: 100 MB plus hot-swappable microSD memory card slot (2 GB card supplied)
• Quadband (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) plus 3.5G (WCDMA 2100 HSDPA)
• Talktime: 190 minutes (3G) - 260 minutes (2G)
• Battery standby: 210 - 225 hours
• Video call: up to 120 minutes
• Music playback time: up to 10 hours (offline mode)
• No infrared
What I like about Nokia N82
It is the best phone offered at essentially low price. It comes free in some plan packages. They say that the features are similar to N95. All I need, or I think I need in a phone right now are in this unit. The physical design is fine with me, though I requested for the color black. Too bad the color I wanted is not readily available.
It is the Wifi and the camera that really sold me out. The call and message features are too basic. The music is fine, but it drains a lot of battery. In this time where connectivity is the in-thing, this phone is surely not lacking of the right punch. And what’s with the camera? Now I can take better picture anytime and post them in my blog. Here’s a sample pic:
What I don’t like about Nokia N82
There are too few color choices. A black and gray combination, or silver and black would surely catch attention. The key pads are too small. I’m so getting used to the bigger pads of the 6230i. I really had difficulty sending SMS. And there are no shortcuts to voice calls. It will take me a few clicks more before I’d make a call to a number in my contacts.
It’s kinda slippery too. I fear it might slip out from my pocket and hopefully not into the wrong hands. I also don’t know how the camera reacts to impact.
Perhaps what I am experiencing now is simply part of the pains in phone upgrades. I still don’t know any easier way to transfer my contacts info. Thanks to their lengthy users’ guide, it sure is of great help.
Conclusion
For the non-techies, it’s the camera and video features that matters most here, aside from the fact this phone is packed with excellent features. For the price and features, I highly recommend this one.
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September 30th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Nice. I am not too particular with a phone’s feature - as long as it has a cam, hsdpa or faster - i’m fine. Hehe, but this one’s got 5mega pixel - its cool!
September 30th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Hay. I’ve been wanting to own an N82. Guess I should settle with my SE K530 for now. It may take a long time before I could own one. So sad.
October 1st, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Bro,
if ambo won in the Phil Bloggers’s Choice Award baka may ganyan na rin ako for Free. lol!
At any rate, it’s really a cool phone up for review in my tech site. Here in Laoag City, that unit costs 17,500 hihiramin ko muna yung phone ng pinsan ko. I can’t buy yet dahil kabibili ko lang ng 2 phones. Grabe kasi tong mga updates ng phones. Madalas nakaka-tempt kahit hindi naman tayo active cell phone users.
October 2nd, 2008 at 6:06 am
bloggista, cool indeed! unless it’s a dslr, i don’t need another cam for now. hehe.
Jam, prices are dropping and newer models are coming fast. By next month, there could be a better and reasonably priced nokia phone.
jessie, wait na lang for the Gphone. hehe.
October 3rd, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Hello Ceblogger ! Thanks for downloading our ebook. Hope you can help us promote it. This is our small contribution to the “revolution” hehehehe
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Always glad to see a fellow cebuano blogger
October 5th, 2008 at 12:17 am
October 6th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
i ought to get myself a new phone too! one that has wifi would be cool. i was waiting for the iphone but its too pricey, i can get a laptop for the price. let’s see with the G1 phone by google.