Yesterday Nokia announced the launch and release of the latest addition to the NSeries range, the Nokia N82. Whilst most people are still waiting for their phone to arrive, we at Mobiles.co.uk have got a handset in house ready to review, thanks to the NSeries Blog.
The N82 focuses mainly on the camera, hence the tagline What cameras have become. However, it would be a shame to think that is all the N82 has to offer. There is a lot more than that. The Nokia N82 also boasts excellent navigation and internet connectivity options too.
Firstly, the camera. The Nokia N82 has is equipped with a 5.0 megapixel camera, that has a Carl Zeiss lens and a Xenon flash. Picture quality is of the highest order. The phone has a lens cover on the back, which when flicked open activates the camera. The camera opening speed is very fast, much quicker than many camera phones to date. Once active, the screen acts as a full view finder, and there is a list of options down the right hand side of the screen. You can navigate through these simply enough with the cursor D-Pad. The first of these options is Scene Modes. Through this you can choose the settings required, for macro, portrait, landscape, sports, night (used without flash) and night portrait (used with flash). There is also an option for you to create your own user defined settings, to access quickly and easily. Other options allow you to control the sequence mode, colour tone, white balance and exposure. There is also a self timer option.
There is a quick access key on the front of the phone, which when pressed takes you to the last picture taken. Through this you can choose different albums to browse through or look through a slide show of pictures available in the gallery. Flick the D-Pad to the right or left and you can quickly browse through other options such as music, videos, games, maps, internet bookmarks and contacts. The order of the tiles can be changed to reflect your own personal requirements. Browsing through captured images is faster than anything I have experienced on previous S60 phones. You can also automatically browse pictures in landscape mode by tilting the handset onto its side, due to the built in motion sensor. This also works well for example when using the web browser, turn the phone onto its side and instantly view websites in landscape mode.
The Nokia N82 is loaded with connectivity options. It supports WiFi, and uses the simple Nokia navigation wizard to establish connection. From the main standby screen, simply browse for an available WiFi connection, and once located, select start browsing. Simple, quick and effective. As well as WiFi the Nokia N82 has Bluetooth 2.0, supports 3G and HSDPA.
The Nokia N82 has a 3.5mm jack point, which means you can use your own personal choice of headphones when listening to music. The N82 supports Micro SD cards so you can add additional memory to store a whole host of your favourite tracks and videos. There is also support for TV OUT, which simply means you can plug your N82 to the TV and view the screen of the phone on the TV. The cable for this is provided in the sales box. Personally I find it simple and straight forward to use the TV OUT cable with a scart adaptor, similar to that which is used on Playstation consoles. You can then plug the N82 into a free scart socket on the TV.
One of the new options to appear on the active standby screen is the search option. Select this and it opens a whole list of searchable categories on the devise. You can search the internet, or search through content on the device. You can look through music, contacts, calendar, messages, email messages, bookmarks, images applications notes and landmarks from the Maps application. Simply highlight the category you want to search through and press right on the D-Pad to move through to the next screen. It all works smoothly and is very easy to use. The addition of the search option to the standby screen does start to make the screen look very busy, and unfortunately the NSeries handsets do not have the excellent ESeries option of active standby plugins. The plugins on ESeries phones allow you to choose which applications you have showing on the main standby screen and works very well. I wait for the day NSeries will include this excellent feature too.
The Nokia N82 is a well balanced phone and very easy to navigate, due to the excellent S60 platform. The keypad on the phone is reminiscent of the W880i, but the keys are spaced out wider apart, so are not as difficult to operate as it may seem. It is certainly more comfortable than that found on the N73. It is hard to find fault in the N82. Of course, we may well find a few niggles over the coming weeks but initial impressions are positive. The over-riding impression of the Nokia N82 is how simple it is to use. Whilst there are a host of features available, everything is simple to use and logically laid out.
The N82 is destined to be the next success story in the Nokia NSeries range, so come back on Monday when we’ll have a more detailed look at photos and video taken by the N82 as well as news of more exciting Nokia mobile phones - including the successor to the beautiful 8800.
Some screenshots taken from the phone (Click on the image to see full size):
The Main menu view:
Search Screen:
Standby screen:
Image gallery:
Last picture shortcut menu:
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[Source: The UK Mobile Phone Blog]
