Interface

The N82 of course uses Nokia's S60 operating system, which is till today, my favourite phone interface/OS. I doubt I need to describe it for all of you as you're most likely to have played around with a Nokia S60 phone or you might already own one. However I would like to mention a few "add-ons" that the phone came with like the built in accelormeter which allowed you switch the N82 interface between landspace and portrait mode just by tilting the phone (sort of like the iPhone or iPod Touch). Also added was the Nokia N-gage application which bundled in two games on a trial period FIFA 2007 and Asphalt 3 Street Rules. Now unlike the N81, the N82 is really set up for games so don't expect to play FIFA 2007 on the N82 in landscape mode.

Camera

Now, what really makes the N82 a joy to use is its camera functions. The phone comes with a 5 megapixel camera and a Xeon flash which made it one of the better camera phones I've come across. The user interface, though I have heard some people complain about it, wasn't much of an issue for me. It has an extensive range of settings that includes manual white balance, ISO sensitivity, exposure compensation, sharpness and contrast settings, as well as various effects.

The Xeon flash is no pathetic LED light either as it managed to capture pictures quite nicely in pretty dark environments like a dark room and can even be set to either Auto, red-eye reduction, always on or always off, just like normal digital cameras. Of course even if you had a doped up flash on the phone, it wouldn't really mean anything if the picture quality was crap. The N82 fortunately, did not take crap quality pictures. Like the N95, the N82 takes pretty good pictures with colour tone being pretty vivid and even skin tone coming out great not yellowish or pasty. As you can see in the sample picture I took, the N82 does take great photos, and will be a great boon especially if you're into taking food pictures.