GPS

Another similarity that the N82 has with the N95 is that it has a built in GPS. Now the built in GPS works hand in hand with Nokia Maps which is essentially a free download (in this case it's already preloaded into the N82).  It work fine and is quite accurate though the major issue I had with the GPS was its slow initial satellite lock. Not to say that it is always slow but the average time for the initial satellite lock was between 2 to 3 minutes sometimes longer when you're like say in a moving vehicle. However, once your position is locked on, things go pretty smoothly from there. You might be tempted to get third party GPS software to use with the N82 but I'd recommend that you stick with Nokia Maps as it is really good and easy to use. Best of all it's free, though you do have to pay extra for the voice guidance navigation.

Multimedia

Now although the N82 does not come with dedicated Media keys, it does pretty well for a Music/Video player. The D-pad of the N82 is more than sufficient for navigating all your music playing needs. Best of all, the N82 comes with a 3.5mm jack which rocks as you can plug in whatever l33t headphones you have, and not just stick to the standard Nokia ones. Sound wise, the N82 does ok when not plugged to any speakers. Its sound quality is pretty crisp and if you're a little hard in hearing you don't have to worry as the built in speaker are loud enough to partially wake the dead.

As for video playing, like all Nokia phones, the N82 comes with Real Player and watching videos on the 2.4" LCD screen was pretty neat. Picture quality on the screen was really clear (whenever it wasn't grimy) and although it doesn't come with a huge memory bank, at least you have the option of adding in microSD card to the phone.

Connectivity

As I mentioned before, the N82 is in all respect similar to the N95, and this includes its connectivity options. With support for HSDPA and 3G, the phone is excellent for web browsing especially when paired with the Nokia web browser. And if you do splurge on Bluetooth stereo headphones, the N82 also comes with Bluetooth A2DP support.

Conlcusion

The Nokia N82 is a great phone and comes as close to a perfect phone to me. With GPS, a great camera and a host of connectivity options, it's pretty hard to not like this phone. Even its battery life is pretty good lasting a good 3 days of normal use (this includes mucking around with the GPS and camera). At around RM2,499 it only comes off as slightly pricey but seriously the camera functions and GPS more or less makes up for that. Now if only Nokia can come up with a brush metal version of it.

Name: foo

Comment: Be sure t o get the latest firmware from Nokia website. It is actually a fixed bug for the Phone. Overall, i have bought a few software and i need to feedback to the software designer for the bugs encounter and got it fixed (over a period of 3 month of constant send error log to the developer to get it fixed). It all point back to the firmware. Besure to get the latest firmware before buying any software for this symbian OS. P.S.: I bought it for the camera functions and the large Micro SD memory card supportable to store the Video recording in DVD format.

Rated Article: Posted: 2008-08-31 18:54:52

Name: Sandra	Comment: How much is it now? For original set...
Rated Article: Posted: 2008-07-18 23:47:37

Name: Kok Kin	Comment: umm, hi, i have an enquire, and i hope this gets answers, is the maps application free?? if not, wat must we do to have it>?
Rated Article: Posted: 2008-04-27 13:53:45

Name: Darcy	Comment: I own a N95 8GB for 2 weeks now and actually thinking of exchanging it for a N82. Reason being I don't like slider after using it for a while. Any thoughts?
Rated Article: Posted: 2008-02-08 18:27:15

Name: Sentuldailo

Comment: Well, I bought this N82 since early of January. Seriously, N82 is a great phone for its great features for over all. GPS, Wifi, 5MP camera wif Xenon flash. This phone is running quite smooth until now that might due to its RAM is quite big enough. Photos' quality is great. (for a phone camera la) For the key pad, eventhought is small, but for me(hand quite big also) also found that no problem. Wrong key in can be said havent happen yet. But, I'm still demanding for something to this phone, -no pencil button for this phone which can make it easy to mark, unmark or copy and paste -no editing otpion when using web browser(cannot paste in or copy words into or from the browser) -cannot turn of the shuttle snap sound when take picture -no Flash support for wed browser -recently number of software havent can be install because not in list yet -Battery life: for me, not enough, i can say that i charge my phone every day. Main used for Wifi for online and take pictures. WOndering izit possible to buy a longer battery life battery for this phone. N82 is great!!

Rated Article: Posted: 2008-02-02 02:35:09

Name: Jason	Comment: Still not comparable to iPhone's internet mobility that comes with a cheaper price tag when it comes in. Please let it come in SOON!!! Internet > Picture Blek~
Rated Article: Posted: 2008-02-02 01:45:47

Name: rouin	Comment: the picture quality is not so good
Rated Article: Posted: 2008-01-31 18:24:57

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