Nokia N82 Review by erazer007

Nokia N82 review

Here are my impressions on the Nokia N82.

Advantages
5 Megapixel Camera
Xenon Flash
Very Good Performance
Good Screen

Disadvantages
Average Battery Lie
Bad Speakers
Unusual Keypad


Design and Materials Used

The N82 is a candy bar. The phones thickness varies. It is thicker towards the top where the camera is placed. The camera is located on
the back of the device. The speakers are located on the right side of the
device. The charger connector, micro-USB port and Memory Card slot are on the
left side of the device. The phone is mostly made of plastic which has a glossy
effect. On the front the plastic has been painted in silver and on the back it
is in a Titanium color and has some patterns on it too..The phone feels good in
hand thanks to the glossy back area. There are no creaks and hence it very well
built. The front part catches fingerprints easily due to the silver surface.


Keys

The keys on the device aren’t something which I liked much. The keypad is of an unusual design. The keys of the keypad are very small and
have spaces in between them. This makes it difficult to type and often results
in typing errors. These keys feel plastic too.The soft keys and D-Pad too are average. The soft keys are at the same
height as the rest of the surface and there is no separation between them. This
again causes mistakes. The D-Pad is also very clumsy. You might accidently
click the centre of the D-Pad instead of any direction. The keys on the right side
of the device are quite god. These include the volume rocker key, the gallery
button and the camera key. The power button is located on the top of the
device. People with large fingers might find it difficult to use the keys. But
you might get used to it. However the defects of the keys seem to have been
fixed in the new N82 black version released by Nokia which has better keys,
improved D-Pad etc.


Call Quality

The call quality is decent. There is however some hissing when making calls. Although this does not spoil the speech, it makes create a disturbance.
The loudspeaker is quite good too. But there is a slight disturbance. While the
call quality on the N82 isn’t anything like the ones found on the E-Series, its
good enough for the average mobile phone user.


Connectivity

The N82 covers every range of connectivity features available in the market right now. From Wi-Fi to HSDPA. All the options makes
web browsing and sending of files very easy. Transfer through Bluetooth is fast
as it has Bluetooth 2.0. Surfing the net is as easy as a walk in the park due
to GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA, Wi-Fi. It also supports A2DP for listening to songs over
Bluetooth.


Messaging

Messaging isn’t quite easy due to the small keys of the keypad. You might make some mistakes during the typing of the message. But you
might get used t it in a while.


Camera

The N82 is equipped with a 5 Megapixel camera that has autofocus, Xenon flash and Carl Zeiss optics. There is also red-eye reduction.
The camera lens produces images of very great quality and high detail. The presence of the Xenon flash makes taking photos in the dark very easy. The flash is powerful enough to fill a room without lights full with light. The camera interface is very user friendly at the same time being highly detailed. The camera lens is protected by a lens cover. Sliding the lens cover automatically starts the camera application too and closing it closes the applications. You can also start it by going through the menu but then you have to open the lens cover again. So I prefer the former method. The lens cover protects the lens from dust and scratches. The phone records videos at a maximum resolution of VGA at 30 fps. There is also a secondary CIF camera on the front for video calls.


Music

The sound quality on the device is pretty bad due to the crappy speakers which distort at high volumes. However the sound quality is brilliant using headphones and I expect it to be better with custom headphones. The Music Player is the same as in the N95, N95 8GB, N81 8GB and N81. It offers a wide range of settings including Stereo Widening, Loudness, speaker balance e and equalizer. There are visualizations too.


Video

Video playback on the device is excellent. Thanks to the brilliant screen. The default media player is Real Player. Videos have to be encoded into the 3gp or mp4 formats to be played back on the device. But you can get 3^rd party software that allows you t play various other formats also.


Screen

The screen used on the device is absolutely brilliant. The pictures and videos are crisp. However its only 2.4” size which is quite small
considering the standards of today but it still is an excellent display. The N82 provides Automatic Screen Rotation (ASR) thanks to the built in accelerometer. This enables you to change the display orientation from Vertical to Horizontal and vice versa. The screen is protected by the plastic casing and also prevents dust from collecting on the screen.


Memory and Performance

The device has a built in memory of 100MB which can be expanded using micro-SD cards of up to 8GB.Although even 16GB might work. A 2GB memory card is included in the package. The memory cards are inserted and taken out using a hot-swap memory card slot. The device has 128MB of RAM of which about 90MB is available to the user. The presence of much RAM makes the performance too good. Multi-Tasking is possible without any delays and the phone responds to your actions very quickly.


User Interface

The user interface is one of the best available in the markets as it runs on S60 which is known to provide a lot of options to its
users. Everything about the interface is customizable.


Battery Life

The battery life isn’t sufficient as in the case of the recent N-Series phones.The phone has a 1050mAH battery


Conclusion

The device is absolutely brilliant in multimedia features and camera. Even though there are some small defects such as bad battery life, crappy speakers and unusual keypad, the phone is excellent and provides everything what a Tech-geek could want. Well Done Nokia!

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