Nokia N82 Review
A good alt to the N95, the N81 has very nearly the same
features, but at a lower price. It's a classic style with GPS
navigation, an outstanding 5 megapixel camera, media player,
wireless LAN, a 2 Gbyte memory card
The Nokia N95 has been Nokia's best-selling smartphone of 2007,
and with sales remaining strong and with no clear competitor
from the other manufacturers, the N95 will probably continue to
sell well into 2008. The role of the N82 then, is not to push
the boundaries of technology any further, rather it's to offer
essentially the same features as the N95, but in a different
package that will broaden its appeal.
Probably the most significant difference is the price: the N82
should retail for around £150 less than the N95. That's a big
difference and presumably reflects the fact that this is
repackaged technology. The screen on the N82 is slightly
smaller, but the phone itself is slightly narrower and slimmer
too. The weight is slightly less, but not enough to make any
real difference. We prefer the keypad of the N95 - the N82 has
fiddly little buttons - but with fewer "extra" buttons, the N82
arguably has a simpler user interface. For this reason, we are
hoping that the N82 will be less buggy than initial versions of
the N95, although we've yet to see a Series 60 phone that didn't
have some bugs. One further difference is that the N82 ships
with a 2 Gbyte memory card, whereas the N95 comes with a 4 or 8
Gbyte card.
Although they look quite different, the specifications of the
N82 and N95 are so nearly identical, that we'll refer you to our
in-depth review of the Nokia N95 to learn more. The detailed
specification is listed below. Suffice to say that you can't
really get more from a phone than you can from the N82: possibly
the best camera in a mobile phone (5 megapixels with autofocus
and xenon flash), GPS navigation, a superb screen, high-speed
3G, WLAN, a huge memory, etc
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