Hi everyone,

Just thought I would make a quick post regarding the N82 for anyone who is considering getting one as their next mobile device - I see that cool mobile has it for a cool $899NZ.

Basically its an N95 in the candy bar form factor with a few things added and a few things missing, whether its your cup of tea really depends on how much the form factor suits you and how much the additions and subtractions matter to you personally.

It has the following additions:

- Xenon flash
- Doubled RAM (although effectively more than that when you look at free RAM after boot)
- Auto-rotate feature (can be added to N95, may yet be added to N95 via firmware upgrade)

It loses:
- Screen Size
- IR port (not a biggie for most, but for some such as myself IR is relatively important)
- Multimedia keys


For me I would say that overall the N95 is still my favorite device, but its a much closer thing that I would have thought before trying the N82. The xenon flash really does make such a huge difference to the photography side of the device. At the Nokiaworld party (low light conditions) the N82 was brilliant, took photos no problem, whereas the N95 was virtually unusable. I would say that if low light photography is something important to you then this alone is probably enough to swing it the was of the N82.

If you're looking at the keys and wondering how it is to type text on those Sony Ericson styled midgets I can reassure you - its fine. At least as good as on the N95 and maybe a little better in fact. Doesn't change the fact that they look ugly to me but hey, at least they work well.

Build quality is actually really quite good, although the plastic construction makes the phone feel quite plasticky and cheap.

Current firmware iteration is somewhat buggy, as we have come to expect from Nokia for a first-release firmware.