Has there ever been a hardware launch as drawn out as this? Following on from the photo leak from the Nokia PR site, there's now an official press release, reposted below. And watch out for Rafe's analysis and preview later today, plus there's a virtual event starting at midday GMT that anyone's welcome to join.
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Brilliant,the N73 successor finally lives!Go over here for some great pics of the N82 from some member who had the proto for a week... http://meandmyphones.blogspot.com/2007/11/nokia-n82-impressions-after-week.html
It's a really nice phone but 112mm x 50mm it's almost as bulky long as the excessively bulky iPhone (115mm), but without the screen size. Not the package for me, I will stick to sliders.
Seems to be like a good effort by Nokia to put *everything* into one device while maintaining a decent size and yet nothing slides / twists / turns.
Now someboby needs to start reviewing it and bring out whats good and whats bad.
If Nokia were putting *everything* into a package then that surely would include a large LCD.
And what is with the Nokia naming conventions? N70 and N73 are candybars, N80 is a slider.
Now N82 is a candybar and N95 a slider. I don't see the logic.
I've just bought an N95 8GB which is amazing but I don't really like the SLIDE, I've never been a huge slide fan. For the life of me I cannot understand the difference between this and the new N82 which looks much better in terms of ergonomics than the N95 8GB but with all the features?
Predicaments, the difference is in the packaging, where the slider offers a 2.8" display on a phone that is only 99mm long. The N82 offers 2.4" display on a 112mm long phone. The 13mm doesn't sound like much but depending on how you like to carry your phone it can make a difference. The 0.4 inch doesn't sound like much on screen size, but it makes a difference to the ergonomics you mention.
And with the slider closed the slider phone is nicer to use in landscape format. The slider also offers the music phone buttons when opened the other way.
I wonder if the GPS is the same spec as the new N95,
and what's the max microSD card that it will support.
I think the significance here is that we're getting a roughly N95 capable device in a smaller, cheaper package. This is good news, it's the way things need to go towards what I consider a dream phone - N95 type specs in a 6120 Classic sized package, with a full-front-face touchscreen. I bet such a device exists in the Nokia Labs 😉
Anyway, the review linked in the first comment above is well worth a read, though bearing in mind it's only one person's opinion of a prototype. I find it interesting that despite the hardware power of the N95 8GB, the N82 is faster. My 6120 Classic is also faster (in general use) than the N95 8GB but obviously a bit less capable.
I wonder how much processing power does this phone hold? Hope it has the newer 369mhz processor combined with 3d acceleration hardware, a confirmation on these two would make this a must buy for me.
dougalzene wrote:I wonder if the GPS is the same spec as the new N95,
and what's the max microSD card that it will support.
Yes the GPS appears to be the same. It has A-GPS out of the box though and hands on reports indicate an initial (cold start) lock on of 30 seconds or less/ It supports SDHC - so up to 32 GB in theory (I think 4GB officially).
ajck wrote:I think the significance here is that we're getting a roughly N95 capable device in a smaller, cheaper package. This is good news, it's the way things need to go towards what I consider a dream phone - N95 type specs in a 6120 Classic sized package, with a full-front-face touchscreen. I bet such a device exists in the Nokia Labs 😉
Agreed, its a nice price point at launch. Outside of the screen there's precious little different with the N95.
Hardeep1singh wrote:I wonder how much processing power does this phone hold? Hope it has the newer 369mhz processor combined with 3d acceleration hardware, a confirmation on these two would make this a must buy for me.
Its ARM 11 at 332 MHz and has Hardware graphics accelerator.
Overall it looks nice, and a 'maybe' replacement for my wonky slider, missing keypress N95, as I have had enough of it. However, I will reserve judgement until I have heard opinions on those keys. They look like the sort that has been doing the rounds on the Sony Ericsson phones, and they are awful to use.:icon13:
Forum Nokia has all the detail specs of the N82, http://www.forum.nokia.com/devices/N82
90mb free RAM,332MHz CPU with dedicated graphics chip,also both this and N81 has nor IR anymore,dunno if it matters though...
Please learn from the unanticipated success of the N95 in the US, and bring us a US-specific model, Nokia. With a faster and better camera than the N95-3, and out-of-box use of the accelerometer, this could be another good alternative to the iPhone for many saavy users.
It was just Last month that Nokia's flagship mobile computer released it's 3rd revision to the N95 (N95-3) which supported North Americas 3G (850mhz HSDPA and UMTS)
(review here mobiletechreview.com/phones/Nokia-N95-3.htm [add www])
I am trying to decide weather to go with Nokia's latest release the N82 or Sony Ericsson's K850i that included quad band GSM/UMTS/HSDPA from the time of it's release!
I prefer the N82 from the features but will I have to wait another 6 months for a US 3G version like the N95?
My next phone will take advantage of the 3G network that is now active here in the US.
What are Nokia's plans to include 850mhz 3G (and perhaps 1900mhz later) for North American customers?
AFAIK it doesn't say so anywhere on the official specs, but it seems that this will be N-Gage compatible, as there's an N-Gage icon on the phone's desktop in the official press photos.
Hopefully most or all new S60s from here on in will have N-Gage, that will get the userbase growing like anything.
I wonder when N-series phones will come with GPS that has SIRF3 built-in?!
It's about time, I reckon...
The N95 Forum Nokia page: http://www.forum.nokia.com/devices/N95 says:
"Memory Card: Micro SD
Max Memory Card Size: 4 GB"
which means that the phone can support Micro SDHC cards (up to a maximum of 4 GB officially, even though 8 GB ones are now available, with a theoretical maximum of 32 GB), whereas
the N82 Forum Nokia page: http://www.forum.nokia.com/devices/N82 says:
"Memory Card: Micro SD
Max Memory Card Size: 2 GB"
which suggests to me that the phone can only support Micro SD cards, and not the newer Micro SDHC cards.
Surely this can't be the case?
Also, the N95 and N95 8GB list 'Video Call' but the N82 does not, and the N95s list 'AAC-LC Audio Recording' whereas the N82 lists 'Audio Recorder AMR' in its place.
"which suggests to me that the phone can only support Micro SD cards, and not the newer Micro SDHC cards."
1. SDHC support can be added through a firmware upgrade, they did this with the N800 internet tablet for example.
2. The official tech spec pages (especially the consumer-oriented ones) often get things badly wrong anyway, often it seems like they've just cut-and-pasted the specs of a previous model. For example, the official 6110 page still claims it doesn't have A2DP support, but it does, and always has had (I tried it on the day of release!).
During the event nokia did confirm SDHC support in the microSD card slot.
Another thing: At this link: http://www.symbian-guru.com/welcome/2007/11/nokia-n82-is-of.html , one of the Product Managers says that the N82 doesn't have an N81-style naviwheel. Is that functionality likely to be added by a firmware update?
4GB is not an indicator of SDHC since it is the max size for usual SD cards.
Yup, for SD cards; most (if not all) 4GB microSD cards, however, are SDHC.
BTW, I don't think it wouldn't be SDHC-compliant. The N95, which is far older than the N82, has always been SDHC-compliant.
I dont think there's a S60v3 FP1 phone without SDHC support.
I'm confused. Is the naviwheel there or just prototype only.
Does anybody know where can find the tech specs of the N82 in pdf format,I checked the Nokia site and found nothing.Nokia always released a 2 page pdf file about a phone after its launched.
Fantastic post and review, this is aphone for the dedicated journalist.
A phone that offers the fastest shutter speed and return - up until now it has been a drag waiting for the phone to return to ready for the next picture capture but the N82 returns so much faster that you are ready for that next money making picture in milliseconds.
http://www.phoneslimited.co.uk/Nokia/N82.html
I can only see a few downsides to this new handset - the most obvious is the keypad arrangement. ala SE, Nokia have decided to put the lettering for each key just above it rather than on in, this throws up the problem of texting and using the phone in poor light conditions.
With the majority of Nokia phones the letters and numbers are illuminated on the buttons so you can see what you are doing in the dark.
If you are not a text guru then this could be a problem.
http://www.phoneslimited.co.uk/Nokia/N82.html
When will we see it on vodafone, if it as good as the reviews then it will be worth waiting for. http://www.phones2udirect.co.uk/details/All/822/All/Nokia_N82.html