Nokia N82 Black: A personal review

As you all know, it’s been about 2 weeks since I bought my Nokia N82 Black, with the 5MP Carl Zeiss lens camera and Xenon Flash. I previously wrote a detailed post about what made me choose the Nokia N82 over the Nokia E71.

I love the Nokia N82, but I was having QWERTY withdrawal symptoms, so I bought an Apple Bluetooth Wireless Keyboard to use with it. (Couldn’t find Nokia’s SU-8W Wireless Keyboard anywhere in Pakistan)

I absolutely love the combination! I take the Nokia N82 everywhere with me and have fun taking awesome photographs, and when I have to chat, I just take out the wireless BT keyboard and start chatting away. The Apple keyboard isnt too big, but isnt very small either, so it’s not possible to carry it around everywhere unless I have my bag with me. That’s when I miss my old Nokia E61i.

I can play tons of N-Gage & other java games easily. I hook up my N82 with the television through TV-Out and use the Wireless Bluetooth keyboard to sit back comfortably on the Sofa and have fun!

I recently had the Batman movie “The Dark Knight” in my phone, I was over at a friend’s gathering, and as they had not seen it, I hooked up my N82 to a 32″ TV to let them watch it. It was great fun and they totally loved it

Taking pictures has been pure bliss. The camera is just wonderful. I use ShoZu to upload all my pictures to Flickr as soon as I take them. My old E61i’s camera was simply not good enough to capture pictures worthy of printing.

One problem is the D-pad of the phone, now that my nails are longer, I’m having a tough time dealing with  it. Clicks by mistake are very common, but I’m willing to let go of this minor issue just because of so many new things I’m getting to do with the Nokia N82.

In short,

• PROS:
• Love the 5 megapixel Camera with Carl Zeiss lens,
• Love the Xenon flash for night pics,
• Love the GPS,
• Love the N-Gage games,
• Love the TV-out! (its like carrying a mini-DVD player, I carry about 3 movies in my phone at all times. Its fantastic to be easily able to attach the phone to any TV and watch them on huge displays.
• Love it that now I can use both landscape as well as portrait display modes.
• Love the Stereo FM Radio,
• Love the ability to use a full-keyboard! (All symbian S60 3rd Edition phones are able to pair with Bluetooth wireless keyboards)
• Love the S60 3rd Ed. FP1 Web browser. It is way better then what I had in my Nokia E61i.
• Battery life is okay for me. Not as fantastic as the Nokia E61i and Nokia E71, but it does alright. Gives me about 1 day if used lightly, and about 2 days standby time with the display brightness down a bit.

• CONS:
• The D-pad! It’s not as bad as some people tend to imagine when they first look at it, but ever since my nails grew longer, clicks by mistake became regular. With shorter nails, mistakes are only once in a while. (So girls should definitely try out the D-pad, as well as the keypad before buying one)
• Keypad is usable, but slightly uncomfortable. Creaks a bit while typing.
• Auto-rotate feature is a little too sensitive. (I’ve heard that the sensitivity has been fixed with the latest firmware update)