
Firstly, the camera. The Nokia N82 has is equipped with a 5.0 megapixel camera, that has a Carl Zeiss lens and a Xenon flash. Picture quality is of the highest order. The phone has a lens cover on the back, which when flicked open activates the camera. The camera opening speed is very fast, much quicker than many camera phones to date. Once active, the screen acts as a full view finder, and there is a list of options down the right hand side of the screen. You can navigate through these simply enough with the cursor D-Pad. The first of these options is Scene Modes. Through this you can choose the settings required, for macro, portrait, landscape, sports, night (used without flash) and night portrait (used with flash). There is also an option for you to create your own user defined settings, to access quickly and easily. Other options allow you to control the sequence mode, colour tone, white balance and exposure. There is also a self timer option.
The camera has auto focus, and the quality of pictures is very good. Once a picture has been taken, a quick press of the shutter key takes you back to the main screen ready for another shot. The speed is impressive. Once a picture has been taken, you can upload it to any number of your favourite online services, including VOX and Flickr.
There is a quick access key on the front of the phone, which when pressed takes you to the last picture taken. Through this you can choose different albums to browse through or look through a slide show of pictures available in the gallery. Flick the D-Pad to the right or left and you can quickly browse through other options such as music, videos, games, maps, internet bookmarks and contacts. The order of the tiles can be changed to reflect your own personal requirements. Browsing through captured images is faster than anything I have experienced on previous S60 phones. You can also automatically browse pictures in landscape mode by tilting the handset onto its side, due to the built in motion sensor. This also works well for example when using the web browser, turn the phone onto its side and instantly view websites in landscape mode.
Away from the camera, there are a host of features ready to keep the gadget freaks happy. Navigation wise the phone has an internal GPS receiver and supports A-GPS, and comes with Nokia Maps installed. Testing the phone, lock on to location in Maps took less than 10 seconds. Very quick, and much quicker than experienced with the N95. The bright, clear QVGA TFT screen supporting up to 16million colours makes navigation very clear and very easy to follow.
The Nokia N82 is loaded with connectivity options. It supports WiFi, and uses the simple Nokia navigation wizard to establish connection. From the main standby screen, simply browse for an available WiFi connection, and once located, select start browsing. Simple, quick and effective. As well as WiFi the Nokia N82 has Bluetooth 2.0, supports 3G and HSDPA.
The Nokia N82 has a 3.5mm jack point, which means you can use your own personal choice of headphones when listening to music. The N82 supports Micro SD cards so you can add additional memory to store a whole host of your favourite tracks and videos. There is also support for TV OUT, which simply means you can plug your N82 to the TV and view the screen of the phone on the TV. The cable for this is provided in the sales box. Personally I find it simple and straight forward to use the TV OUT cable with a scart adaptor, similar to that which is used on Playstation consoles. You can then plug the N82 into a free scart socket on the TV.
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