The N82 'keys' are a stupid design mistake, when it could have had a decent 'normal' keypad.
They are noticably less convenient and easy to use, but not disastrously so. I can live with it. The four-way selector and central button (what to call them?) are also badly designed, and the easiest key to press is the multi-media 'gallery-thingy' key, which stands proud of everything else. Nokia must be 'proud' I don't think anyone else will be!
Generally I'm not a big phone user, but I wanted a camera in my pocket at all times. So I figured this as a camera with a phone attached! That is why I bought it.
The GPS is good enough to have got me un-lost in Chennai a couple of times. The street detail is pretty good. I've never tried it for talking navigational directions, I think the screen is probably too small for that, and it would need some sort of mount which I don't have.
The sound quality is good and clear. This is very important to me as my hearing is neither. Haven't tried it for music, as yet, don't really have a demand for that; have a Cowon for those occasional train/plain trips. My British-Bird-Song ring tone sounds good!
The camera is good, and the video surprising good. (I can't get used to having to hold the camera upright for video: is there any software that can flip a video, like flipping a photo?).
It is plastic: it would be a lot nice if it were metal. Mrs T got a 6500, and it feels so good in the hand compared to plastic. Survived me dropping it concrete quite well, too!
I have never before had other than a cheap, basic phone, no camera, nothing --- this is my first expensive phone. No, I'm not a heavy user, and yes, there are criticisms, but, on the whole I'm happy. Better be; I need it to last some years to justify the price!
The software that comes with it is crap, but that is probably the same as has come with the several generations of Nokia phone since I bought my last one some time back. I don't care about time-line blogs, or what ever its called --- I just want to be able to manage the phone; contacts, text messages and stuff. And it doesn't do it :(
There's some third party Oxygen software, but I haven't been able to make the agent run on the N82.
If I were buying again I'd take a longer look at the N95 --- but I'd probably still decide that it is too big and heavy for my pocket. |