The Nokia N82 gets formally announced

[slitchfield]

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.

Read on in the full article.

[hargs48]

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/20...fter-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.

[malerocks]

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.

[predicaments]

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.

[dougalzene]

I wonder if the GPS is the same spec as the new N95,
and what's the max microSD card that it will support.

[ajck]

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.

[Hardeep1singh]

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.

[Rafe]

Originally Posted by dougalzene

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).

Originally Posted by ajck

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.

Originally Posted by Hardeep1singh

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.

[Steve_R]

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.

[hargs48]

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?