The Nokia N82 gets formally announced

Published by Rafe Blandford, Steve Litchfield at 10:04 UTC, November 14th 2007

The latest Nseries, the Nokia N82, has been formally announced. The N82 features a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and a Xenon flash, an assisted-GPS. The N82 boasts and impressive ray of connectivity options: quad-band GSM, WCDMA with HSDPA at 2100 MHz, WiFi and Bluetooth. The N82 is available immediately in key markets and sells for an approximate, pre-tax, unsubsidised price of 450 Euros (£315). Read on for more.

Key points about the phone:

• The N82 features a 5 mega pixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics. This is the same camera module as that found in the N95. Instead of an LED based flash the N82 has a Xenon based flash. This is more powerful and should give better picture in low light situations. The camera is also reportedly much faster to start and to capture pictures.
  
  Nokia describe it as the 'best cameraphone on the market' and a 'creditable alternative to stand alone cameras'. The camera also supports shooting video (at VGA resolution at up to 30 fps). There is an on device editor for both still images and video (video editing more basic than N95). Camera specifications are:
  
  
  • CMOS sensor, 5 megapixel (2592 x 1944), Carl Zeiss Tessar lens
  • F number/Aperture: F2.8
  • Focal length: 5.6 mm
  • Focus range 10cm - infinity
  • Macro focus distance: 10-50 cm
    
  
  
• Nokia highlight the sharing capabilities of the phone. The N82 will ship with Share Online pre-installed. This allows for one click upload to Flickr and other web services. There's also the usual XpressPrint support which allows you to print photos via Bluetooth (to supported printers) or via USB (PictBridge compatible printers). You can also order prints online directly from your phone.
  
  
• There's an on board accelerometer to enable automatic rotation of the user interface. When you turn the phone from portrait to landscape orientation the UI will automatically change (user configurable). This is also used to automatically rotate photos to the correct orientation when you capture them.
  
  
• The screen is a 2.4 inch QVGA screen with support for 16 million colours. (This is smaller than the N95 (2.6 inches) and the N95 8GB (2.8 inches), but the phone is smaller overall than both of these devices.
  
  
• The phone weighs in at 114g and has dimensions of 112 x 50.2 x 17.3 mm (90cc in volume). This phone is similar in size and shape to the Nokia N73 (110 x 49 x 19 mm).
  
  
• The phone includes a built in GPS (with support for assisted-GPS to give fast satellite / location lock on times). Nokia Maps is pre-installed and the phone comes with a free trial of the voice guidance portion of Nokia Maps.
  
  
• The phone has a 3.55mm audio jack for listening to music. This is also used for the TV-Out function. The phone ships with a wired headset (HS-43). There are integrated stereo speakers, along with an FM radio, support for both Windows Media DRM  and OMA DRM 1.0/2.0 specifications
  
  
• There is 100MB of dynamic internal memory and a microSD (SDHC is supported) card slot for memory expansions. A 2GB microSD card card is included in the sales package (this may vary by market).
  
  
• The phone's connectivity options include quad-band GSM, WCDMA at 2100 MHz (European / Asian bands), and WiFi (802.11 b/g) inlcuding support for UPnP connectivity.
  
  
• The usual Bluetooth support is on board including support for the AVRCP and A2DP profiles. There is no IrDA port.
  
  
• PC connectivity is provided by a micro USB port. The phone supports USB Mass Storage and Windows Media Transfer protocol.
  
  
• The phone uses the Nokia BP-6MT with a capacity of 1050 mAh.
  
  
• The N82 is available immediately in key markets (Europe, Middle East and Asia). The unsubsidised prices in 450 Euros before tax (around £315). You can therefore expect a high street price of around £370-£400 initially (based on 17.5% tax).
  
  
• Update: See our N82 Information round up story for further details and reaction from around the web.
  

The full specifications are available here. Further images of the phone are available here on the Nokia website.

Press release extract: 

"The evolution of camera capabilities in mobile devices has been extremely fast over the past years. With the Nokia N82 we have reached such a superior level in image quality, speed and ease of use that not only does it outperform any other cameraphone on the market, but it's also a very credible alternative for single purpose digital still cameras," says Satu Ehrnrooth, head of Nokia Nseries Cameras Category, Multimedia, Nokia. "In addition to the high-end camera, the Nokia N82 also enables you to navigate and discover new places, enjoy your music, browse the web, play games, chat online and be part of the global web 2.0 community wherever you go.  Thanks to the wireless broadband connectivity, convergence and yet again increased performance, the Nokia N82 is all you need in your pocket!"

Steve says

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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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).

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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.

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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.

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