You will excuse me if the headline was a little dramatic - but there are some serious points to be made about this, the Nokia N82. I've been playing with one of the first boxed European versions and have been a bit dismayed at some of the style-over-function choices made by the N82's designers .

"Nokia's S60 smartphones, on average, are pretty good. By no means perfect, but pretty good. You really would have thought that after so many years and so many models that Nokia's designers would have enough experience that they didn't make major mistakes, and yet over and over again I see the Nseries brand coming up with designs that contain basic problems that any sane phone user would be able to point out in seconds" 

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