Quite a few smart phones are in demand in a year and, even more so since the release of the two and even fewer can boast slightly reduced for all lifetime cost. He received a second life in the black case, and even now, when released many new smartphones, remains quite popular.
Today, we introduce direct heir Nokia N73, which obtained the best quality of the entire series of multimedia Bugs Finnish Company: 5 Mp cameras with Xenon outbreak and Auto, support for N-Gage, Wi-Fi, GPS.

Design

Users accustomed to the feeling of metal and coated with the plasticity of Soft Touch, block Nokia N82 can seem cheap or even substandard. There is no velvety surface or metal inserts. The front panel outwardly resembles perfectly Amp’s metal, but other tactile sensations. Not texture and pleasant felt cold metal does not feel the strength of the design. Further, the perimeter of the front there is a gap in 0,5-1 mm, especially notable at the top of the shell.

However, the Corps did not scripts not think hlipkim, no loose or poorly attached details. Battery compartment lid sits firmly in place. The above-mentioned gap absolutely no effect on the overall strength of the design.
Keyboard panel implemented in the overall style of “liquid metal”. Glossy surface has a property to collect fingerprints: they arrive in the dirty divorce between numerical buttons. For the rest of the front footprint almost not visible.
Average consists of a durable and high-quality plastic. Back to the plastic part of the shell mounted decorated with a characteristic pattern of lines. Figure not engraved, and there was no touch. Coverage looks strong and nesklonnym abrasion. The same can be said with certainty about the secondary part.
Giving a prediction about the mirrored front panel while difficult, Nokia applies for the first time such a performance hull. Something similar we saw in BenQ-Siemens E71, where the body has been fairly resistant to deterioration, and scratches.
Original front panel design innovation is not restricted. Both multimedia dynamics set on the right end of perception for the best video and games also provided an unusual design joystick. In fact, this is an ordinary stick, a kind of covered lid. As it turned out, the solution requires a little time to adjust, but, in general, it is convenient. Erroneous or accidental clicks is not the case, the selection and confirmation of Action coincide with the wishes of the user.
It resembles Sony Ericsson W880i, but, subjectively, it’s convenient. Buttons Sydney softly and clearly. Even with the long-SMS correspondence fingers never tire of pressing the thin surface. The disadvantages include inadequate labeling numeric keypad: inscriptions on the keys bright afternoon almost merged with mirror-like shell. We have to match angle, hold the apparatus closer to the eyes. In the dark backlight fixes the situation.
Between Right soft keys “and” X “buttons installed multimedia button menu. Surprisingly, but even if accidentally click negligent enough to get past the multimedia buttons produced extremely rare. On the verge of a top button is the inclusion, on the right - the volume keys, camera and call the gallery. Pro difficult for them to say something special.
Actually, with the management of the Nokia N82 is OK. Keys are convenient, comfortable to use them.
Engineers have provided 3.5 mm headphone socket, hot replacement memory slot for 2 mm ZU and microUSB port. This is a solid set of interfaces for a modern masthead smartphone. Fixing to strap also available. It obviously is intended to keychain or strap on the wrist.The display shows excellent picture, which looks perfectly, even with wide angles of view. Color rendition, brightness, the behaviour in the sun, and other parameters are at the excellent level. Perhaps not the best display quality on the market, but it is not enough only in very rare cases: and photos, and games, and videos are fine.
Voice earpiece wonderfully fulfilling its responsibilities. Voice of living and the natural interlocutor. Sound loud, high-quality, and crepitating without serious distortions. With special desire stereo system can be a source of background music in a small room, and even allow seeing a movie.

Menu

Functionality producers realized without major trade-offs: it is the maximum today. Even the quality of the player is higher than in other decisions station.
Hardware platform built on TI OMAP 2420 332 MHz ARM kernel with the 11, there is a hardware accelerator 3D graphics and 128 MB of RAM. The test results will reflect this in the figures. Productivity - one of the best to date. Test results are almost the same as Nokia N95, which is not surprising, since both smartphone use the same chip. The user is available to about 100 MB of memory on the phone. In addition, the kit comes in 2 GB memory card.
Program smartphone line with the latest models of Nokia smartphones: Symbian OS v9.2, S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1. The basic functions of the platform can be found in the review of Nokia 6290. Now look at the specific features of this device.

I am working very quickly. Smartphone not intended when starting standard applications, at the entrance to the submenu. Bigger applications and games to run a slight delay, but it is not over and the second. Flipped photos in the gallery, the change of orientation of the screen, working with video, browsing, and other operations that require computing power, are now working without delay. Even the masthead Nokia N95, subjectively, works slowly.
Nevertheless, with intensive testing capabilities gadget he locked a few times. Well, all defects will be corrected in the new version of firmware.
Another interesting point - full use of the accelerometer. In standby mode, it has left, but in the central menu, submenus, in the programs (even those in which it does not make sense, for instance, for writing messages) changing screen orientation, along with turning the phone. Perhaps the N95 and other smart phones with the accelerometer will get the opportunity after the firmware update, but at the moment fully accelerometer is used only in the N82.
User’s demonstration version is available N-Gage and two games. In Nokia N81 user receives 3 games, but the rest of the same features and functions, so will not repeat. Note that there were no additional gaming keys, and you can play only in portrait mode when not in the game menu option provides for a special. The keyboard and joystick N82 not a perfectly friendly games.
Multimedia menu also moved unchanged from Nokia N81. This is still 7 points: Music, Videos, Gallery, Games, Contacts, Internet, and Maps. Details about it can be read in the review.
Player something very special is not allocated. He is the same as in the N95 that is the quality of sound like an absolute majority of users. By the standard 3.5 mm connector can be attached as tablets, and closed headphones with high resistance. In both cases, the volume and sound quality will be at an acceptable level.
Dedicated buttons player no, it’s not a music device. Hands free kit rather poor quality, it is better to just buy good headphones.
To work with GPS standard Nokia Maps. There is support for A-GPS, which theoretically allows locating even in the room for 10 seconds. In practice, the program asked to wait 8-9 minutes, and then almost immediately announced the task. It turns out that managed to catch a few satellites directly out of the room. According to generally good results, even given the error results in 5-10 meters.
The open area cold start was 5 minutes. If you are near a building, the satellite caught a little longer. Overall, the quality of the GPS we liked even more than the Nokia N95.
The GPS antenna rationally installed at the top of the shell. This favorable effect on the quality and speed of the signal, as in the car or in the hands of the holder of the antenna will not be anything covered.
Deep in the menu “hidden” Home Media Program, which provides support UPnP. Her we saw in the masthead smartphone Nseries (N95, N93), but in this case, a new version with enhanced functionality.
Opening hours on battery power is at a level N95 and N81, it is 2-3 days, depending on the intensity of use of functions and, most importantly, xenon flash. In general, if the 4-5 hours a day listening to the player, send a couple of messages, and calls to perform 4-5, we can expect two days of stable work. For compact All-in-one solution it is a good indicator.

Camera

The cell is placed in a metal module together with the outbreak of Xenon and active shutter. Optics developed with the assistance of Carl Zeiss. Results of the camera very close to a low-cost camera. In most cases, photographs and even produced good Excellence. If adjust ISO, and other settings, you can make pictures with the flash even close. Most are shooting automatically configure parameters for best results. For example, in sport mode is the maximum and minimum sensitivity excerpt. The result can be with some success, even muddy landscape of a moving train window. Shumov and color virtually no mistakes. The regime is not required of white separately adjust even when shooting indoors. Most automatics cope even with the difficult combined coverage.
The minimum distance to the object can not be less than 10 cm - the camera simply will not be able to focus. At sites of regular shape, there barrel distortion. The edges of objects a little blurred, as a result of decreasing the sharpness of detail in the photograph.
Even with the drawbacks, Nokia N82 camera is one of the best on the market. It shows better results than the Nokia N95 and is a par with Sony Ericsson K850i. I want to add that the skeptical feedback on the quality of camera phones in the near future will be, at a minimum, inappropriate.

Conclusions

Overall, the impression from Nokia N82 only positive. The phone minimum number of shortcomings, the maximum number of functions, it works almost perfectly. Over EUR450 to producer requests for the gadget, the user receives a complete solution with maximum functionality to date and one of the best cameras on the market.
Speaking on the shortcomings, all of them are subjective. Impressions from the shell design, implementation keyboard and joystick for each individual user.