Nokia N82 Review

Messaging:

The messaging menu is just what you will find in any other S60 smartphone. Inbox is a shared box for the received text and multimedia messages as well as for messages received via Bluetooth. By pressing the New Message button you can start writing a text/multimedia or e-mail message. The T9 system can help you input text faster. It works very easy which is typical of Nokia phones.

The email is set by means of a Wizard which tries to save you some writing by automatically ‘completing’ part of the settings. If you know the settings to configure your e-mail, this will take one to two minutes and then you will be able to use the service on your phone. Still, we would have liked to see in the first place wizard that tries to automatically set the email (If popular service like AIM, Yahoo, Gmail, etc is used),as in the Windows Mobile smartphones.

You can preset your phone to download headers only and then a whole message when you want to view it, or download up to a user preset size limit or directly download whole letters together with the files attached. We made the settings using the first method and downloaded separate messages via WiFi or using the UMTS operator’s net.


Connectivity:

Just as the Nokia N95, the N82 cannot really be considered a global phone due to its crippled 3G support. Although the quad-band GSM/EDGE receiver allows it to be used worldwide, the 3G UMTS/HSDPA will be limited only to regions with 2100 MHz coverage (Europe and Asia).

There are three methods for local connectivity: Bluetooth (v2.0 with EDR), WiFi and USB. Bluetooth will most commonly be used for connecting to other mobile devices or phone accessories; WiFi is most convenient for connecting to local wireless networks and using them as a source of Internet; while the USB is the preferable connection to a computer. Once the microUSB cable is attached, the phone asks you to select one of four connection methods:

1. PC Suite used for synchronizing the Contacts, Calendar entries (To-Do) and the Notes with most popular systems: Outlook (Express), Lotus Organizer, Lotus Notes, Vista Contacts.

2. Data transfer opens the memory card (if present) as mass storage device, for easy and fast transfer of files.

3. Image print is used with compatible printers, to print images without a computer being necessary.

4. Media player is used for more comfortable transfer of multimedia files to and from the phone.

Internet:

As other S60 phones, loading and viewing a standard HTML web site is a pleasant and easy job. The phone has no problem rendering all pages and reading phoneArena's news was a pleasure as the text fields are shrunk to fit the width of the display. Scrolling left-to-right and top-to-bottom is done with the phone's d-pad, and a mini-map indicates, which part of the page you are looking at. The pages loaded pretty fast and as a whole, we had a great experience with the browser. Another great idea is the history: when you use 'back' to see pages you've seen earlier, you see the pages as thumbnails, instead of just as names. The browser can load RSS feeds for even faster access to information.