Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 13th Jan 2008 08:06 UTC
Hi-Mobile.net sent us over one of the highest-end phones ever released, the Nokia N82. A rich smartphone, running the latest version of Symbian OS and S60 3.1 is sure to raise some eyebrowses as the model resembles in feature-set (of its time) and overall looks of the very successful 6680 that was first released in early 2005. In fact, the more I look at this model, the more I get the feeling that a product manager walked in at an engineering meeting one Monday morning and proclaimed: "Gentlemen, we need to resurrect the 6680".
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I have an N95 8GB which basically runs the same base OS as these devices. I'd personally take an S60 v3 device any day over the flashy but useless iPhone. I don't know what kind of crack this guy is smoking but from what I've been reading, a lot of people outside the Apple crack addict camp aren't so crazy about touch screens UI's - yes, there are people who like it but it's not the majority of users by far. I personally HATE having to put my fingers all the time on the same surface that I'm trying to read from. Not the most pleasurable experience reading my mail after I've left all my fingerprints on top of it.
As far as a music player, I think it's great. I don't need any crazy features - it reads all my MP3's just fine, the music library is similar to the first gen iPods - very basic which I like a lot. It has very good sound quality, it has equalizer and with the built-in media keys (or the media keys on the headphones remote), it is very easy to use. The only gripe I had was that the ear buds that came with it aren't that great but the headphones remote has a normal jack so you can plug in your own earbuds (which I have done).
Oh, and the S60 platform has a very healthy software ecosystem available... on the iPhone you can't even install your own software - and they call it a smart phone... give me a f***n break... The thing doesn't even have 3G support, camera sucks balls (did I mention the N95 has a **5** MP camera w/ Carl Zeiss optics), no GPS... It's a complete joke! Yes, I know they will be supposedly fixing a lot of the things I mentioned in the next gen iPhone but I'm sure Nokia and the Windows Mobile camp will have yet again better devices available by then...
Windows Mobile 7 looks like will be awesome and for the touchscreen freaks, S60 Touch UI is well on it's way (hopefully this year). And for the keyboard fans like me, Nokia just patented a dual-slider phone design that has a full QWERTY as well as an old-school keypads.
"5 years ahead" of other phones. GIVE... ME... A... DAMN... BREAK!!!!