The Nokia N82 gets official
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Nov 14th 2007 2:37AM
posted Nov 14th 2007 2:37AM
posted Nov 14th 2007 2:37AM
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My timer still has 3.5 hours on it...
Oh and also...
...I am so fecking excited about this phone! I'm eager to hear the price because THIS is my dream phone. I thought it was the N95, but Xenon flash and candybar style pole volt it way above the N95.
I'm retarded. They have the price RIGHT THERE in the article. I even read it.
And how the hell am I the ONLY person to have made any comments on this yet? Is there something wrong with the servers or even my computer just simply keeping me from seeing everyone else get as excited about this as I am? Or am I the only person who reads EngadgetMobile who is excited about this? (Even after three or four posts...)
Maybe because it'll be some time into 2008 before these are in Euro stores, let alone how long until they reach the Americas. At least if you take Nokia's history as any indication.
Wait for the N82 8GB edition some months down the road. *yawn*
Ok ok... I've got to wait anyway because I can't afford it so I guess in the same vain of your comment..
I might as well wait for the NA 3G version and for it to come down in price. (I'm not a big fan of the 8 GB of storage as I've got myself an iPod for my music and memory cards are plenty for me when it comes to photos and applications.)
I'm actually pretty intersted in the N82. But I have a first generation N95 right now. And knowing that Nokia will be releasing S60 devices with touchscreens in the future makes me want to wait.
if the N95 came out at $749, i'd think the US price of this thing would be $699 or $749, in any case, my N80ie (bought @$375 from amazon 6 months ago) and my canon sd800 ($250 from dell) don't even equal that price! heck, i can buy an $80 bluetooth GPS dongle for $75 and i'd still be under the price!
nice, but i'll wait. when this thing hits the $499 mark (like the n95s are looking at now) then i'll bite.
The lastest batch of Nokias seems redundant and the same to me. I guess sooner or later, all the high end nokias will be sporting a 5meg auto focus camera, 8gigs of memory (why anyone would need more than 8 gigs of memory in a phone is beyond me, lol,) initially asking for about $800.00. I have a bricked N80 and bought it for $800.00 on ebay. It's been bricked for over 9 months, lol. I should've have waited until the N95 8gig, lol.
I really want to get excited about Nokia's new phones, but why do they all have to be so darn THICK? I don't want a phone thicker than 15mm... ideally less than 12mm.
I gather it's thick due to the enhanced camera specs. Considering that they had to turn a "slider" into a "candybar" shaped device, there's less movable parts I guess.
It's that camera. Basically, a tradeoff between aperture (larger opening means more light), CCD sensor size (N82/N95 use 1/2.5", which is pretty standard for low-to-mid-range pocket cameras these days). Fortunately, they have resisted the temptation to just increase the number of megapixels since the N95, which, given the same sensor size, would actually degrade picture quality. Also, were they to add an optical zoom (like the Samsung G800), they would either need to reduce the sensor size (more noise), aperture (less light), or make the phone even thicker.