My new phone — Nokia N82
I got a new cellphone yesterday. This is Nokia N Series phone — the N82.
For quite some time, I’d been thinking of replacing my existing phone (a Sony Ericsson W700i). I wanted to get a phone on which I could listen to music and watch videos (with the ability to rewind and fast-forward), and the camera was also important. My brother’s friend has an N73 Music Edition phone, and seeing that in action in Bangalore was what inspired me to also get an N Series phone.
The current N82 is an awesome phone and is ideal for all the things I mentioned above — it has 2 GB of storage, supports various audio and video formats, and has an excellent camera on board. By the way, the camera is comparable to a digital camera, and is superior to cameras found on most mobile phones. This is a 5 megapixel camera with a Carl Zeiss lens and a Xenon flash. It records MP4 video too, in a very decent resolution (640 × 480). I didn’t have much time to experiment with the phone yet, but I will get to that, given some time.
The phone can use an existing wireless network, hence, I was able to browse webpages on it by connecting to our home network (by the way, we got a wireless router recently, so that our Tata Indicom connection is made into a wireless signal, with encryption of course).
One of the things I want to do on top priority is to encode my drawing videos into MP4 files and upload them to the phone. This way, I can show them off to people very easily! Perhaps later, I can also check out some of the SDKs available for these phones. By the way, did you know, you can transcode video by using VLC media player? The File » Open dialog has a "Stream/Save" option by which you can convert video from one format into another.
Check out this comprehensive review of the phone. I read this before buying the phone, hence was very happy with my decision. The pictures in that review are of the grey/silver N82 model, whereas I got a black one. That’s me in the picture above, with my new phone. That photo was obviously not taken with the phone, but with the webcam on my laptop.
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