02 May 2008

I ♥ the N82

I recently purchased a second-hand Nokia N82 on eBay. I don't mind that it's second-hand, I don't mind that it's got scratches on it, I don't even mind that it was unexpectedly a Hong Kong model so there's Chinese key-strokes next to each number on the keypad and that I can't get the latest firmware update yet*. Is it wrong to love a phone this much?

My favourite features are:
  • the 5mp camera with Xenon flash
  • WLAN connection
  • accelerometer
  • GPS
My favourite applications so far are:
  • Panoman - an application that takes photos then automatically stitches them together to create panoramic pictures. I've only used this once, in my living room. I'll play around with it more this weekend and post a more interesting photo then.
  • Nokia Maps - I haven't used it to try to navigate anywhere yet, but I love it when the GPS can tell me where I am.
  • Nokia Sports Tracker - I've only used this a few times but it's so cool. It uses the internal GPS and tracks my bike ride/walk/drive/whatever. You can also take photos with the phone and upload them and they'll use the geo-tag to place the photos on the correct position of my route's map. Here's one I prepared earlier (although some of the pictures aren't in the right place because I had paused the application so it didn't tag properly)
  • Photo Detagger - This application can remove the geo-tagged details from photos if I'm paranoid about someone working where I am/was.
  • Share Online 3.0 - After taking a photo, I can automatically upload the photos to Flickr and Ovi in about 3 clicks. There is another application that supports upload to more sites. I'm sure I'll be checking that out sometime soon!
My "I can live with them" annoyances:
  • the cable plugs into the side which makes it hard to hold while recharging
  • the mini-USB connection is a slightly different shape to standard mini-USB cables
  • the N-Series PC Suite
Anyway, just thought I'd share. Now I'm going back to hug my phone.

*[edit] I just checked the Nokia site and my phone model can now update the firmware! I'msohappy! I'll be doing that tonight!
*[edit] Firmware successfully upgraded. All is good.

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