N73 v N82

N73 v N82

I’ve wanted to get hold of the new Nokia N82 for a while now to see if it would be the obvious choice for an upgrade to the trusted Nokia N73. Personally I’ve had my N73 for 15 months and its done me well in all that time, I only recently upgraded to the N95 8GB on 3UK, mainly because the N73 was looking tatty and 3UK didn’t do the N82.

So the question is “Would I have upgraded to the N82 if 3UK had it”, well the answer is a great big “YES”.

Why would you upgrade to the N82? If you are like myself and loved your N73, the N82 is the N73 on steroids. Everything has been pumped up on it, the camera has been improved from 3.2MP to 5MP, the internal memory and RAM has been increased, it’s got added Wifi and GPS, it has a 3.5mm Stereo Headphone plug, so you can use your own headphones without the need for an adaptor and it has built-in RotateMe, turn the N82 on its side and the screen orientation changes automatically.

The increase in internal memory and RAM would have been enough to win me over as this was the No.1 pet hate I had with the N73, I was restricted to the number of applications I could have open at one time. Those days are gone now, as the N82 can handle anything you throw at it. You can even have apps running using the 3G connection and others using the wifi connection, totally awesome!

Only dislikes about the N82, well they are minor, but the removal of the PEN key, I know you can do the same by holding the # key, but there are a number of S60 apps designed to use the PEN key which makes it a pain to use (I’ve manage to get round most of them, but I can’t see the reasoning for Nokia removing it?) and the mini-USB connector on the N82 is different to that on the N95 and N800/N810, so an extra cable to carry around if you want to connect to your Laptop/PC.

Apps for the N82

The N82 software is S60 3^rd Edition Feature Pack 1 the same as the N95, so most apps will work on it. The only ones I’ve found so far not working are Yahoo!GO and Google Search. I’ve downloaded and installed nearly everything I had on the N95 8GB onto the N82 (well after I had a slight problem installing, but think that was down to me connecting via Wifi and at the same time downloading a 700MB movie via the N800). If you can’t find a N82 version of an application, just install the N95 or N95 8GB version.

What’s installed on the N82:-

Nokia Internet Radio Player v1.02

Nokia Share Online v3.0

Nokia Sports Tracker v1.70

Shozu v4.0

Screenshot v2.8 (Change settings to use “C” to take screenshot)

Jaiku v0.80

GMail v1.5

Gmaps v2.07

Sky Anytime v5.0

MobiTubia v1.76 build 3

Fring v3.30

Palringo v0.96 (11)

LCG Slick v0.38

Opera Mobile v8.65

Opera Mini v4.0

Shazam ID v1.0

TunIn.FM v1.0

Coreplayer v1.1.2

LCG X-plore v1.21

SymTorrent v1.3

Epocware Handy Taskman v2.01

Epocware Handy Weather v5.01