The N82 arrived. Oh my oh my. The spec list was impressive enough. Then I open the box and find an a/v cable – its got video-out capability. Then I dive into the UI, its fast. Then I dive into the browser, its like the E90, fairly slow but way better than my S40 browser. Then I rotate the device, the screen follows. Then I go into the map application, give it permission to use A-GPS and the damn think locks in about 10 seconds. I’m sitting at my desk for goodness sake. That’s not supposed to happen.

Nokia, please put the N82 inside an N810 casing. It will be my Carrypad.

Now to try the cam…….

Oh no. Give me a break. That’s far too good.

Noooo. N-Gage goodness.

Tested the GPS again and it locked in 10 seconds in the middle of my house.

Snakes. Awesome!

Oh YES, even the IMAP email client is fast  to Gmail. That beats the N810 with no problem.

UPnP shows my server….plays music….sounds OK on speakers (better than most UMPCs)

Streaming radio via TwonkyMedia server (UPnP again)……taking some time to start…….Nope. That doesn’t work. I bet it will stream direct from the media player so no need for streaming via a UPnP server.

DivX videos from media server. Nope. Thats not working.

Radio…works.

Podcast download app. Nice. Easy access to directories. Supports video podcasts. Just subscribed to Rocketboom. Just like that. Its updating over Wifi.

Video player has a YouTube application. Doesnt seem to work at the moment though.

So far, i’m rather impressed. I’ll write up something a little more structured after I’ve got totally familiar with it but for the price, its amazing!

Headset doesn’t fit in my ears. That damn annoying but the sound quality is terrible anyway. I hope that’s the headset and not the device…..yup…its the headset…phew.

Testing USB connection. Works. Will even act as a media device. Copying files to the device very slow. Could be a cheap SD card. Should be 5 times as fast as what I’m seeing though.

Playback quality of MP3 on my Koss Titaniums is sooooo nice.

OK. I’m going to have to leave it there. Maybe i’ll make a phone call with it now!!!

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