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Review: Nokia N82

Nokia N82 8/10 Learn How We Rate Wired 3.5-mm headphone jack. Side-mounted hard buttons enable rapid phone/camera switching. Integrated Flickr/Vox photo sharing. Quality 640 x 480-pixel video (at 30 fps!). Sliding lens cover protects the goods. Tired TXenon flash can yield spotted snaps. No USB charging. Tiny keypad buttons. Accelerometer is a bit sensitive. Buy […]
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Rating:

8/10

WIRED
3.5-mm headphone jack. Side-mounted hard buttons enable rapid phone/camera switching. Integrated Flickr/Vox photo sharing. Quality 640 x 480-pixel video (at 30 fps!). Sliding lens cover protects the goods.
TIRED
TXenon flash can yield spotted snaps. No USB charging. Tiny keypad buttons. Accelerometer is a bit sensitive.

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When we first handled the N82 in March, it was the best phonecam on the market. Guess what? It still is. With exceptional optics, xenon flash and a competent image-editing suite, it would be a decent stand-alone 5-megapixel camera. Throw in GPS, web browsing, Bluetooth, WiFi and a music player, and you're holding a pocketable stunner that trumps most of the phones we tested — in any category.