Finnish mobile phone giant, Nokia Corp. has this week moved to broaden the core appeal of its already expansive product range by whipping the covers of aesthetic expectancy off a sexily revamped version of its N82 device.
Clad from head-to-foot in stylish and appealing new jet black colouring, the N82 in black delivers a tempting mix of state-of-the-art imaging, integrated navigation and high-speed Internet connectivity to Nokia’s hugely popular line of Nseries handsets.
Ultimately, press blurb notwithstanding, it’s the N82 with a different sense of fashion values, and that’s about it.
Putting colour-based cynicism aside for a moment for the sake of those who know nothing about the N82, Nokia’s diminutive multimedia computer is supposedly “made for storytelling,” according to Nseries director Juha Kokkonen.
“As one of Nokia's leading-edge connected camera, the Nokia N82 in black captures people's journeys and discoveries,” adds the Nokia exec. “With built-in A-GPS it even helps people to find new places by pairing ‘contextual’ information with a wide array of connectivity features such as Wi-Fi and HSDPA. We make it easy for consumers to quickly share those moments as they happen.”
Specifically, that much-touted “storytelling” aspect is delivered by enabling users to “geotag” their captured images, allowing them to save not just by date but also by location too.
The N82 also includes various “compelling” photography features to further enhance the user experience, including a 5.0 mega pixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and a built-in Xenon flash.
It also bundles in interface advantages such as ultra-fast activation, autofocus and dedicated assist lamp, fast shot reloading, and DVD-like video capture.
Beyond the N82’s photography-based elements, it also offers up integrated A-GPS location for instant image tagging, along with swift content sharing opportunities via picture and/or image upload through the likes of Flickr, YouTube, Ovi and Share.
The Nokia N82 offers memory capabilities of up to 8GB thanks to its microSD memory card slot, which enables users to store up to 3,600 high-resolution images, 6,000 song tracks, or 5 hours of high-quality video footage.
Again, the only thing that’s truly different with this latest N82 is that it’s black styling takes its place beside the existing silver option. Still, banal as that may seem, the N82 is a pretty slick piece of kit, and glossy black is always preferable to silver, despite its near-magnetic attraction to fingerprints.
Nokia will be releasing the black N82 to retail in a few weeks, with a connected recommended retail price of around 400 Euros.
