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I bought my dream phone a couple of days ago. It’s the cheapest I can find in the market. I had a hard time looking for one because I wanted the Black edition which is still quite limited.

The beauty of the N82 would be best appreciated on the inside – it’s rich features - rather than its physical appearance. You won’t be wowed by the looks of this Nseries device from Nokia. It’s a normal candy bar phone with a 2.4 inch screen and a small keypad. The two stereo speakers are on the right side. The most priced possession of the N82 lies at its rear, the 5.0 mega pixel camera with Carl Zeiss Optics and Tessar® lens accompanied by a Xenon flash and AF assist lamp (which illuminates objects in the dark and helps the camera to adjust automatically for better images). And because of this, the N82 is the phone to beat on almost all website reviews that I have read.

Thought most of the features of the N82 are the same with other Nseries devices such as the N81 and N95, it is believed that Nokia made the N82 to repackage the features and appeal to a different market – maybe those that are not happy with a slider phone or those that does not want a bulky mobile phone.

Aside from the great camera that the N82 has, another difference with its 5 mega pixel competitors is the price. The N95 is slightly more expensive while the LG Viewty is priced P3,000 to P5,000 higher.

The N82 is a quad band phone which makes it an ideal phone to bring any where in the world. Plus it is HSDPA – 3.5G (as opposed to 3G – 3.0) along with GPS and EDGE. This means faster connection when you surf the Internet or better video reception during 3G video calls. Speaking of Internet, this gadget is Wi-Fi capable which lets you access the web faster anywhere there is a Wi-Fi hotspot. The built in browser is dynamic and enables you to view web pages as they are seen on a normal computer screen. Other connectivity options include Bluetooth, USB 2.0 via the mini USB port, a 3.5 mm stereo headphones output and TV out function.

As a portable multimedia, the N82 you can put supported audio, video, and image files into its 100 mb shared internal memory or on its 2 GB microSD memory. But if you think that’s not enough, you can replace it with a microSDHC memory card (currently maximum of 8GB available in the market).

Meanwhile, there are other not so used features of this mobile phone. Such as the Assisted Global Positioning System (A-GPS) function and Push-to-talk which makes your mobile phone act like a two way radio. Who knows, we might be able to use these by year 2010.

With a size of 112 x 50 x 17 mm and weights 114g, this feature packed mobile phone will definitely fit your needs and wants.

My review of my very own Nokia N82 shall be posted over at Migs Mobile Network [www.migsmobile.net]