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[excerpt]Yesterday I wrote about the main differences between the iPhone and the Nokia N82, trying to highlight pros and cons of both phones.

Since the Nokia N82 is considered the successor of the Nokia N95, is it really a good upgrade for any N95 owner?
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Nokia N82

Network
Both gives you all you need, i.e. WCDMA2100(HSDPA), EGSM900, GSM850/1800/1900 MHz.

Form Factor
Personally, even if the sliding keyboard is functional with the N95, the “N73-like” form factor is my favorite. A dumb comparison: it’s as we have a combo-box drop down menu or any single option available by one single click. Having the keyboard at your fingertips, is a thumb-up for the N82. In addition, the N82 is thicker and lighter (not much indeed).

Display
The N82 integrates a 2.4″ LCD QVGA (240 x 320 pixels) TFT color display with up to 16.7 million colours, against the 2.6” of the N95. Little bit smaller, maybe due to the visible keyboard. A hot feature? The Automatic Screen Rotation. Thanks to an accelerometer, the display rotates when you rotate the phone. You can have a look at how it works in this video.

Keyboard
Honestly, I prefer the N95. The N82’s keyboard has very small keys, not really comfortable.

Camera
Both phones are equipped with a 5Mpix camera with Carl Zeiss optics, exactly with the same photographic capabilities. The flash of the N82, instead, is xenon-based, hence should produce brightest pictures. I haven’t tried it yet.

GPS
That natively integrated in the N82 is better than the GPS in the first versions of the N95, since it is a Assisted Global Positioning System. Anyway, you can get this function by upgrading the N95 to the latest firmware version. The AGPS, in a nutshell, uses the data network to assist the “traditional” GPS in calculating the position correctly, so a faster operation and a more accurate position.

Memory
160MB of the N95 against the 100MB of the N82. An interesting feature? The microSD slot of the N82 is hot-swappable, so you can change your card without having to turn your phone off.

Battery
Thumb up for the N82, that integrated the BP-6MT with 1050mAH against the 950 (BL-5F) of the N95. Should be definitely better.

All that said, is an upgrade worth something? If you must choose a new phone, go for the N82. Anyway, I’m fine with my N95.

luca filigheddu, n82, n95, nokia