NOKIA HAS UNVEILED the successor to its popular N95 mobile phone. The N82 fea¬tures a 5MP camera and a built-in GPS navigation sys¬tem, plus many of the other features included on the N95. However, the new N82 has a candy-bar shape that makes the device feel a bit less bulky than the N95, which used a slider design.
Like the N95, the new phone has a 5MP camera with a Carl Zeiss lens and can capture MPEG-4 YGA video at 30 frames per sec¬ond. A new addition is a full Xenon flash, compared to the lower-quality LED-type flash in the N95. Sony Ericsson put a similar flash in its new K850i Cyber-shot phone. "Nokia seems to be building up its camera credentials," said John Devlin, a research direc¬tor with IMS Research in the UK. "The N82looks like a cam¬era phone with other added capabilities, whereas the N95 is a more of an all-rounder."



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The N82 is a "very good, impressive" product, he said, one that could tempt buyers who weren't attracted to the N95. "One of the complaints about the N95 was that it's a bit bulky," he said. Switching to the candy-bar design made the phone a bit
longer than the N95, at l1.2cm compared to 9.9cm, but the N82 is a bit thinner and weighs 109 less. The newer phone uses a 2A-inch QYGA color display, com¬pared to a 2.6-inch QYGA display on the N95.

The N82 connects to GSM and high-speed HSDPA net¬works, and has built-in 802.llbJgWi-Fi and Bluetooth. It comes with a full web brows¬er and various e-mail and cal¬endaring applications. Nokia has bundled some maps with the device for use with the GPS, and more can be downloaded for just the price of the data transfer, Nokia said. Nokia described the N95 as the N82's "predecessor", but it wasn't clear if that means the N95 will be phased out.