Nokia N82 First Impressions

Sat Dec 22 13:30:17 CST 2007

The Quickoffice viewer is built into the N82 phone.

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From: "Christopher Chaltain" <cchaltain at austin.rr.com>
To: "The Accessible Phones Discussion List" <blindphones at mosenexplosion.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 1:26 PM
Subject: Nokia N82 First Impressions

I was waiting for someone else to answer, but I haven't seen a response.
Here's what I've found out.

First, it doesn't look like the N82 ships with QuickOffice, even the
free viewer. I'm basing this on my review of the N82's specifications. I
don't have an N82 myself, and I could obviously be wrong about this. It
was my impression though that the N Series of Nokia phones would include
the free QuickOffice viewer.

Second, it appears that QuickOffice will work on the N82. It's listed on
quickOffice's web site as a supported phone. I'm not able to find the
free viewer for download anywhere though. I'm sure it used to exist,
since I installed it on my Nokia N75 a little while ago. Maybe the free
viewer was removed when QuickOffice 5.0 came out recently.

Finally, as I've posted in earlier messages, Talks--and I assume Mobile
Speak--don't work with QuickOffice 4.5, and according to the
representative I talked to at QuickOffice, it would be a few versions
before QuickOffice worked with Talks. I haven't been able to test
QuickOffice 5.0, since I don't see a free trial. Therefore, whether the
N82 supports QuickOffice or not would be irrelevant if you're a Talks user.

If anyone has any additional information, I'd be interested!

golden wrote:
> does it also support quick office such as word, sheet and presentation?
> thanks
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Jonathan Mosen <mailto:jmosen at mosen.org>
> *To:* blindphones at googlegroups.com
> <mailto:blindphones at googlegroups.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, December 21, 2007 11:20 AM
> *Subject:* Nokia N82 First Impressions
>
> I received my Nokia N82 yesterday, so for those who are
> considering this phone, here are just a few thoughts. There are
> really well written, comprehensive reviews of all that this phone,
> which is a smaller, improved N95, can do, so I won’t duplicate all
> of that here.
>
> But in brief, it has a 5 MP camera, GPS receiver, FM radio, HSDPA,
> and all the features you would expect from Symbian Third Edition.
>
> I loaded Mobile Speak onto the phone and was able to use Nokia’s
> very cool Switch application to transfer contacts, notes,
> bookmarks, calendar items, call history and other items directly
> from my Nokia E61I. Nokia really have done a nice job with this,
> just pair the two phones, select what you want copied across, and
> leave it alone for a few minutes. Nothing could be simpler.
>
> You can definitely feel the fast processor in this tiny candy-bar
> style phone. The phone boots up in about 20% of the time it takes
> the E61I to load, quite staggering. Applications load really quickly.
>
> As someone who has not used a Series 60 Feature Pac 1 phone
> before, it’s necessary to get used to the fact that submenu items
> can now also contain submenus under them. For example, when you go
> into the Tools menu, there is now a submenu available called
> utilities.
>
> Truphone have just released an N82-compatible version, so for
> those of you who use this brilliant service, you’re not out of
> luck. Call quality is very good, and they have just extended their
> free calls deal until the end of February, meaning you can call
> numbers in over 40 countries for no cost at all. A good thing for
> getting in touch with family and friends over the holidays.
>
> But the main purpose for writing this is to offer a blindness
> perspective on the keypad. I was a little apprehensive about this
> phone, because the reviews are mixed on the keypad. Firstly, the
> actual number pad is one of the most clearly spaced Nokia phones I
> have seen. The buttons feel quite unconventional, but they are
> very widely spaced and well raised. The ability to feel these keys
> is far better than my first Symbian phone, the 6600, and indeed
> the 6630.
>
> Beyond the number pad is quite a different story though. On the
> extreme left and right of the unit’s front are two very tiny
> vertical strips that are your call and end keys. Next to the call
> key is a large rectangular key that feels as if it’s a single key.
> It isn’t. Pressing the top of the key activates the left soft key,
> and the bottom of the key is the feature key, known in most phones
> as the menu key.
>
> The five-way key in the middle is very similar to that found on
> the 6630. It feels like a single key which you press in whatever
> direction you want to navigate, with the select button in the
> middle. I have found on a few occasions that I have navigated up
> or down when I wanted to press select, but I suspect I’ll get used
> to it in time.
>
> On the right of the five-way key is what feels like a single
> button with a raised dot in the middle. Actually these are three
> keys. The top part activates the right soft key, the middle part
> with the dot is serving as Mobile Speak’s key and I actually don’t
> know what function this key performs normally. The bottom part of
> the key is the clear key.
>
> So from a blindness perspective, this is a phone of contrasts,
> with very nicely pronounced number pad buttons, and function keys
> that may cause issues for those with dexterity issues or whose
> finger sensitivity has been diminished due to diabetes. If you
> don’t have an issue with dexterity though, this phone’s
> performance, form factor and feature set are very hard to beat.
>
> Note to US readers though, that this phone does not support the US
> 3G frequencies. Although it is a quad band phone for voice, and
> will therefore work on any GSM network, it only supports the
> NON-US 3G, as well as HSDPA, sometimes known as 3.5 G. We have
> this here in New Zealand and data is coming down at a ridiculously
> fast pace for a cell phone.
>
> Also a note for talks users that the current released build does
> not support this phone although a fix is in the works, so Mobile
> Speak is the only screen reader that currently works with it.
>
> Hope this helps anyone considering the N82.
>
> Jonathan
>
>
>
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