Symbian-Freak has an early review of the Nokia N82. What makes this new Nokia Nseries device stands out? It’s the first Nseries phone with bright xenon flash for better night photos. But that’s not all! It also features auto screen rotation that Symbian-Freak claims to be better than the iPhone!

The rotation is definitely smoother and looks better with the iPhone, actually to be precise with an iPhone you can actually see the rotation while the Nokia just switch from one to another mode without any kind of transition when rotating.

Nokia N82 with a shiny metallic look.

I would like to get my hands on this phone to see how good the flash is. People might be disappointed that the screen is only 2.4 inches compared to 2.6 on my recently reviewed Nokia N95 (aka N95-3 or N95 NAM version), and the 2.8 inch screen of the Nokia N95 8GB.

Screen auto-rotation is cool, but it won’t be a unique feature to the Nokia N82 because of RotateMe 2.0 software available soon to the Nokia N95 with a built-in accelerometer.

Auto Rotate settings on the Nokia N82

Availability and pricing is still unclear, but according to Ricky Cadden, the Nokia N82 specifications follows:

• Dimensions: 112 x 50.2 x 17.3 mm
• Weight: 120 g [Target]
• Memory: Up to 100 MB in-build, support for hot swappable MicroSD card (1GB in-box)
• Talk time: GSM: 280min, WCDMA: 180min (Target)
• Standby time: GSM: 270hrs WCDMA: 250hrs (Target)
• Main Display: 2.4″QVGA 240×320, 16M colors
• 5MPix, Autofocus, up to 20 x digital zoom. Real Xenon flash. Integrated camera protection
• Secondary camera: CIF

I have a guess that the Nokia N82 will be announced next week on November 13th, because of an email invitation I received. More details on that in the next post.