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MultitasKING – N82

By - Vaibhav Sharma On 5 March 2008 10 Comments

 MultitasKING

I currently am trialling a Nokia N82 and so far I am thrilled with the device; more on that later. Lets cut to the real deal now, as you may be aware the N95 is my primary phone and with the latest v20 firmware it allows me to multi task to a lets say decent extent. It is not something I would settle with but something that gets the job done.

Enter the N82, as usual the first thing I did was use Switch to get all my stuff over, download the absolute essentials like Gmail and Maps and generally set it up. Since I am somewhat obsessed with RAM conservation I decided to install Device Status and see for myself how much rope to I have to play with, on launch may be with one other application running I had about 86 MB which is beautiful, certainly the way all S60 phones should go.

As a practical test I decided to see how useful can all that RAM be, I am pleased to say that not only is it useful but it will also satisfy the geek in you. I actually ran each and every application I had on the phone including Web, Music Player, Ngage, two Gmail clients (for the java), another game, basically everything and not one crashed or the phone hung. Have a look at the screenshots and see for yourself!

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It looks as if I missed out the IM client, but nevertheless I still had about 6MB of RAM left so I figure that wouldn’t have been a problem. This is great from the consumer point of view as even people new to S60 who do not know that the red button only minimises the application and doesn’t close it will not have out of memory errors, it is difficult to imagine anyone using all of these together at a point in time. Plus the next time they open the application and it pops up immediately, it will be a pleasurable experience. The N82 also has pretty good standby time and leaving a few applications such as contacts, calender, music player running in the background doesn’t affect it much. Kudos on giving the Nseries this direction Nokia.

All this just bears testimony to the N82 being the multitas’KING’!

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  • Nokia N95 » Blog Archive » MultitasKING - N82 said:

    [...] Read the rest of this great post here [...]

  • Nseries WOM World » Blog Archive » N82 multitasking said:

    [...] Vaibhav Sharma over at The Symbian Blog has got his hands on an N82, and he’s been putting it through its paces. [...]

  • Sameer said:

    Those screenshots are delightful I had no idea my phone was that cool!

  • Prabhakar said:

    ‘MultitasKING’ sure looks great and by the way nice name dude.. i personally am waiting for the black N82.

  • Ali said:

    The N95 8GB is also one of the beneficiaries of the increased RAM and can multi task similarly…nokia has overcome the problem of having insufficient RAM quite well,which until recently was a major issue with all Nokia S60 devices….now it boasts a stability which very few devices can challenge….

  • Vaibhav Sharma said:

    I completely agree. Stability is something they are becoming good at amd I hope they continue with the RAM generosity!

  • Ali said:

    Yea i hope the same….also have u tried playing Xvid/Divx encoded videos at native resolution on the N82?….

  • Vaibhav Sharma said:

    Yep, Using Core Player and I’m glad to say it works well!

  • Reflections - Nokia N82: Usability, Multimedia and Performance « The Symbian Blog said:

    [...] The N82 has ample RAM on bootup and I could run every single application on the phone without an issue; so much so that I gave it the moniker – ‘multitasKING‘. [...]

  • tahir said:

    BUDDY I READ YO ARTICLE N GOT IMPRESSED AND BOUGHT N82 BLACK WHILE GIVING MY N93. BUT I AM SAD THAT I CANT EVEN MULTITASK WITH 2 SIS APPL. THE PHONE HANGS N I HAVE TO RESTART MANUALLY :( JUST TRIED TO CONTACT NOKIA CAREBUT THEY SAYING NO PROBS. WISH I CAN FIND A CURE. PLS HELP ME THANKS

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