Decision Time: Nokia N82 Review, to publish or not to publish?
By Stefan Constantinescu on Thursday, November 29th, 2007 at 11:43 PM PST In NSeries, Nokia, Reviews, Symbian
I’m in the last stretch of my Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N82 review titled “Nokia N95, N95 8gb and N82: The evolution of the multimedia computer,” when all of a sudden my N82 breaks. I wanted to take a picture so I took the phone out of my pocket, flipped the shutter down and this is what I’m stuck with:
Now I tried a few things. I *#7370# ‘d the phone, that didn’t do anything. I tried removing the memory card, nada. I tried power cycling, again, nothing.
The review is sitting here on my laptop and apart from some edits and pictures that have to be inserted it’s basically done. I’m quite upset, I was in the zone, banged out close to 3800 words and now this happens.
You’re call IntoMobile readers, publish the review or no?
07:45 in Finland, managed to pull an all nighter, see you in a few hours. Please leave any tips you might have for resolving this.
Edit: The other option would be to wait until I get a replacement, that can take up to a week. Tough call, I’m probably going to just stick this review up on the net after I edit it once I wake up.
Update: Closing the comments to this post, I’ve had around 6 comments made by people trying to impersonate me. I’ve banned their IP address from being able to post, but I have to ask: Why do you have to be such an asshole?
That little ‘power bar’ in the top left corner only normally appears when you initially open the camera application (According to the N82 connected via Nokias RDA)
Looks like a flash charge, maybe? Might be a hardware problem
Hey Stefan.. publish it man .. would like to see a review
I say publish it…
Is the phone stuck in camera mode? Or does it freeze every time you open the camera lens? You can always try re-flashing it via the NSU
remove battery?
Reload the firmware
Yeah publish it man , this issiue will be fix later.
I want to know littel about N82 superphone
Hi!
Publish it… I want to know your impression about this phone…
Publish it .. and let`s hope those crashes won`t be familiar to n82 in the future.
If it’s Symbian crashing, the routine is: remove battery, wait a short while, reinsert, boot.. Yes, publish anyway!
If all the above do not work, try connecting via usb, open nokia software updater and follow on screen promts. Hopefully this should factory reset the hardwere and sort the camera.
I also think you should publish your review.
Thank you for your hard work.
please publish.
Hey Stefan,
I say, Publish the review. Onde crash doesn’t make your review less believable, or does it?
This is something I have never faced but there may be some fault in the mobile, I am not expert thats why I can not say anything clever here. But I would like to see the review which you are going to post next.
publish it dude. just add the other stuff at a later time.
please publishhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just publish it!
Do it! =)
Haha ok
Have not the Gin tonics leave your body yet 
Well the last time you have wrote lott of negative stuff about Nokia
When they fix updates you say damm my Sony Ericsson have better etc. Why you so angry 
two stefans? ok, classic case of split personality..
Ciao Stefan,
yes, publish the review, very curious about your opinion on this phone.
Alessandro
OK, the real Stefan here, someone is simply typing my name into the comment box and trying to pass it off as me.
Want to know that these previous messages were fake?
“Guys I must tell you… I cannot keep the secret
Last night I was so drunk that I fucked a gorgeous finnish bitch and the vodka from my glass went down on the N82. Man, I’m crazy 
I love you NOKIA !!!”
“There’s a fake user who writes comments with my name. It’s not the first time when he does that. I will erase his comments.
Anyway, the phone is fucking great. I will release the review this afternoon. Right now I’m a litlle drunk
Stay tuned.
PS. Nokia rules !”
“Sorry guys but I’m very angry. I wrote seven pages of crap and now the phone is bricked. I don’t know what to do… If I’ll puplish a negative review, what will happen with my image in front of Nokia…
”
“I will stick the review deep right up in my ass
”
Watch them get deleted right now and their IP addresses banned.
Isn’t that much better
Anyway, I want to emphasize, this isn’t “a simple crash.”
My phone just refuses to take pictures anymore. Period.
I’d love if you publish the review!
Please do it!
And good luck with the N82.
Please, publish the review…
We are all eager to see it!
what do you all want to know about n82? that’s good of nothing? it’s clear that the review is not a pozitive one for n82