Comments on: My Week with the N82 http://expat.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/my-week-with-the-n82/ A blog of thoughts on power, culture, and technology in America, China, and points in-between. Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:00:53 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Nokia Bloglets « Like Cooking a Small Fish http://expat.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/my-week-with-the-n82/#comment-172 Nokia Bloglets « Like Cooking a Small Fish Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:55:22 +0000 http://expat.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/my-week-with-the-n82/#comment-172 [...] now well into month two of using the Nokia N82 and I still have a generally positive impression of the device. Some design quirks have started to [...] [...] now well into month two of using the Nokia N82 and I still have a generally positive impression of the device. Some design quirks have started to [...]

]]> By: Wesley Tanaka http://expat.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/my-week-with-the-n82/#comment-129 Wesley Tanaka Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:28:08 +0000 http://expat.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/my-week-with-the-n82/#comment-129 I should have read this page more carefully before purchasing the phone, because it took quite a lot of persistence to return it. =) I'm not 100% sure I understood them correctly, but I believe the Nokia Care tech and rep in Kunming were telling me that a software re-flash wouldn't work, which implies a hardware difference. I should have read this page more carefully before purchasing the phone, because it took quite a lot of persistence to return it. =)

I’m not 100% sure I understood them correctly, but I believe the Nokia Care tech and rep in Kunming were telling me that a software re-flash wouldn’t work, which implies a hardware difference.

]]> By: Wesley Tanaka http://expat.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/my-week-with-the-n82/#comment-128 Wesley Tanaka Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:25:07 +0000 http://expat.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/my-week-with-the-n82/#comment-128 <strong>Nokia N82</strong> I owned a Mainland Chinese Nokia N82 for two days, which I purchased for 4180 yuan ($575.84) from a Zhongyu Telecom embedded inside the Kunming Jin Ma Fang (金马坊) Park & Shop.Warning about the Chinese N82 Nokia N82

I owned a Mainland Chinese Nokia N82 for two days, which I purchased for 4180 yuan ($575.84) from a Zhongyu Telecom embedded inside the Kunming Jin Ma Fang (金马坊) Park & Shop.Warning about the Chinese N82

]]> By: Matthew http://expat.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/my-week-with-the-n82/#comment-125 Matthew Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:11:45 +0000 http://expat.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/my-week-with-the-n82/#comment-125 @ Shopgirl: the iPhone is a beautiful piece of hardware, but Chinese texting (and texting in general) is poor on the versions on the market today. There's also that whole no-warranty-in-China thing to worry about. @ Wesley: I'm not certain about that yet. If it's only disabled in software, I could bypass the block by flashing a new bios using Nemesis Software Suite. On the other hand, if it's disabled in the hardware, I'm obviously SOL. I seem to recall that the N95 had some models that were hardware-disabled and some that were software-disabled. The most annoying thing in this may not be the loss of the WiFi so much as the fact that Nokia doesn't discount the price of the N82 (or N95 or N93) to make up for this lost feature. @ Shopgirl: the iPhone is a beautiful piece of hardware, but Chinese texting (and texting in general) is poor on the versions on the market today. There’s also that whole no-warranty-in-China thing to worry about.

@ Wesley: I’m not certain about that yet. If it’s only disabled in software, I could bypass the block by flashing a new bios using Nemesis Software Suite. On the other hand, if it’s disabled in the hardware, I’m obviously SOL. I seem to recall that the N95 had some models that were hardware-disabled and some that were software-disabled. The most annoying thing in this may not be the loss of the WiFi so much as the fact that Nokia doesn’t discount the price of the N82 (or N95 or N93) to make up for this lost feature.

]]> By: Wesley Tanaka http://expat.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/my-week-with-the-n82/#comment-124 Wesley Tanaka Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:50:43 +0000 http://expat.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/my-week-with-the-n82/#comment-124 Do you know if the wi-fi is disabled in hardware or in software? Do you know if the wi-fi is disabled in hardware or in software?

]]> By: Shopgirl shanghai http://expat.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/my-week-with-the-n82/#comment-120 Shopgirl shanghai Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:47:16 +0000 http://expat.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/my-week-with-the-n82/#comment-120 beautiful, the phone but i still prefer iphone :P beautiful, the phone but i still prefer iphone :P

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