The N82 DOES Stand On Its Own
One of my main complaints over the N82 (and the N73, previously) was that for an imaging device, it would not stand on its own, for taking timed pictures. To me, this seems like such a common sense function, and it has been overlooked. At Nokia World, I had the opportunity to question the N82 Product Managers about this, and was told that originally, the design was for it to be able to stand on its own. However, along the way, form gave way to function, and the sides were sloped to give a better in-hand feeling. I took the opportunity to suggest to them 2 solutions, one of which was some sort of pull-out stand, just a small piece of plastic which would offer some stability.
I totally did not think to actually try this out, and was schooled today when I just saw, via WOM World, that LonelyBob posted a video showing how you could use the memory card door as a small pull-out stand, enabling the N82 to stand on its own, horizontally, to take timed photos! Unfortunately, I don’t have my N73 handy to try it on that device, but any owners are encouraged to give it a go and leave a comment.
Great job, LonelyBob! You’ve managed to school the Guru!
I can confirm that the N73’s memory card cover has no effect at-all. It doesn’t even touch the surface.
However, I found a different way for the N73 to stand on it’s side. If you have a wrist strap attached like I do, Just move this around the back of the device and voila!
As said in the above comment N73’s card slot is at the bottom unlike N82’s! so cant really do the same thing!
Good call, guys, I totally forgot that the N73 was like every other mobile, with all the connections and whatnot at the bottom of the phone.
I hope you’re ready for another lesson. It took me all of about 3 minutes to figure out how to get this one working. I’ll post again in a few I stole the ol N95-2 to film this that I am not supposed to have until Christmas. I risked life and limb for the sake of the S60 community…
Well maybe I’ll post it tomorrow seeing as how YouTube is taking over 20 minutes to process this 54 second clip..
Ok lets try embedding it, not sure if this works in WP’s comments, I’ll link to it too in case this doesn’t work.
Here is the hardlink in case:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRQkfUBZ5zM
Nice video about N73… but you have to take out the memory card! To take a photo for example you will need it! Instead, you can just put underneath the phone a piece of paper folded properly to hold the device!!!
Yes, it works. altough can’t see the video on the webpage from work.
This rocks !!!
I have found that the easiest way to make N73 stand is to use a coin with the same way that malaeum is using a memorycard. Ofcourse this trick demands that you have coins nearby, but I think that is the case with many people.
In my home I found another way to make N82 to stand on its own without the trick with the memory card slot.I don’t know exactly how it’s done but it is probably due to the angle or something like that.Excuse me for the video quality but it was filmed with Nokia 6630.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NupiYEMh-Nc
Stop hurting the phone! =)
Cool video tip,
Its the right way up for photos too.