So, you think you know the camera phone? However incongruous putting together a camera and a phone may seem (and we readily admit that it is) don’t knock it until you take a gander at this sweet gadget.

Finally, there’s a camera phone good enough to replace your trusty digital point-and-shoot. The Nokia N82 not only piles on the megapixels — five of them — it comes equipped with Carl Zeiss optics and a bright Xenon flash so you’ll get crisp pics both in the boardroom and while on your surfboard. And unlike most other slow-as-molasses camera phones, this one actually takes a picture when you press the shutter button, thanks to its autofocus capability.

Frame your masterpieces and show them off using the N82’s generous 2.4-inch display, or upload them instantly to Web sites like Flickr via Wi-Fi. The N82 doubles as a decent camcorder, too; it can record up to 84 minutes of 30 frames–per-second footage to the device’s included memory card.

Just in case you needed an excuse to get out and shoot stuff, the included Nokia Maps app inside the N82 works in tandem with assisted GPS technology to provide turn-by-turn directions to more than 15 million points of interest in more than 150 countries. You can even send routes to your lost officemates right from the phone. This four-ounce metal stunner also surfs the Web and plays music, and (in a nod to a certain phone whose name begins with i) sports an orientation sensor that rotates the user interface automatically between horizontal and portrait mode based on how you’re holding the phone. And to think you once had a camera that only took pictures.

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