That’s right, from tonight I will be travelling to the Kruger National Park, to the Limpopo Transfrontier Park, and then to Maputo.

Of course, this is only to test the potentials of the N81 8GB Special Edition and the Nokia N82. I’m not going on holidays or anything.

I will hook up the N82 to my headrest monitor and as the headrest unit has a FM transmitter, I will hook up the cables to it, and select the frequency in the car. I do know the directions, but let me see if the GPS application knows it as well. Bedfordview to Crocodile Bridge Gate…it’s going to be few hours and I don’t think that the phone will survive, therefore I will switch off 3G and switch off the backlight, as I will be looking at my 7″ monitor.

The N81 8GB will only be tested soundwise, as I have tested everything else…and of course some NGage as well.

To add up, nothing better than a comparison between the N82’s camera and the N95’s. I will geotag every image, and track my route with Nokia Sports Tracker.

In most areas I won’t have internet coverage so I will rely on the available and scarce, most probably none, hotspots.

To keep the blog updated, I’ll take my tablet PC along, although I will have difficulty in find hotspots in Maputo, nevermind in the national parks.

It’s three days, lots of fun, and lots of testing as well.

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Well this time it was the N82 and Symbian itself, the N82 winning a much expected ‘Best Mobile Imaging Device in Europe 2008′ by the Technical Image Press Association, and Symbian gaining two Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in the fields of Innovation and International Trade.

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Motorola had truly bad results, Nokia wasn’t too great, but Samsung and Sony Ericsson are the stars from mobile world, with great earnings and good profits.

Today (I mean, yesterday, at Seoul, Korea), Samsung presented first quarter earnings, and in my perspective with a great outlook, with a good sales increase and beating estimates.

Yesterday (I really don’t know if I should say today or yesterday, but I am talking about the last market activity), Samsung shares rose by 4,5% to 690,000.000, with good results. As that, Monday might be a great day to the Korean Market with Samsung impulsing the whole market (Samsung have capability to conduct Korean market, as its company dimension and quantity of shares, just like LG), after earnings from liquid-crystal displays jumped to a record and profit from mobile phones surged to a four-year high. The company, whose chairman is stepping down after being charged with tax evasion and breach of duty, is projected by analysts to sustain growth as chip prices recover in the second half. Just look at the profit and look at the chairman situation Let me remind you that the Korean Index, KOSPI, reached new 3 month highs.

First-quarter net income rose 37 percent to 2.19 trillion won ($2.2 billion), Asia’s largest maker of chips, flat screens and mobile phones, said in a statement today. Profit and sales at the Suwon, South Korea-based company beat analyst estimates.

One analyst, from this journal, Forbes, had this information:

‘The first-quarter results are really impressive. I will revise my target price for the stock again, given the company faces better seasons ahead,’ said Song Myung-sub, an analyst at CJ Investment & Securities.

He upgraded his six-month target price for Samsung Electronics to 740,000 won from 610,000 won just a month ago.

I remind you, shares closed at 690,000.000.

Have nice and good investments and also a nice weekend.

Among us mobile bloggers, we have been discussing how the N95 affected Nokia, the good and bad ways. Of course this is the fruit from a conversation started by one of the respected Symbian-Guru members, Rita El Khoury, better known as Dotsisx.

The whole debate started in Jaiku as an inspiration for one of Dotsisx’s posts, and it developed since by including posts from people from all around the blogosphere, including me. The discussion had gone so big that Dotsisx decided to divide her post in two, so for now we only have the expected Part 1 of “Did the N95 kill Nokia or Revive it?”. I most definitely can’t wait for Part 2, so go over to Symbian-Guru and post your thoughts or elaborate your thinking in the Jaiku itself, and let us know what’s your mind as well. Here’s the link for Dotsisx’s post, our Jaiku, Nokia Conversations’s post, and I leave you with the input I had given:

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[Written by our financial expert, MH]

Finally we had Motorola Results, that were worst than what I was thinking of, and with that Motorola will probably continue going to lower levels.

Let me resume the story and tell you what really happened and why Motorola stocks (NYSE:MOT) didn’t fall more than 3%. and why they can tomorrow fall more than that.