Nokia N80 has been announced along with Nokia N92 and N71. Nokia N80 looks to be the prominent one because of its relatively small size and a sliding form factor. Nokia has considered the sliding form factor again after many years and it seems to be a great idea as every manufacturer has now its separate range of slider phones.

Features

Nokia N80 is unique in various aspects. Its specifications target it as an integral part of your digital wireless home. The presence of wifi with UPnP standard is admiring. Consider that you send music from you phone to your hifi system and control it, download and synchronize music files between your mobile and pc, view the taken pictures on your tv or computer screen, print the taken images. All this be done wirelessly and on a compatible standard !! . UPnP has a pottential to further grow as a standard of future wireless needs.

Nokia N80 is housing a huge 352 x 416 lcd. As the lcd size in inches is small with a great amount of pixels, the lcd quality becomes very sharp. Built in 40Mb memory is just a formality, but you can satisfy your needs with the mini sd slot. Nokia N80 also has a 3Mp camera for taking still and videos, while a 0.3 mp camera for video conferencing. But, one may miss the Carl Zeis optics and auto focus feature like in Nokia N90.

Browsing

Browsing functionalities have been enhanced on such a screen. The mini map feature will allow you to view the whole webpage in one view and then concentrate on the portion in which you are interested in.

Conclusion

Perhaps Nokia has been trying to perfect its N series with a sliding form factor smartphone and we can say that Nokia has done well. The smartphone is expected to be released in Q1 2006 with a price of 500 Euro. One of the main feature that Nokia has been lacking in its smartphones is the processing speed. Most of the people have complaints that the cellphone takes lot of time to respond after sometime or while using multi tasking. This would be enough to drive the buyers away and Nokia should really work on this issue. Moreover, with such massive features that rest of your media starts depending upon your phone, its necessary that the battery should survive upto a reasonable time. These features are decided practically rather than theoretically. In then end, I would just say that Nokia N80 has the potential