From the news release:

The Nokia N80 reflects and harmonizes work and personal life through leading on-the-go productivity tools, multimedia entertainment and mobile photography in a design that communicates success. Weighing only 134 grams, the compact yet feature-rich 3G multimedia device is packed with performance, providing fast internet access and convenient intuitive browsing as well as the possibility to send and receive emails at Wireless LAN (WLAN) speeds.

Multimedia connectivity in the Digital Home

With simple to use yet advanced UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) technology*, the pioneering Nokia N80 can be used to tap into the digital home network, acting almost as a remote control, enabling secure and convenient access to compatible PCs, audio equipment and TVs.** Consequently, images and video stored on the Nokia N80 or a compatible PC can be viewed wirelessly on the living room TV, while listening to music stored on the device through the living room audio system. Printing is now faster too, as Nokia N80 users can print wirelessly to any compatible UPnP-enabled home printer or printing kiosk.

Advanced, high speed internet in your pocket

Nokia N80 is the first quadband handset designed to work on 3G (WCDMA 1900 or 2100), WLAN, EDGE and four GSM bands (850/900/1800/1900), enabling broadband access from virtually anywhere on the planet. Incorporating the latest productivity functions in addition to 3G and EDGE data connectivity, people can use the Nokia N80 at more than 136,000*** public WLAN hotspots around the world to access the internet and send large emails or upload high quality images to an online service. Additionally, the Nokia N80 supports the new Nokia Web Browser with Mini Map, featuring a semi-transparent zoomed-out overall view of the web page, enabling users to intuitively navigate to all corners as well as see the web site as it was originally designed. With the experience further heightened by the device’s superior high definition display (352 x 416 pixels, up to 262,144 colors), which incorporates 90% more pixels than QVGA displays commonly found on smartphones and PDAs, the Nokia N80 also incorporates MPEG4 AVC decoding support for high quality video streaming.

High quality photos and videos in just a snap

With great ergonomics for image capture, the Nokia N80 is also an excellent mobile photography device for capturing, collecting and sharing moments and memories. In addition to incorporating a 3 megapixel camera with capture key for fast and stable camera activation, full-screen landscape capture utilizing the entire available high definition display, and a dedicated close-up mode switch, the Nokia N80 also features CIF video capture with inbuilt video stabilization. Moreover, the Nokia N80 incorporates large internal memory of up to 40 MB, which can be further expanded with a hot swap miniSD card of up to 2 GB, allowing users to store up to 1000 high quality images on the device.

Your choice of music on the go

Supporting a wide range of digital music formats, the Nokia N80 boasts a digital music player as well as stereo FM radio and support for Visual Radio****, which provides listeners with a richly interactive information channel, including information on the song and artist currently playing. Furthermore, thanks to the integrated UPnP technology, transferring music between the Nokia N80 and a compatible PC is easier than ever. Alternatively, users can transfer their favorite music via USB 2.0 by simply dragging and dropping from a compatible PC onto the device. As a result of its powerful music features, the Nokia N80 qualifies as a part of the Nokia XpressMusic device range. The XpressMusic feature brand makes it easy for consumers to identify Nokia products that provide a superior mobile music experience.

Nokia N80 Reviews

MobileBurn reviews the Nokia N80, and concludes, “Nokia’s N80 is a truly amazing mobile phone that has a couple of flaws - one of them quite serious. While the lack of a good voice dialing system is a shame, and the lack of a functional automatic keylock is annoying, it is the battery life issue that is going to be the potential deal breaker for many people. The brilliant features like WiFi, the web browser, the camera, and the music player will be of no use if the phone has no power. So if you are a heavy voice user, especially one that spends a lot of time in or travels through poor reception areas, the N80 probably won’t cut it for you.” Link.

PCMag reviews the Nokia N80 and concludes, “As a bleeding-edge device, the N80 stands alone in the market. Yes, the T-Mobile SDA is a terrific phone (and far more affordable), and it syncs with Windows Media Player—but it doesn’t have the N80’s high-res camera, UPnP, choice of top-notch Web browsers or stereo Bluetooth. It is also super-easy to get pictures off the camera and onto your PC. Pouring on the features—and making them work—earns this powerful phone an Editors’ Choice.” Link.

Mobile-Review reviews the Nokia N80 and finds the handset disappointing: “The product is aimed at enthusiasts in the first place, who don’t mind re-installing system over and over, battling with drivers, in order to make a quite useless application work. The device appeals to me firstly due to the newness of the software shell, possibility for installing new applications for 3rd edition and approving them. By the way, these programs are fading in numbers with every passing day, and they don’t put obstacles to comfortable usage of the device. Corporate users won’t find this smartphone perfect due to its mediocre life time and instability of many interesting applications, which make this solution inferior in comparison with other competitors.” Link.

CNET reviews the Nokia N80 and gives it an 8/10 rating, finding it offers a powerful multimedia phone. About the call quality: “We tested the quad-band (GSM 850/900/1800/1900; EDGE) Nokia N80 in San Francisco using Cingular’s service. Overall, call quality was good. We noticed a slight echo, and our callers reported the same, but this didn’t impede our conversation. Speakerphone quality was excellent. Our friends said there was no drop in sound quality, and volume was more than adequate. We also had no problem pairing the phone with the Logitech Mobile Traveller Bluetooth headset.”

MobileTechReview has a review up of the Nokia N80 and writes, “The Nokia N80 is a typical GSM Nokia with very strong reception. We tested the phone on the 850MHz band with Cingular and on the 1900MHz band with T-Mobile. It did equally well with both bands and typically got an even stronger signal than the Nokia 6682 which is itself a strong performer. Voice clarity and volume are excellent with no echo or excessive white noise … An ambitious smartphone that lives up to its feature set; everything works well— from smartphone features, to imaging, WiFi, Bluetooth and a very good camera. Even more unique is that the N80 is quite compact and very stylish, two things that can’t be said of many smartphones. The N80 boasts Nokia’s usual strong RF, great voice quality and solid Bluetooth. WiFi is reliable, the camera is sweet despite that shutter lag and the screen is simply gorgeous. The N80 has great ergonomics, a seemingly solid slider and overall good stability (our unit has the most recent firmware). Nokia’ s new web browser is simply excellent!” Link.

ElectricNews.Net has a review up of the Nokia N80 and writes, “this brings us back to the N80’s central flaw. In an effort to be everything to everyone it manages to do nothing really well. It symbolises the confusion of a mobile phone industry trying to come to terms with convergence. The verdict: the N80 is a good upgrade phone. It has good business functionality with an impressive array of features, but overall it fails to dazzle because it does too many things only adequately.” Link.

PDAStreet has a review up of the Nokia N80 and writes, “In our time with the N80, we noticed an annoying propensity to dawdle while switching between functions, leading us to think we hadn’t firmly pressed a button when in fact we had. It’s annoying, but not a deal breaker. Our other major complaint is the price. The phone’s MSRP is $599.99, and since it’s not currently offered by a U.S. carrier, that’s the about the price you should expect to pay when purchasing one. (The N80 is available through several resellers and at Nokia’s own online store.) Although the price is dear, the capable and well-rounded Nokia N80 is a great vade mecum for those as interested in imaging and music as in browsing the Web or making voice calls.” Link.

PCAuthority has a review of the Nokia N80 and writes, “The only downside is that the phone is very slow to respond. It’s a recent Nokia trait, and one present in almost every Symbian based phone we’ve seen from Nokia recently. The problem feels more pronounced with the N80 though. … We loved being able to select multiple SMS recipients from the address book. We loved the feel of the keys, the PC synchronisation software and the mountain of features. It’s just a little overwhelming and slow, which unfortunately steepens the learning curve.” Link.